China builds key highway through Brahmaputra Canyon in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh border
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Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 08:19 PM IST
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Construction of a highway costing USD 310 million passing through the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, known as the world s deepest gorge with a maximum depth of 6,009 meters, was completed on Saturday last, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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The Brahmaputra is the longest river in Tibet and its valley is the world s deepest with a 7,000-metre drop from the highest mountain peak to the lowest basin.
China has completed the construction of a strategic highway through the Brahmaputra Canyon, stated to be the world s deepest, close to the Arunachal Pradesh border ahead of its plan to build a mega-dam over the gorge.
China Builds Key Highway Through Brahmaputra Gorge In Tibet Near Arunachal: Report China Builds Key Highway Through Brahmaputra Gorge In Tibet Near Arunachal: Report A tunnel was dug through on Saturday morning, marking the completion of major construction of the 67.22-km road connecting Pad Township in the city of Nyingchi and Medog County, cutting travel time by eight hours.
The mighty Brahmaputra river is known as Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet.
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China has completed the construction of a strategic highway through the Brahmaputra Canyon, stated to be the world s deepest, close to the Arunachal Pradesh border ahead of its plan to build a mega-dam over the gorge.
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Jaishankar said the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi s visit in 1988 to China 26 years after the 1962 conflict led to a consensus on having stability along the frontier.
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NEW DELHI: The relationship between India and China is at a crossroads and its direction depends on whether the neighbouring country adheres to various agreements on maintaining peace and tranquillity along the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday referring to the eastern Ladakh standoff.
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Even after Asia’s economies climb out of the COVID-19 recession, China’s strategy of frenetically building dams and reservoirs on transnational rivers will confront them with a more permanent barrier to long-term economic prosperity: water scarcity. China’s recently unveiled plan to construct a mega-dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river, better known as the Brahmaputra, may be the biggest threat yet.
China dominates Asia’s water map, owing to its annexation of ethnic-minority homelands, such as the water-rich Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang. China’s territorial aggrandisement in the South China Sea and the Himalayas, where it has targeted even tiny Bhutan, has been accompanied by stealthier efforts to appropriate water resources in transnational river basins – a strategy that hasn’t spared even friendly or pliant neighbours, such as Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, and North Korea. Indeed, China has not hesitated to use its h