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Just the FAQs: A Deep Dive on China’s Most Secretive Hydropower Project

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Going deep on the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in eastern Tibet

It bugs me when journalists refer to things in China as “secretive”. Most of the time, “secretive” just means “not covered in English-language media. Typically, it’s a trick to gin up mystery around something that isn’t actually that mysterious at all, and if the journalist had taken the time - or had the ability - to research the topic with Chinese sources, they would have found that it wasn’t that secretive at all. I preface my essay with this commentary to establish a shared understanding: when I say something in China is secretive, I really mean it. A secretive Chinese project in my…

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