China completes strategic Tibet highway near Arunachal border
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Construction is part of a wider infrastructure push in border areas in Tibet
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A file photo of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in Nyingchi city, in China s western Tibet Autonomous Region. | Photo Credit:
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Construction is part of a wider infrastructure push in border areas in Tibet
China has completed construction of a strategically significant highway through the world’s deepest canyon in Tibet along the Brahmaputra river, enabling greater access to remote areas along the disputed border with Arunachal Pradesh in India.
The highway, official media in China reported this week, took seven years to complete and passes through the Grand Canyon of the Yarlung Zangbo river, as the Brahmaputra is called in Tibet. This is the “second significant passageway” to Medog county that borders Arunachal, the official Xinhua news agency reported, directly connecting the Pad townsh