China on Tuesday rejected as “false and untrue” a media report that it was planning to build a 1,000-km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region.
Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post had on Monday said that Chinese engineers were testing techniques that could be used to build the tunnel, the world’s longest.
“This is untrue. This is a false report,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing when asked about the report. China will continue to attach great importance to cross-border river cooperation, she said.
India as riparian state has already flagged its concerns to China about various dams being built by it on the Brahmaputra river.