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Hydro-hegemon China has no modern historical parallel

Oct. 14 (Project Syndicate/by Brahma Chellaney): China’s rise as a hydro-hegemon with no modern historical parallel. The world’s biggest dam builder – with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000 large dams on the planet – is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbors by undertaking massive hydro-engineering projects on transnational rivers.

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