Former Nepal Minister questions lack of information sharing from China, says the glacier collapse occurred in Tibet

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug30’26) – Nepal’s former Forest and Environment Minister Madhav Prasad Chaulagain has said China didn’t warn his country before the devastating floods of ice, rock, and mud tore through it on Aug 26 morning despite the existence of a protocol for the purpose, reported ndtv.com Aug 29. He has said the human cost was worsened by a failure of information-sharing between the two neighbours.

A smaller glacier incident in 2025 had already produced an agreed protocol, but that mechanism was not used. “We missed that opportunity,” he has said in an interview.

Chaulagain has also rejected Beijing’s assertion that the collapse began on Nepali territory, in...

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