China today said it has “fully considered” the impact of the three dams it plans to build on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and claimed the projects will not affect water flows to India, reports PTI.
“China has always been responsible regarding the utilisation and development of cross border rivers and adopts a policy that pays equal attention to development and protection”, Chinese Foreign Ministry Sp...
The current geopolitics of Asia mainly revolve round on India-China relationship for most global observers.In most diplomatic row between these two Asian giants,Arunachal constantly feature in the fore.And most recently,China has earmarked a claim line one step further by including parts of Assam along the borders of what the so-called South Tibet.The development of infrastructure on the Chinese s...
India plans to recruit 100,000 soldiers over the next five years and send them to the China-India border areas to cement its military strength there, according to a report by the Times of India on Nov. 2. India's defense ministry has already approved a 13 billion-U.S. dollar military modernization plan.
The average growth rate of India's military spending has stood at 7 percent to 8 percent for mor...
Brahma Chellaney
Beijing, ignoring international conventions, is exercising dissolute rule over even international rivers. It is building dams angering its own minority peoples as well as those of neighbouring countries as they see themselves deprived of an essential basic good. Before it becomes the boss of water taps all over Asia, China must be halted. This is the analysis and warning of an Ind...
Bracing up to build a number of water projects in Tibet including a dam on Brahmaputra, Chinese scientists have completed a comprehensive satellite study of cross-border Tibetan rivers determining their exact sources besides measuring the length of their drainage basins, reports PTI.
Besides mapping out the course of the Brahmaputra, the photographic analysis using expeditions and satellite imagery...