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Will the Mekong River Region become the newest theater of US-China Rivalry ?

The Mekong River Basin of Southeast Asia could
become the new regional theater of the geopolitical
confrontation between China 🇨🇳 and the US🇺🇸 .

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#MekongRiver
#China
#SouthChinaSea
#USA
Projecting the riverine states, Myanmar🇲🇲, Thailand🇹🇭,
Laos🇱🇦, Vietnam🇻🇳 and Cambodia🇰🇭 directly in the
middle of the conflict between the two superpowers.
The duel bet. Washington and Beijing could take place through their rival institutions: the Western-backed Mekong River Commission(MRC) & the
Chinese-formed Mekong-Lancang Cooperation(LMC) framework which was initiated in 2015 in response to the former which was est. in the 1950
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Earlier this year, I worked on a story about a Cambodian Muslim family fishing and living on the banks of the #MekongRiver in #PhnomPenh. After the big storm last night, I went to check how they were doing reuters.com/article/us-mek…
ICYMI, some scary footage from last night's storm: m.facebook.com/10000135699151…
Tin Yusos, the fisherman we followed, told me the winds this year have been much stronger than in the past -- strong enough to flip boats over. Yusos's family was ok, but several boats in their community of 18 families were completely flooded last night.
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