The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will ...

After Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu has raised concern about China's plan to construct the largest hydropower dam in eastern Tibet ...

India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter ... What's needed is a "comprehensive water-sharing agreement between China and India", said Rouhin Deb in The Indian ...

even as tensions between the two Asian countries simmer over Beijing’s plans for a mega dam on the Tibetan Plateau. According to China’s foreign ministry, foreign vice-minister Sun Weidong ...

Mutual mistrust': China and India are a long way from a water-sharing agreement. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang ...

known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the power of China's Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's biggest.

China’s plan to build the dam in Medog County, potentially utilising the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon with its dramatic elevation drop of over 2,000 metres near the U Bend, raises pressing concerns.

In December 2024, China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India.

China’s state-owned Three Gorges Corporation has decided to withdraw from the Grand Inga Dam project, a massive hydroelectric initiative on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

By embarking on building a super-dam, the largest ever conceived, in the seismically active Sino-Indian border region, China is potentially creating a ticking water bomb for millions of people ...