China’s Mega Dam on Yarlung Tsangpo Threatens Tibet, Northeast India, and the Himalayas

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Regardless of the long standing protests, concerns, and speculations, the People’s Republic of China has officially announced the beginning of the construction of the world’s largest mega dam at the bend of Yarlung Tsangpo in the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau. The Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced this with an official statement in July 2025. The site of this mega dam is very close to India-Tibet border in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese side defended the launch of the widely debated and most ambitious hydropower project of the Chinese government, in one of the most ecologically sensitive, seismically active zones of the Tibetan plateau by pacifying New Delhi and Dhaka with reports that supposedly proves very low or minor impacts on the downstream population and ecology of India and Bangladesh.

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