Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development, human rights, and environmental protection. As CDT has covered this year, state-sponsored hydropower projects have forcibly...
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
Two research reports published this week underscore how authorities in Tibet have displaced local communities to impose state-sponsored projects, undermining environmental protection and human rights. The collaborative research...
Chinese authorities have reportedly arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and other residents of largely Tibetan Dege County in Sichuan Province, following protests against a vast dam project that would destroy six...
As the U.N. COP28 Climate Summit is underway in the United Arab Emirates, bringing together thousands of political leaders and environmental activists, one topic that is sure to get little attention there is the environmental...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts, the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief and current...
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
Due to increasingly stringent hydro project approval rules, and despite warnings of a...
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
At China.org.cn, Wu Jin reports the devastation of the upper Yangtze river by overfishing,...
The Guardian reports on the European firms that are helping China build up its hydropower...
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
Amid a race to secure hydropower resources, The Guardian’s John Vidal writes that China and...
Reuters’ Eveline Danubrata describes Singaporean companies’ scramble to help address China’s severe water shortages: Singapore is a hub for water technology because of its own concerns about water security....
At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
At The New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports environmentalists’ frustration with the decision to resume damming on southwest China’s Nu River. The new dams are expected to displace as many as 60,000 people locally,...
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