Hn_Ani_Dharmashala_India_And_Other_South_Asian_Countries_Stand_Up_02-07-06

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00:00if the relation between these two major powers can fluctuate for sure.

00:05So if the relation between India and China deteriorates or at some point

00:10becomes unfavorable to each other, the Chinese government could easily use the dam

00:17strategically either ways. You know, if there's a war between India and China,

00:21they could suddenly release river water from the dam and causing floods in the region,

00:26or they can just throw up the water to cause drought in the region.

00:31So these are the issues that I'm sure the Indian government clearly understands,

00:35and they have also put up a statement, the Indian government has put up a statement.

00:39But the government of India and the strategic thinkers of India need to take it very seriously.

00:46And as we as Tibetans, as we live here in India, and India is our second home,

00:52we are very grateful to India. So we also fear that such a dam would have serious implications

00:58for India. That's something that we do not want to see, and it's something that we have raised

01:02in an article that I wrote back in 2020 that you can read. It was published by Tribune

01:08in printing, both printing and online, and in which I have stated that the accelerated effort

01:18by the Chinese government to have infrastructure built up in the region is nothing but a greater

01:26strategic plan that China has in the region, because much of the southern regions of Tibet

01:33has very scarce population. And after development of excessive infrastructure in the region,

01:40China could easily bring Chinese population in the region that would support any of the

01:48Chinese government's policy of populating the region, particularly the Indo-Tibet border regions.

01:55So this is something that we should be very, very careful about, and we should need to do

02:01careful studies. Some people believe that China is constructing a water bomb.

02:06Yeah, exactly. That's what I said. The dam itself is basically a water dam. During the

02:12First and Second World Wars, there has been cases where the elite powers bombed dams to cause

02:18destruction in the country that they intend to cause destruction. So China can use the dam,

02:26as I stated earlier, either way. Sometimes they can say, okay, we have good relations with India,

02:33so we are providing hydrological data. When there's the relation source, they could just

02:40do anything, because the dam is under their territory control, as Tibet is currently

02:46occupied by China. So they have the authority. The only thing we here in India can do is to monitor

02:51through the satellite images, but that may not be comprehensive. So we need to have ground data

02:59of the dam and the water flow. We lack that. So it's definitely a water bomb for sure,

03:08and we should not overlook. Sometimes we have this tendency in India that, okay, the river flow

03:15from the Brahmaputra is not as big as it is being made to be, but ultimately the river itself is

03:21coming from there. So what if their source is blocked? What's the point of other rain-fed

03:26waters? Basically, there's no area where it can be accumulated if the primary source of the river

03:36is not there.

04:07So

04:15so

04:30officially they have condemned, and Parliament will condemn

04:36officially.

04:44Yeah.