China launches record ultra-high-voltage power lines project to massively funnel ill-gotten clean energy from Tibet

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(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’26) – When it comes to clean energy, Tibet is the source and China’s power-hungry coastal megacities the consumers, with the unabashedly exploitative manner in which production is carried out by state-linked Chinese companies rendering the situation colonial, submerging or displacing entire Tibetan villages and centuries-old cultural centres, with, at most, only token compensation. China currently is building ultra-high-voltage power lines to connect Tibet’s vast hydropower, solar and wind projects with factory hubs in southern China, according to a scmp.com report Jan 22.

The project – which will shoot the equivalent of half the electricity produced by the ...

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