Foreignpolicy
Beijing is building hydroelectric dams and dredging to allow bigger boats as worries of environmental devastation grow.
BANGKOK — Thirty million people depend for a living on the Mekong, the great Asian river that runs through Southeast Asia from its origins in the snowfields of Tibet to its end in the delta region of Vietnam, where it fertilizes one of the world’s richest agricultural areas. It’s the greatest freshwater fishery on the planet, second only to the Amazon in its riparian biodiversity. If you control its waters, then you control much of the economy of Southeast Asia. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Mekong Plans Threaten Disaster for Countries Downstream”

Cầu cao tốc Beipanjiang tại tỉnh Quý Châu, Trung Quốc (Ảnh: Glabb / trên trang Wikimedia Commons)

Tổng thống đắc cử Donald Trump cam kết rút Mỹ khỏi TPP ngay ngày đầu tiên nhậm chức – một động thái được coi là nhường đường cho Trung Quốc. Ảnh: breakingnewslive.net