India, July 9 -- China greenlit the construction of what is slated to be the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet last December, raising serious alarm bells across the Indian subcontinent.

Officials have expressed apprehensions that the proposed dam would give Beijing significant power to regulate or even divert the flow of the trans-border river, which enters India through Arunachal Pradesh before flowing into Assam and Bangladesh.

In a recent interview with news agency PTI, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu warned of the dangers posed by the project, saying, "It is going to cause an existential threat to our tribes and our livelihoods. It is quite serious because China could even use this...