While China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been in the news for a while, Japan is slowly funding the building of supplementary trade corridors in the Mekong region.
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Japan and Mekong countries to boost economic cooperation
But what Mekong countries want seems to be cooperation, not confrontation or competition, between Tokyo and Beijing.
1.5 degree ambition demands radical change, UN warns
It will need fundamental change to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees, but not doing so will cost much more, warns Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
EU to hit Myanmar, Cambodia with trade sanctions over rights record
Both may soon lose preferential access to the EU market under the bloc’s so-called Everything But Arms arrangement, which permits tariff-free access for all exports except for weapons and ammunition.
Saving Mekong forests must remain a focus for slowing climate change
As the IPCC readies its Special Report Global Warming at 1.5 °C, world leading scientists warn forest protection is paramount. How will the Mekong Region respond? Ask China.
China Reshapes The Vital Mekong River To Power Its Expansion
Chinese gunboat presence on the Mekong is “just to remind neighbors of the influence they can wield and that the hard power, the sharp power they hold is increasing.”
Plastic Waste in the World’s Oceans Could Double by 2030
An estimated 80 percent of the plastic in the ocean is derived from land-based sources and more than half of that can be attributed to China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam
China-Japan Rivalry Intensifies in Asia’s New Growth Region
A major criticism of the BRI is the suspicions that China is building these trade routes for its own benefit and not to promote two-way trade with countries in the Mekong Region.
Malaria’s ticking time bomb
There worries that donors will tire of the cause, and that the people in the GMS will grow to resent the obsession with malaria when they have more pressing needs. Yet if the effort lets up, malaria will roar back.
Germany commits EUR 4 million to strengthen Mekong transboundary water cooperation
To strengthen the MRC’s efforts to bring about improved integrated and coordinated river basin planning and management at a time that the lower Mekong basin is experiencing rapid development and change.