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The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China’s Dam Building Is a Security Risk for India’s Northeast
March 26th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a report on how – if a new hydropower project at the Brahmaputra’s Great Bend comes about – northeastern India will have to go to sleep with the possibility of breach of mammoth sized water reservoirs over its head at any time: It may not be outlandish to conclude that the sanction given […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Does China’s Water Use Threaten Kazakhstan’s Big Lake?
March 19th, 2021
Via the Belt & Road News, a report on China’s impact on the Balkhash basin: Climate change, farming and a lack of Cooperation risk another Aral Sea Disaster. The demise of the Aral Sea is a tragic tale often told. Less known is the peril facing Central Asia’s largest remaining lake, Balkhash in eastern Kazakhstan, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China’s Escalating Water War Against India
March 18th, 2021
Via Times of India, commentary on how, in addition to other asymmetric tactics, China’s Brahmaputra mega-project is a new threat facing India: China’s multi-pronged unconventional war against India has ranged from cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and furtive territorial encroachments to strategic information warfare and an ongoing village building drive to populate uninhabited but disputed borderlands. Water […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Is China Really Behind A Malicious Plot To Buy Up Australia’s Water?
February 20th, 2021
Via the South China Morning Post, a look at how – as the relationship between Canberra and Beijing sours – distrust of China and concerns about drought and water shortages have fuelled talk that China is buying up Australia’s water sources with malicious intent: In Australia, Earth’s driest inhabited continent, landowning farmers are given water rights that can be traded […]
Read more »What Does China’s BRI Mean for Central Asia’s Water Future?
February 15th, 2021
Via Eurasianet, a report that the Belt and Road Initiative could exacerbate Central Asia’s water tensions, and Beijing seems to have thought little about the risks: For Central Asia, China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the biggest infrastructure drive in generations. And like the Soviet mega dams, mines, and devastating cotton monoculture that preceded it, the BRI […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China To Build World’s Biggest Dam on Sacred Tibetan River
February 13th, 2021
Via Al Jazeera, an article on China’s plan to build the world’s biggest dam on the Tsangpo River: In the foothills of the Himalayas, where the ancient Yarlung civilisation established the first Tibetan Empire, China has plans to build the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam. In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for […]
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