China and India are racing to build giant dams on either side of their disputed Himalayan border

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Open this photo in gallery: An Indian Army truck drives along a road to Tawang, near the Line of Actual Control, neighbouring China, in India's Arunachal Pradesh state, where New Delhi plans to build a dam to counter Beijing's project in Tibet.MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images On either side of a hotly contested border in the Himalayas, two giant dams are being planned that could reshape the region’s geography, ecology and geopolitics. In Tibet, China is barrelling ahead with plans to build the world’s largest hydropower plant on the Yarlung River. This has revived a long-standing desire by India to construct a...