By Claude Arpi
22 Apr , 2015
A railway line through the Aksai Chin?
When one watches China, it is gratifying to be right once in a while.
It does not happen every day.
Last week, I wrote on http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ that I doubted if China would dig a tunnel under the Everest, when it had easy access to Nepal via Kyirong and Zhangmu.
Xinhua has now issued a clarification: “Will China really dig a tunnel through Himalayas?”
I quote from the ‘clarification’: Recently a news story titled “China intends to build a railway through the Himalayas to link to its border with Nepal” has been abuzz on western media.
Glancing at publications from AFP to Reuters and from the UK’s ‘The Guardian’ to ‘The Independent’, one sees the headline: “Qinghai-Tibet Railway on the roof of the world is already a marvel of human engineering, but could it be that China Railway will now ‘defy heaven’”? Will they really dig a turnnel through the Himalayas?
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