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From July 21st to 23rd, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping led a delegation to inspect Tibet. And just a day before Xi's arrival, Henan suffered severe flooding, with the official website of Henan Water Resources Department releasing information that it is "once in more than 5,000 years." On the 20th, a huge flood occurred in Zhengzhou City. The metro line 5 and the Jingguang Expressway tunnel were flooded and many people died.

In the case of serious flooding in Henan, why didn't Xi Jinping go to Henan to inspect and guide the relief work, and instead went to Tibet? Xi Jinping has also repeatedly emphasized to "always put the people's life safety and physical health first".

A netizen commented that: “Xi Jinping has a Ph.D., of course, he knows to run to higher ground when there’s a big flood, and it’s obvious that Tibet is higher than Henan!”

Combined media reports and China experts’ analysis believe that: Xi Jinping visited Tibet for three reasons: the first is the tension on the border between China and India; the second is to investigate the Motuo Hydropower project that has a total installed capacity of about three times the Three Gorges Dam, and the third is to avoid responsibility.

As seen in the photos released by the official media, those accompanying Xi Jinping to Tibet includes Vice Chairman of the CCP's Military Commission Zhang Youxia and Vice Premier Liu He.

In 1962, China won the Sino-Indian conflict but gave South Tibet back. Why didn’t they keep it? Because they can’t hold onto it. If one comes from India, they have to go through the great plains and up to the middle of the mountain. While the Chinese side needs to climb from the highlands, up and over the top of the mountains. With less than three months of transportation time per year, if the Chinese army was stationed in southern Tibet, the material transportation would not be efficient. The army simply can't stay there for a long period of time, so China returned the land they conquered.

The second purpose of Xi Jinping's visit to Tibet is to inspect the Motuo hydropower project. The planned hydropower plant in China is located near the entrance of the Niyang River, at the "big bend" canyon section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which has a drop of 2,350 m. The plant has an installed capacity of 60 GW (gigawatt), about 2.5 to 3 times that of the Three Gorges hydropower plant. The plant is currently in the survey stage. In 2019 it was reported that the Motuo hydropower plant will be built in 2030-2035 and completed by 2045.

Water Conservancy Expert Wang Weiluo said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that the Motuo hydropower project has been written into the 14th Five-Year Plan, meaning that it will go ahead regardless of whether the Tibetans and Indians agree or not. The investment in the project maybe five times that of the Three Gorges project. In addition, the Great Western Water Transfer Plan, which is the water transfer from Tibet to Xinjiang, has also been included in the 14th Five-Year Plan, with a project scale of about 309 billion US Dollars.

So Xi Jinping’s decision not to go to Henan actually saves them trouble as well. Wen Zhao said that the main reason Xi Jinping didn’t go to Henan is to avoid trouble. The CCP is such a system where from the top to bottom no one wants to take responsibility, and everyone wants to put the blame on someone else to save themselves, so the Zhengzhou flood is no exception.