A report by Indian media that Chinese authorities had recently constructed a village near the eastern stretch of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) separating both countries has cast a spotlight on a potential new front emerging in the eight-month border stand-off between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
The report comes after Beijing announced last month that it planned to build a "super dam" on one of the world's largest rivers, which China calls the Yarlung Zangbo and India refers to as the Brahmaputra. The river flows downstream from mainland China into Arunachal Pradesh, with the proposed dam just kilometres away from the point where the river enters India. Experts have warned that the dam could negatively impact India's water and food security as well as cause disasters like floods in the regions that it flows through - primarily Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in India.
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