Impact of Chinese Projects on Nepal

So let me shine some light on this

major flash flood that has claimed many lives and so much

destruction.

My heart goes out to Nepal and everyone there.

So the Tibetan Plateau is essentially the hydrological high

ground of Asia.

Rivers originating there feeds hundreds of millions of people

downstream, 2.5 billion. China's political

control of Tibet, therefore,

gives Beijing something extraordinarily valuable,

upstream control over water, while downstream countries are

structurally dependent on flows originating inside China.

So when China builds enormous reservoirs,

dams, it isn't merely producing electricity.

It can actually alter

when water is released, how much water reaches downstream

countries, and many other

repercussions.

So now, the Lende, Gyirong, and

Rasuwagadhi Corridor.

CWE, China International Water and Electric

Corporation,

was contracted for the project's civil and hydromechanical

works.

So the project involved extensive underground excavation,

including a 4.185-kilometer headrace

tunnel, an underground powerhouse, shafts,

and underground structures.

So Rasuwagadhi Hydro Power Company,

basically there has been many contemporary reporting which has documented the

Chinese workers and heavy equipment present at

the project. At one point, around 245 Chinese

workers were reported among approximately 700

workers on the project.

The construction began in 2014, and the

project had only reached commercial operation at the end of

2024. So China has, I mean, heavily

engineered the Gyirong Corridor.

You know, the Gyirong-Jilong is not some

untouched valley.

China,

since the invasion of Tibet, has substantially developed

the road network between

Gyirong Town and the Gyirong Airport, Gyirong Port, sorry,

and the corridor part of broader Chinese strategy to make

the Nepal border a major transportation and trade route.

The Chinese and the Nepalese governments have also been pursuing the

Jilong-Kathmandu railway tunnels and additional

highway infrastructures.

So there is a lot of things that is

not being talked about.

There is so much of research and

scrutiny that is needed.

So this whole Lende-Gyirong-Rasuwagadhi Corridor,

who is behind all this? You know, the Chinese government.

The amount of excavation, drilling, blasting,

tunneling,

mining.

So that is obviously having effects

on the fragile Himalayan rock. I mean, imagine

the fragile Himalayan rock

and the fractures it already has only gets

extenuated and only gets larger and only gets more

disturbed by all these

environmental hazards caused by the Chinese greed.

So it is very important

for the international community and for Nepal and the Nepali citizens

to understand what is actually happening.

There is also documented tunnel projects in Gyirong County

itself. Like one example is the

Kongtangla Road Tunnel Project involving roughly

4.9 kilometer tunnel roads and substantial

associated engineering. So, I

mean, you can imagine what is happening.

And this is not a coincidence. You know,

the same place

just about a year ago, we had, we saw a flash flood.

So we cannot just blame, you know, a

glacier meltdown and ice meltdown.

Of course, I mean, the amount of drilling and, you know,

mining and

construction and roads and tunnels and bridges and

dams and, I mean, through those very

fragile mountain regions. Those regions were basically

inhabited

by Tibetan nomads. They were the true stewards

of the land.

But they've all been displaced.

Millions of Tibetan children have been put

in colonial boarding school to re-educate them and to make

sure the erasure of the Tibetan culture and the identity.

So

I urge everyone to do some research.

We cannot turn a blind eye on this. We cannot, I mean,

you know, who suffers at the end? People, ordinary people

who have nothing to do with all this corruption and all this

greed. But people in the high up, you

know, government officials and people in corporations,

especially the Chinese government.

I mean, the Chinese have been doing this

all over the world, in Africa, in Asia,

in Pakistan, Bangladesh. They're trying to do this everywhere.

Look at what they're building. You know, do some research.

Use,

you know, use cross-references. Check.

This is not just a natural calamity.

This is a

heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching,

soul-wrenching, heartbreaking, you know,

disaster. And my heart goes out to everyone that

has suffered and that's still suffering.

And I really hope that

the entire world will come together and help Nepal. We love Nepal.

But Nepali people and the Nepali government has to be

careful with the

Chinese government. They are not your friends.