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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.