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Does Anyone Care About the Climate Crisis in Tibet? 

Does Anyone Care About the Climate Crisis in Tibet? 

By Jagannath Panda
The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence. 

What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?

What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?

By Genevieve Donnellon-May and Mark Wang
While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors.
Rivers of Influence: How Droughts and Chinese Investment Shape Ecuador’s Energy Crisis

Rivers of Influence: How Droughts and Chinese Investment Shape Ecuador’s Energy Crisis

By Martin Brown
Ecuador’s energy crisis has focused attention on its under-performing hydroelectric dams built by China’s state-owned enterprises.

China’s Super Hydropower Dam and Fears of Sino-Indian Water Wars

China’s Super Hydropower Dam and Fears of Sino-Indian Water Wars

By Genevieve Donnellon-May
The already-fraught relationship between China and India is becoming even more tense over Beijing’s plans to build a “super hydropower dam” in Tibet. 

Will the Mekong River Really Become the Next South China Sea?

Will the Mekong River Really Become the Next South China Sea?

By Sebastian Strangio
Amid competition between China and the U.S., the question of the river's fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent.

What’s Driving Taiwan’s Mass Protests?
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What’s Driving Taiwan’s Mass Protests?

How China’s Extreme Weather Summer Is Affecting Its Security

How China’s Extreme Weather Summer Is Affecting Its Security

By Genevieve Donnellon-May and Zhang Hongzhou
Climate shocks are impacting China’s energy, water, and food security ambitions.

Hydropower Dams Have Had ‘Profound’ Impact on Mekong River, Monitor Claims

Hydropower Dams Have Had ‘Profound’ Impact on Mekong River, Monitor Claims

By Sebastian Strangio
A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia's longest river.
China’s Hydropower Plan on the Brahmaputra

China’s Hydropower Plan on the Brahmaputra

By Hongzhou Zhang and Genevieve Donnellon-May
Climate goals and local interests are driving Tibet’s hydropower boom, which will have implications far beyond China.

Mekong River Commission Calls for Improved Hydropower Data Sharing

Mekong River Commission Calls for Improved Hydropower Data Sharing

By Sebastian Strangio
The past two years have seen water levels on the lower Mekong rise and full unpredictably.

Chinese Dam Plan Worries India – But Perhaps Excessively

Chinese Dam Plan Worries India – But Perhaps Excessively

By Sudha Ramachandran
The plan to build a hydropower dam across the Yarlung Zangbo has worried many in India, who say the country could be adversely affected.

US Official Attacks China’s ‘Manipulation’ of the Mekong

US Official Attacks China’s ‘Manipulation’ of the Mekong

By Sebastian Strangio
Southeast Asia’s mighty river is quickly becoming a new front in US-China competition.
Tibet’s Rivers Will Determine Asia’s Future

Tibet’s Rivers Will Determine Asia’s Future

By Dechen Palmo
At the dawn of a new era of building dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo, countless lives and ecosystems are being risked in the name of “development” and geopolitics.

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