Progress “With Chinese Characteristics”: A Threat to the Tibetan People?

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A gigantic hydroelectric project is being pursued in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, in an area that is both sacred and geologically risky.

by Marco Respinti

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Beginning in July 2025, following its approval at the end of the previous year, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is building a massive $167 billion hydropower project in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Planned to have a total capacity of around 60 gigawatts when construction is completed, expected in the early 2030s, the project comprises five cascading stations along the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which in India becomes the Siang and then the Brahmaputra. It is a pharaonic enterprise, but it poses a dire question: Will the Communist regime of the PRC pursue it even at a potentially enormous human cost?

The whole project can in fact be a time bomb. An article in “The South China Morning Post” (SCMP) mentioned &ldquo...

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