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Water is new weapon in Beijing’s armoury

Editor | April 30, 2014 |

Sep. 1 (China Digital Times/by Brahma Chellaney): While China’s fondness for epic hydro-engineering projects has enormous repercussions within its own borders, the consequences are further complicated when dams are built upstream of other countries. Hundreds of millions of people from Afghanistan to Vietnam depend on rivers originating within the PRC, a reality to which Chinese policy makes little concession, and one which raises the possibility of aggressive interference in river flows in the future.

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Note: The writer is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and author of Water: Asia’s New Battleground.