Abstract The Indian collision has deformed the eastern Asian continent in a multifaceted way, uplifting Tibet and surrounding mountains, activating ≥1,000 km‐long strike‐slip faults, opening Tertiary rifts oceanic basins up to ≈3,000 km away from Himalayas. Modeling such broad‐scale tectonics been challenging. While continent‐scale, lithospheric deformation appears have primarily taken‐up by lo...