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KATHMANDU- On August 26, a glacier broke loose above the Nepal-Tibet border, sending a wall of ice, rock and water crashing down the Bhote Koshi valley. Within days, Nepal had reported more than 1,300 deaths and thousands of people still missing. China, which governs the villages on the other side of the disaster, reported only a handful of casualties.
The sharp difference in the reported toll has drawn attention to both the scale of China’s infrastructure expansion in Tibet and the tight control over information from the region.
China has presented the Tibetan Autonomous Region as a major clean-energy frontier, with hydropower dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo, solar farms across areas including Shigatse and Ga...
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