ESSAYTRANSBOUNDARY RIVER GOVERNANCE AND INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS
When Silence About a River Is a Choice, Not a Geography
The essay's occasion is the resumed construction phase of China's Medog Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo's Great Bend, a project designed for roughly 60 GW capacity, nearly three times the Three Gorges Dam and one that has sharpened downstream anxiety in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Neither India nor China is a signatory to the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention and the two countries manage their shared rivers only…
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