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China-India Clash Over Chinese Claims to Tibetan Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Brahma Chellaney
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New Delhi — Sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, driven in part by high growth rates in gross domestic product and in part by mercantilist attempts to lock up supplies, has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are beginning to threaten rapid economic modernization, prompting the building of upstream projects on international rivers. If water geopolitics were to spur interstate tensions through reduced water flows to neighboring states, the Asian renaissance could stall.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , e1
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