The Mekong River has gotten another front in US-China competition, hippies and authorities state, with Beijing overwhelming Washington in both spending and impact over downstream nations helpless before its control of the stream’s waters.
It’s a showdown wherein the Trump organization – which has to a great extent kept up financing for an Obama-time ecological and improvement programs in the Lower Mekong – is losing ground.
The two forces’ battle as of late moved into the domain of science – with the US and Chinese governments each promoting various reports about whether China’s 11 dams on the waterway were hurting countries downstream.
China’s dams have given it broad control of the waters that stream down to Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, which have since quite a while ago relied upon the waterway for farming, fisheries, and progressively for hydropower in Laos.
