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India.com
23 minutes ago
- India.com
Masterstroke by Modi government, launches double strike on China, hampers Xi Jinping's plan of building world's largest dam by... India plans to...
Siang Dam: A tractor slowly climbed a muddy hill in Beging village of Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh on May 21. According to the reports, the vehicle was carrying a drilling machine and other equipment meant for a special study. This study was being conducted to explore the possibility of constructing a large dam on the Siang River. The Siang River is known as the Brahmaputra in Assam and the Yarlung Tsangpo in China. The local Adi community there is against the dam and has been protesting. Authorities, meanwhile, tried to carry out the work discreetly. They planned to begin operations in Beging village first and then transport the equipment across the river. Locals are protesting against the dam: According to an ET report, protestors marched to Beging, cut off its only link to the outside world — a hanging bridge — and damaged the drilling machines, halting the survey work. Law enforcement agencies, despite the growing protests, remained restrained and avoided confrontation in the sensitive border region. Fearing a worsening of the situation, authorities temporarily suspended the operations. Here are some of the key details: The NHPC engineers stationed at the current drilling site moved to Pasighat, the main town located on the banks of the Siang River This has brought a temporary calm to the disputed riverfront. The government remains committed to constructing the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), which is estimated to cost ₹1.5 lakh crore. The project includes a 267-meter-high dam with a storage capacity of 9.2 billion cubic meters (BCM), designed as a strategic reservoir to counter potential upstream water diversion by China. Dam Vs Dam: It is important to note that this 1,000-megawatt project offers Arunachal Pradesh 12 percent free electricity and revenue sharing. The timing coincides with Beijing laying the foundation of the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra River. The building of the dam marks the beginning of strategic water management in the Eastern Himalayas. This raises a critical question: Will India's defensive dam strategy provide effective deterrence in this sensitive region, or will it further exacerbate environmental vulnerabilities? Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on July 9, 'This (Chinese dam) poses an existential threat to our tribes and our livelihood. It is quite serious because China could even use it as a kind of 'water bomb'.' He made this statement just a few days before Beijing officially announced the commencement of the construction work.
Time of India
27 minutes ago
- Time of India
After EU deal, Trump eyes China trade agreement as Beijing faces deadline amid US tariff standoff
The United States and the European Union clinched a trade agreement on Sunday (July 27, 2025) that will see EU exports taxed at 15 percent. This deal comes as an effort to resolve a transatlantic tariff standoff that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war. US President Donald Trump emerged from a high-stakes meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at his golf resort in Scotland, describing the deal as the "biggest ever." The deal came as the clock ticked down on an August 1 deadline to avoid an across-the-board US levy of 30 percent on European goods. After the European Union, there are high chances that Trump has his eyes on a successful deal with China amid the trade war due to tariffs. Meanwhile, top U.S. and Chinese economic officials are set to resume talks in Stockholm on Monday (July 28, 2025) to try to tackle longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies, aiming to extend a truce by three months and keep sharply higher tariffs at bay. 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Without an agreement, global supply chains could face renewed turmoil from U.S. duties snapping back to triple-digit levels that would amount to a bilateral trade embargo. The US president, in May 2025, had clarified his intentions behind striking a deal with China when he said that Beijing is in a trade surplus with Washington, and according to him, these are not good signs for America. 'China, as you know, has a tremendous trade surplus with us, and we can't, you know, we just can't have that,' he had said back then, as quoted by The Telegraph. . During a press conference after signing a deal with the UK, Trump in May 2025, had said that a deal with Beijing would be, 'the greatest thing that ever happened to China.' The people will be happier,' he said, according to The Telegraph. 'They'll buy for less. They'll see things that they never saw before … and it'll create great long-term peace,' he added. Trump had further claimed that China 'very much wanted to make a deal'. Live Events In May 2025, Britain and the US concluded a landmark economic agreement. The deal was defined in the General Terms for the Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD). Both countries agreed to begin negotiations on the EPD immediately to develop and formalize the proposals in the General Terms. The government remains relentlessly focused on securing the best outcomes for UK industry and ensuring that businesses up and down the country can feel the benefits of the deal as soon as possible, according to UK government website. US-China Stockholm talks The Stockholm talks come hot on the heels of Trump's biggest trade deal yet with the European Union on Sunday for a 15% tariff on most EU goods exports to the U.S., including autos. The bloc will also buy $750 billion worth of American energy and make $600 billion worth of U.S. investments in the coming years. No similar breakthrough is expected in the U.S.-China talks but trade analysts said that another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May was likely. An extension of that length would prevent further escalation and facilitate planning for a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October or early November. A U.S. Treasury spokesperson declined comment on a South China Morning Post report quoting unnamed sources as saying the two sides would refrain from introducing new tariffs or other steps that could escalate the trade war for another 90 days. Trump's administration is poised to impose new sectoral tariffs that will impact China within weeks, including on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, ship-to-shore cranes and other products. "We're very close to a deal with China. We really sort of made a deal with China, but we'll see how that goes," Trump told reporters on Sunday before European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen struck their tariff deal.
Indian Express
an hour ago
- Indian Express
China opposes Czech president's visit to Dalai Lama
China said it 'resolutely opposed' Czech President Petr Pavel's meeting in India with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and urged the Czech side to 'abide by its one-China political commitment' and maintain healthy and stable relations. China's embassy in the Czech Republic posted the notice late on Sunday and said China firmly opposes any form of contact between officials of any country and the Dalai 'clique'. Pavel met with the Dalai Lama on July 27, it said. 'China urges the Czech side to abide by its one-China political commitment, take immediate and effective measures to eliminate the bad influence,' the statement said. It added that the Czech side should stop sending 'any wrong signals to 'Tibetan independence' separatist forces.' The Dalai Lama has been living in exile in India since 1959 following a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet, and Indian foreign relations experts say his presence gives New Delhi leverage against China. India is also home to about 70,000 Tibetans and a Tibetan government-in-exile.
