By building a gigantic dam just before the river exits Chinese-controlled territory, Beijing gains the power to manipulate cross-border flows.

While the Yarlung Tsangpo constitutes 56 per cent of the Brahmaputra’s length, it contributes only about 15 percent of the ...

With delicate diplomatic handling, this 'project of the century' can build goodwill and help South Asia's water-dependent economies When Premier Li Qiang broke ground for the construction of the ...

China's Tsangpo hydropower dam in Tibet raises concerns in India and downstream nations over water flow and environmental impact.

Climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia. By Genevieve Donnellon-May September 17, 2022 Credit: Depositphotos ...

Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...

The authorities have not said how many people will be displaced and how it will affect the ecosystem. Read more at ...

BEIJING - China has moved forward with plans to build the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in ...

At over 4,000 metres above sea level on the Yarlung Tsangpo, Tibet’s sacred river that becomes the Brahmaputra in India, the ...

The Chinese Communist Party is looking to control the next Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual head under Tibetan Buddhism, to legitimize its 1950 occupation of Tibet, a remote land in the world's ...

In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local bus, hitchhiking, and finally on a second-hand motorcycle, which I rode over 17,000-foot passes so remote I felt like ...

Millions of people depend on water from the glaciers of High-Mountain Asia. South-eastern Tibet, however, has some of the most rapidly melting glaciers in Asia. This is due to less summer snowfall ...