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Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post on Monday said that Chinese engineers were testing techniques to build the tunnel, the world’s longest one. The alleged plan was to divert the waters to the Xinjiang desert. Until now, China's longest tunnel is the 85-km Dahuofang water project in Liaoning province, while the world's longest tunnel is the 137-km main water supply pipe beneath the city of New York. The location and its significance. Courtesy: The Pioneer India being a riparian state, has already conveyed to China about the growing concern regarding dams built by the latter in and around Brahmaputra river called, Yarlung Tsangpo in China. The view was "to turn Xinjiang into California". The water will be diverted from the Yarlung Tsangpo River(The Brahmaputra's tributary in in China) in southern Tibet, which turns into the river Brahmaputra once it enters India,extending to the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang. Wang Wei, a researcher who helped draft...