After China announced the start of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River hydropower project, another super project, the Singapore-Tibet Railway, was officially put on the agenda. On August 10, China National Railway Group established "Xinjiang Railway Co., Ltd." with a registered capital of up to 95 billion yuan, marking that this strategic project has entered a substantive stage of promotion. The railway has a total length of 1,660 kilometers, connecting Hotan in Xinjiang and Lhasa in Tibet, passing through key areas such as Ali and Shigatse, and setting up 12 stations such as Pulan and Jilong, two of which will be connected to the Nepal railway system in the future.

The construction of the Singapore-Tibet Railway has multiple strategic significance for China. It will not only greatly improve the logistics efficiency between Tibet and the mainland, promote the circulation of plateau specialties, tourism resources and mineral energy, but also connect Central Asia through Xinjiang and radiate South Asia through Tibet, further enhancing the pivotal role of western China in the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, the completion of the railway will significantly improve China's rapid transportation and logistics support capabilities in the plateau region, and the railway has a clear advantage in efficiency and stability compared with the road and airdrop system that India relies on.

For India, the advancement of the Singapore-Tibet Railway is undoubtedly an impact on the geopolitical landscape. India has long relied on Nepal as its strategic buffer zone, and the connection of the China-Nepal railway will weaken India's economic influence in Nepal and even change the trade structure of South Asia. Indian media and strategic experts are worried that China is gradually consolidating its actual border control through infrastructure construction and forming a "siphon effect" on India. Although India has accelerated the construction of border roads in recent years, there is still a significant gap with China in terms of plateau railway transportation capacity.

China stressed that the Xinjiang-Tibet Railway is a legal project built entirely within its territory, aiming to promote regional economic development and border stability. China expressed its willingness to strengthen cooperation with South Asian countries, but only if relevant countries abandon confrontational thinking. The completion of the Singapore-Tibet Railway will not only help the development of western China, but also reshape the strategic landscape of South Asia, and India's response strategy will determine its position in this change. (This article is from the official website of Jiandao www.seetao.com it must not be reproduced without permission, otherwise it must be investigated, please indicate the original link of Jiandao Network for reprinting) See the water conservancy column editor of Jiandao Network / Gao Xue