Public sentiment about China's Brahmaputra Dam construction reveals a complex landscape of skepticism, frustration, and resignation. Many commenters express fears over potential negative impacts on water security for India and Bangladesh, while a segment acknowledges China's engineering capabilities and views the situation as a natural geopolitical progression. Criticism of India's response adds to the frustration, resulting in a divided public opinion that oscillates between acceptance of the dam's potential benefits and concerns over environmental and geopolitical implications.

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isummonyouhere

Article didn't mention, but what are the effects downstream?

Marchello_E

You can’t even read the article due to the amount of ads Jesus

MuchAligned38

Anytime one of these megaprojects is built, an article mentions by how much the water retension will change the earth rotation.

Dry-Difference-396

Weirdest part is the name. I’d figure China would use a Chinese name.

daredaki-sama

And it'll be finished by the end of next week!

UnarmedRobonaut

BS report. This project is NOT a dam. It's a tunnel connecting different parts of the river to generate electricity with the height difference.

hextreme2007

India has dams too on same river. Feel sorry for Bangladeshis downstream.

China stops water, india stops water.

China releases their dam, India releases water in their dam.

Both ways bangladesh gets fook !!

Smoochy_dog

I’m sure this will go over well with India /s

ZEROs0000

&gt; According to a 2023 report, the hydropower station is expected to generate more than 300 billion kWh of electricity each year – enough to meet the annual needs of over 300 million people.

1,000 kWh per person seems like a rather low estimate, even for China. 

For comparison: The average US household uses over 10,000 kWh per year.

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Fit-Lion-773

Meanwhile idiot trump announces that he persuaded coca cola to use cane sugar.

New_Faithlessness384

Haloninja10

&gt;China on Saturday officially commenced construction of a massive USD 167.8 billion dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, close to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

&gt;Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced the project’s launch during a ground-breaking ceremony held in Nyingchi City, located along the lower stretches of the Brahmaputra, locally known in China as the Yarlung Zangbo, according to state media.

&gt;The ceremony was held at the site of the Mainling hydropower station in Tibet’s Nyingchi region, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

&gt;Touted as the world’s largest infrastructure initiative, the project has triggered concerns in downstream countries, particularly India and Bangladesh.

&gt;The project will consist of five cascade hydropower stations, with a total investment estimated at around 1.2 trillion Yuan (about USD 167.8 billion), the report said.  
  
According to a 2023 report, the hydropower station is expected to generate more than 300 billion kWh of electricity each year – enough to meet the annual needs of over 300 million people.

&gt;It will primarily deliver electricity for external consumption while also addressing local demand in Tibet, which China officially refers to as Xizang.  Representatives from various organisations, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Power Construction Corporation of China and locals attended the ceremony, the report said.

me_a_genius

China's best accomplishment in the 21st century is public infrastructure. 

Too bad it is very aggressive towards foreigners trying to become citizens.

Entire-Start5565

HobsNCalvin

For those who don't understand its an economic attack on India

They'll sell power to India irf influence and opening their markets.

Historical-Tough6455

I hope they make it a whole hell of a lot better than all of the other tofu dreg shit that’s going up lately

TheMailerDaemonLives

First they fucked up Southeast Asia with their dams, and now they're going to fuck up South Asia with their dams.

China is destroying the environment and its relations with other countries exactly for what? It's not for going green, cause it's currently reliant on coal and will be reliant on coal as long as it won't be willing to fire millions of its coal miners.

ilivgur

Bangladesh is more dependent on its water than India. So they will never block it.

Adi_Boy96

What will change? ,In past there were floods,In present there are floods and In future there will be floods in Brahmputra.Only thing is making dams on our side for which some locals are protesting.

Glum-Caterpillar-916

Dams should be contructed on the rivers of NE India to stop flooding in Assam. 70% of water comes for Indian rivers and rainfall. 

If China stops the flow of water, then nothing will happen in Assam. Now, India must take full advantage of Indus Water Treaty.

whydama

In response to this Modi has immediately ordered IT cell to make 1000 new laser eyes video

Certain_Bridge9574

The laser eye foreign minister forgot to shoot his laser in the right direction or perhaps his laser is too weak

Desinnovat_ID

we are trying to build dam from our side for a long time but some people are against this.

PriorGuidance3706

Will this have any effect on the annual floods we face?

Herr_Doktorr

What india did to Pakistan water treaty, what is china doing to indian waters? 

Very unclear. Water war is on!! 


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Whats next?

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While Indian side, we have to convince few people to make the Dam

And then people have the audacity to compare us to China

pratyush_1991

fk that lets launch ladla phupa yojna

Kejru really introduced the 2nd wave of rot in the form of freebies to the country. The first of course being the reservations. I admit though casteism is a big problem in India.

theonetosavetheworld

How much extra money these Chinese have just to build a nonsense dam, they are spending this much

fightclub-848

lol the article mentions “water bomb”.  Hasn’t India done the same, now they are complaining “poor me”.

🇵🇸🇮🇪

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Not important. People will not buy it. If India builds its own dam to protect itself, we'll march rather than solving the problem ourselves.

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Lazy-Cat-6408

Bbc news:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o

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SpaceTrash1986

Copied from BBC article 


Experts and officials have flagged concerns that the new dam would empower China to control or divert the trans-border Yarlung Tsangpo, which flows south into India's Arunachal Pradesh and Assam states as well as Bangladesh, where it feeds into the Siang, Brahmaputra and Jamuna rivers.

Aloo_Bharta71

India has been doing this to us already. Let them fight

Severe-Ad-6378

India will never reinstate the Indus Water Treaty at this rate, with the amount of water they'll need from potentially losing this source. Just one domino falling into another...

Coconuts-Manifesto

Yes the major catchment area is in India, so its not something that will be a huge issue for us. To check flooding, we need to build Dam at out side as well

This Dam can actually cause major ecological damage though ( ours will too).

Doesn't India get flooded every year? This will hep them stay dryer!

HKRioterLuvwhitedick

the largest power station, not the largest dam.

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