India takes on China over Brahmaputra
New delhi: Engaging China again on Thursday, India said it was looking into a media report to see if Beijing might have gone back on an assurance that it would not divert the course of Brahmaputra.
This was the third straight day when the Foreign Office spoke on China. The series of statements began on Tuesday when India responded to a Chinese protest over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to “disputed” Arunachal Pradesh. The latest Foreign Office remark followed a newspaper report that suggested that China was building a series of dams on Brahmaputra river, called the Yaluzangbu or Yarlong Tsangpo upstream in Tibet.
Reacting to the news report, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash reminded that the India had taken up the issue in its meetings with the Chinese on trans-border rivers.
Compared to its statement on Wednesday when Delhi asked China to stay off Pakistani projects in PoK, the remarks on Brahmaputra were mild, but by choosing to react at some length to an Indian newspaper report, Delhi signalled it would not shy away from a slugfest.
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