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Nepal-Tibet floods expose dangers of China's Himalayan gamble
Upstream engineering and missing warnings may have magnified the natural disaster A damaged section of a highway in Nuwakot, central Nepal, is seen on August 27, 2026, following a cryospheric collapse in the Himalayas. © Getty Images Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research and fellow at […]
By deepak · August 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Upstream engineering and missing warnings may have magnified the natural disaster
A damaged section of a highway in Nuwakot, central Nepal, is seen on August 27, 2026, following a cryospheric collapse in the Himalayas. © Getty Images
Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research and fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground," which won the Bernard Schwartz Book Award.
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