Satellite imagery gives a glimpse of the site where China has commenced construction on what will become the world's largest dam and China's most ambitious infrastructure project since the Three Gorges Dam. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Power Construction Corporation of China via email for comment outside of office hours.

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced over the weekend that construction had begun on a megadam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river. Just last year, Chinese authorities violently cracked down on protests against another Tibetan dam project that is currently under construction,

China is a "critical partner" to Europe with a range of shared interests, state news agency Xinhua said in a commentary piece, downplaying Beijing's rivalry with the European Union bloc hours before a key summit between leaders of both sides on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he might visit China in the "not too distant" future, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier said he would be traveling to Sweden to continue trade talks with his Chinese counterparts.