China’s Hydro-Hegemony: How Beijing Plays Water Games. China’s “water games” across South Asia include capitalising on mega-dams in Medog on the Tibetan Plateau, such as the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze, and pushing the Teesta River management project in Bangladesh to turn hydropower into geopolitical leverage. Incidentally, China now has 24,217 large dams; the.
