China's prime minister pledged on Monday to share more water management data from its portion of the Mekong River with its neighbours in Southeast ...
BANGKOK: Chinese premier Li Keqiang pledged on Monday to share more water management data from its portion of the Mekong River with its neighbours in Southeast Asia after US criticism that it was"hoarding" water and hurting livelihoods downstream.
He spoke at a video-conference summit of leaders of the six LMC members: China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. China has no water treaties with the lower Mekong countries and only shares limited data during the monsoon season on flows on the upper stretch of what it calls the Lancang River.
Thailand also urged the China-backed LMC, set up in 2016, to work with experts at the Mekong River Commission when developing its information-sharing platform, the government said in a statement.another front in the battle for influence between China and the United States
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