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China “Leverages” Tibet’s Water

June 25, 2020;

A new report has highlighted how control of Tibet is “arming Beijing with increasing leverage over the countries critically dependent on river flows from the Tibetan Plateau”. Published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs the report describes how “China has long pursued a broader strategy to corner natural resources”, and that China has turned “ecologically-fragile” Tibet “into the center of its mining and dam-building activities”.

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