General Ripper
Banned
ut I would say that one of the most important consequences would be that Sino-Pakistan alliance probably wouldn't exist here.
Yes, and I can only imagine the trouble if the Tibetans tried to divert or dam the waters. No place to really put it, for a start. Plus China might do what Egypt does to Ethiopia. Threaten them if they try to keep water for agriculture or dam it for electricity, even though the Egyptians hoard so much water that it floods Sudanese territory, with a tenth of the water evaporating each year anyways.Actually, yes if you think of Brahmaputra and Indus ( that would be important for India ), but not so much about China and SE Asia, most of these rivers flows from Qinghai Province. If easternmost part of Tibet remains part of China ( say border on Salween river ), even headwaters of Salween river ( eastern Burma ) and Mekong are in China.
Yes, and I can only imagine the trouble if the Tibetans tried to divert or dam the waters. No place to really put it, for a start. Plus China might do what Egypt does to Ethiopia. Threaten them if they try to keep water for agriculture or dam it for electricity, even though the Egyptians hoard so much water that it floods Sudanese territory, with a tenth of the water evaporating each year anyways.
Well, certainly Xinjiang has a lot of oil and gas, but considering that China is net importer...
China was a net-exporter of oil until 1993 and until the mid-2010's it produced more oil than it imported. I would assume that there would be at least some small changes in both Chinese foreign and economic policies due to this.