My take from this well researched article is that it demonstrates the manner in which the PRC has rescued the Tibetan people from feudalism. enabled them to share 21st technology and brought them prosperity. China cares for all its people, including its minorities. Kudos to the author who has shown expertise, diligence, and skill in extensive research and composing a difficult and highly scientific article.
Are you a CCP troll? Whatever. This is an amazing engineering feat. Due to state governments, the EPA, etc. I doubt the U.S. could build anything like this at all.
What an incredible resource! If I could comment on this:
"Since 2006, China and India have maintained an Expert Level Mechanism on Trans-Border Rivers, a forum for exchanging hydrological data, discussing flood management and addressing river-related issues like the dam. Both governments continue to reference this channel, and recent reports indicate that meetings and data-sharing arrangements via this mechanism are still active, although some data sharing was suspended in recent years following border tensions in 2022.... To editorialize a bit here, the key disagreement may therefore be less about the absence of communication, and more about the format in which it takes place. China traditionally prefers technocratic exchanges conducted via expert and bureaucratic channels, while many Indian politicians, commentators and analysts appear to anticipate a greater degree of public transparency around the project’s design and operation."
Transparency has been a very important accountability mechanism around coordinating water releases from hydropower reservoirs in the Mekong. In the late 2010s, a US-funded OSINT project to monitor Mekong water levels created a public, verifiable data record to back long-running complaints from Southeast Asian states that Chinese water flow management had contributed to drought conditions in downstream neighbors. That public record prompted China to expand its hydrological data-sharing with those neighbors. So the format of communication can shape what actually gets shared -- public transparency is an accountability tool to ensure accurate and complete information gets shared in private technocratic channels. Just like environmental disclosure systems in China are a public accountability tool the central government uses to rein in local government abuses.
My take from this well researched article is that it demonstrates the manner in which the PRC has rescued the Tibetan people from feudalism. enabled them to share 21st technology and brought them prosperity. China cares for all its people, including its minorities. Kudos to the author who has shown expertise, diligence, and skill in extensive research and composing a difficult and highly scientific article.
Are you a CCP troll? Whatever. This is an amazing engineering feat. Due to state governments, the EPA, etc. I doubt the U.S. could build anything like this at all.
Good extensive piece, also in the risks
Did I miss where the power is being transferred?
What an incredible resource! If I could comment on this:
"Since 2006, China and India have maintained an Expert Level Mechanism on Trans-Border Rivers, a forum for exchanging hydrological data, discussing flood management and addressing river-related issues like the dam. Both governments continue to reference this channel, and recent reports indicate that meetings and data-sharing arrangements via this mechanism are still active, although some data sharing was suspended in recent years following border tensions in 2022.... To editorialize a bit here, the key disagreement may therefore be less about the absence of communication, and more about the format in which it takes place. China traditionally prefers technocratic exchanges conducted via expert and bureaucratic channels, while many Indian politicians, commentators and analysts appear to anticipate a greater degree of public transparency around the project’s design and operation."
Transparency has been a very important accountability mechanism around coordinating water releases from hydropower reservoirs in the Mekong. In the late 2010s, a US-funded OSINT project to monitor Mekong water levels created a public, verifiable data record to back long-running complaints from Southeast Asian states that Chinese water flow management had contributed to drought conditions in downstream neighbors. That public record prompted China to expand its hydrological data-sharing with those neighbors. So the format of communication can shape what actually gets shared -- public transparency is an accountability tool to ensure accurate and complete information gets shared in private technocratic channels. Just like environmental disclosure systems in China are a public accountability tool the central government uses to rein in local government abuses.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-commits-share-year-round-water-data-with-mekong-river-commission-2020-10-22/
Fantastic coverage. Well researched