India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) produced satellite imagery that seems to suggest that China is building a dam on the Brahmaputra River. This evidence prompted the government to bypass the typical intergovernmental channels of flood-water data sharing and raise the level of discourse through the Ministry of External Affairs over this project on a river that forms the border between the two countries.

The dam-building exercise seems to be confirmed in the Chinese press with details in print that suggest that a hydroelectric dam is being built in the area. The government in New Delhi seems to be claiming ignorance to this plan.

Read more about this issue in this story in Indian Express.

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