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The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating its 100th birthday this month in Tibet by opening a new 435-kilometer, 160 km per hour, railway line, promised to be the region’s “fastest”, to run from Lhasa to Nyingchi. The line, dubbed a part of China’s “project of the century”, will eventually connect Lhasa with Chengdu, and will boost China’s militarisation of Tibet’s border with India at Arunachal Pradesh.
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