China Conducted Nuclear Blasts in Tibet to Divert Brahmaputra River

tibet.net

6 pointssaurabh4 comments

Fuck China. What the hell do they want? They already have all the resources, a very big landmass, world largest workforce and what not...

China and India are not exactly best friends and water wars are one of the reasons. So while China might have done them (they've done worse things,) I'd take these reports with a grain of salt. US agencies, if I'm not mistaken, can detect these and we probably would have heard from some US newspaper.

You have missed few important parts:

1) It (supposedly) happened in March 2005, when world's (and US agencies') eyes were on Iraq war.

2) "<...> US authorities admitted to their Indian counterparts the complete failure of their satellites to detect the blasts"

Which is quite believable if nuclear blasts were low-yield as stated in the article.

Because you hear everything that happens around the world, and the U.S. government would never silence such a thing in the name of managing relationships..

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