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Managing the Rise of a Hydro-Hegemon in Asia
China's Strategic Interests in the
Yarlung-Tsangpo River
Water security has become one of the greatest challenges of Asia in
the 21st century.1 Today, water problems in Asia are severe – one
out of five persons (700 million) does not have access to safe drinking
water and half of the region's population (1.8 billion) lacks access to
basic sanitation.2
In the light of increasing scarcity of clean water and
its rising demand, India and China sit at the headwaters of several of
Asia´s most important rivers. Although India has entered into water
sharing treaties with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh with whom it
shares important trans-boundary river systems, it doesn´t have one
with China which is the source country of the Yangtze, Mekong,
Yarlung-Tsangpo, Indus, Irrawaddy, Sutlej and the Salween River,
thereby exercising a degree of hydro-hegemony.3
In recent years, many in India have warned that China use its upstream position to
reroute the Yarlung-Tsangpo................................................................
the guiding questions of this analysis are: What is China´s general performance
as a hydro-hegemon in Asia? What is China´s hydrobehaviour in the
Yarlung-Tsangpo river?
http://www.idsa.in/system/files/OP_ChinaYarlungRiver.pdf
http://www.idsa.in/system/files/OP_ChinaYarlungRiver.pdf
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Those who are interested in understanding the Dynamics of the Chinese Water quest and what it means to others, this readable (and it does not take time) Paper is an eye opener.
Worth a read.
@bennedose, @Singh @ Yususf @pmaitra
China's Strategic Interests in the
Yarlung-Tsangpo River
Water security has become one of the greatest challenges of Asia in
the 21st century.1 Today, water problems in Asia are severe – one
out of five persons (700 million) does not have access to safe drinking
water and half of the region's population (1.8 billion) lacks access to
basic sanitation.2
In the light of increasing scarcity of clean water and
its rising demand, India and China sit at the headwaters of several of
Asia´s most important rivers. Although India has entered into water
sharing treaties with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh with whom it
shares important trans-boundary river systems, it doesn´t have one
with China which is the source country of the Yangtze, Mekong,
Yarlung-Tsangpo, Indus, Irrawaddy, Sutlej and the Salween River,
thereby exercising a degree of hydro-hegemony.3
In recent years, many in India have warned that China use its upstream position to
reroute the Yarlung-Tsangpo................................................................
the guiding questions of this analysis are: What is China´s general performance
as a hydro-hegemon in Asia? What is China´s hydrobehaviour in the
Yarlung-Tsangpo river?
http://www.idsa.in/system/files/OP_ChinaYarlungRiver.pdf
http://www.idsa.in/system/files/OP_ChinaYarlungRiver.pdf
************************************************
Those who are interested in understanding the Dynamics of the Chinese Water quest and what it means to others, this readable (and it does not take time) Paper is an eye opener.
Worth a read.
@bennedose, @Singh @ Yususf @pmaitra
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