Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Aug 26: “China has been constructing big dams inside China with an intention to use it as a weapon to destroy the main infrastructure like road, bridges along the Indus to stop the main supply incase of war”.
This was stated by the Central Tibetan Administration Sikyong (Prime Minister), Dr Lobsang Sangay during a talk on “Environment of Tibet and its Impact on Asia”, held at Ladakh International Centre (LIC) Leh.
While, explaining, Dr Lobzang said that 8 percent of the Chinese population, consisting of 400 to 500 million people residing in 5000 cities, is facing scarcity of water and therefore to fulfill the requirement Chinese are constructing dams to effecting the flow of water which is ultimately effecting monsoon season in India. “As per a study, 60 percent of glaciers in Tibet will melt in next 40 years which will ultimately effect the entire Asian countries,” he said. He also accused China of carrying out huge deforestation activities which also control the monsoon in India.
“Urbanization in China especially on Tibetan Plateau is another factors effecting the monsoon is India causing floods in India therefore it is important for the Asian countries to restore stewardship of Tibetan people and Tibet which may a be nodal problem for China but solution to Asian countries considering the various environmental factors,” stressed Dr.Lobzang. He also informs that the China didn’t sign the UN convention of Water Sharing in 1997 and India and China has agreement to share data on flood and river flow but not a single Indian expert is allowed to visit China to study which clearly shows the intention of China.
LIC founder Ambassador P Stobdan mentioned that purpose of such talk is to make Ladakh important part at State and Centre level discussion. Talks concerning our neighboring countries should involve Ladakh and LIC agenda is that India must understand issue through Ladakh, he added and also informed about the upcoming International conference on” India, China and Russian” in Delhi in December, which will be supported the by Ministry of external Affairs, New Delhi.
Prominent citizen, Politician, scholars and volunteers and expert from various field were also present during the talk yesterday.
Pertinent to mention here that Dr Lobsang Sangay was a Senior Fellow of Harvard Law School until he was elected as the Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration – the first democratically elected head of the Tibetan people and the political successor to the Dalai Lama.
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