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It does matter, already answered previously on this thread. TIbet is still the source of Brahmaputra and China still controls the headwaters of that river.Except that it doesn't matter. Only less than 10% Brahmaputara's water comes from Tibet, the rest come from the south of Himalayas. Goverment of India is already building a new dam, larger than the Chinese one in the great bend (by water storage capacity for 18 Billion dollars. It has the capacity to capture whole of water from Chinese dam in case of war
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Dam vs dam: Project in Arunachal to take on China ‘water bomb’
India is set to build its largest hydropower dam on the Siang River in Arunachal Pradesh to counter China's construction across the border. The 1.5-lakh crore project with a 9.2 billion cubic metre storage capacity aims to mitigate potential water threats. Locals express concerns over...m.economictimes.com
Brahmaputra is a highly sediment-rich river. Chinese dams could trap sediment, alter flood cycles, and disrupt the downstream.
China has already shown on the Mekong River that control over headwaters, even with lower contribution to volume, can have outsized impact downstream during droughts. It controls water flow to thaliand , Burma and countless other countries downstream.
It doesnt matter how large India's dam is since the Chinese dam is upstream and China is building a 60,000 MW dam ( the worlds largest) there. They intend to control the flow of water downstream just like they did with Mekong.





