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Nepal's deadly flooding has exposed the dangers of China's aggressive dam-building ambitions in the Himalayas. As rivers surge across South Asia, Beijing's massive Yarlung Tsangpo project raises fears of a far greater disaster in an earthquake-prone region, as a major failure could unleash enormous volumes of water downstream. China's pursuit of strategic control over vital rivers increasingly looks like a dangerous gamble with millions of lives.