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The irony is you don’t even know what really was going on
If China really wanted that land that no one wants…. They could have cut off the water flowing along the river and made that land even more useless
Why would China cause that incident????
Could it be that exactly around that same time, even the Russians were pushing for China to vote to give India a permanent seat on the UN Security Council?
Don’t hear much about that anymore
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China Is Winning the Race for Water Security in Asia
Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asia’s fresh water. The future of Asia’s water—upon which about four billion people depend—lies in China’s hands. Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its “soft power” over downstream countries. But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when China’s own thirst outpaces its resources? And how will China’s choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region?
China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection. However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects. These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the country’s severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continent’s rivers, as well as to generate electricity.
These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijing’s decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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Why fight over useless land
When they can just use water as a weapon
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India-China relations and the
geopolitics of water
AMEYA PRATAP SINGH URVI TEMBEY
Control over key rivers effectively gives China a chokehold on India’s economy – and poses a wider regional threat.
China has claimed express ownership over Tibet's waters, making it an upstream controller of seven of South Asia's mightiest rivers – the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze and Mekong.
These rivers flow into Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and form the largest river run-off from any single location. It is estimated that 718 billion cubic meters of surface water flows out of the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese-administered regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia to neighbouring countries each year.
Nearly half that water, 48%, runs directly into India.
For India, the one domain in which China’s status as the “upper riparian” provides an almost insurmountable challenge is in ensuring shared access to transboundary rivers. And as the recent clashes on the Sino-Indian border have made clear, India needs to assess how China might “weaponise” its advantage over those countries downstream. Control over these rivers effectively gives China a chokehold on India’s economy.
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by 龙信明
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld? Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
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