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China has approved what is set to become the biggest hydropower dam complex in the world, capable of producing nearly three times as much power as the current record-holder, the Three Gorges Dam.

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Personnel of China Customs check and seize 1,000 copies of a geography textbook in Huanggang checkpoint in late 2024. Photo: China Customs. Both Aksai Chin and South Tibet lie on China’s border ...

This is mainly due to the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, at which time they shuttered access to Mt. Everest, via Tibet, to all foreigners until 1980. Since then, attaining permits to the ...