China beefing up military muscle under green energy cover in Tibet

New Delhi, Aug 30 China portrays the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) as a world?class clean?energy frontier, but the rapid build?out of hydropower, solar, wind, and ultra?high?voltage (UHV) transmission across the plateau is also creating a solid web of dual?use infrastructure that can buttress long?term military presence near the Indian border, according to an article. Reliable power, roads and communications now knit together border villages, logistics hubs, and outposts in ways that serve both civilian development and the PRC’S military structure, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), turning Tibet into what one geospatial study calls China’s “high?altitude power base”, states the article…