ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about 'Chinese angle' to the Northeast water conflicts. It examines China's water resource choices within the context of its overall water policy directions, the possible conditions under which China is likely to exercise these choices, the ripple effects they are likely to have across the borders and some key concerns that have flown downstream. The health of Tibet's waters and the manner in which these are used upstream are bound to have ripple effects across Asia's international rivers such as the Mekong, Salween, Indus, Irrawaddy, Sutlej, Salween and the Brahmaputra. The mega water projects have triggered a domestic debate within China on the viability of grandiose measures to tame the environment. Since border regions are at the receiving end of a whole host of environmental challenges, capacity-building efforts should engage with and build on the experiential knowledge and coping systems specific to a region.
