An opinion piece by Stephen R. Nagy and Jagannath Panda, published in the New York Times, examines China's Medog (Motuo) hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. The project is estimated to cost about $168 billion and generate 300 billion kWh a year, more than three times the Three Gorges Dam, making it the world's largest hydropower project once complete. The site sits in a geologically complex zone with active faults, steep slopes, glaciers and landslides; the 2017 Nyingchi earthquake triggered more than 1,800 landslides. Because the river flows into India (where it becomes the Siang and joins the Brahmaputra) and then Bangladesh, the consequences could cross borders, and the authors call for independent seismic assessment, transparent monitoring and regional contingency planning, while noting there is no evidence Medog will certainly fail. The piece also places Japan in the context of its expanding infrastructure investment and strategic partnership with India in the northeast.
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