Patrols involving China, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar embraced style over substance. It’s an instructive example for China’s great power ambitions. A Thai Marine Police Patrol Vessel in Samut Sakhon, ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Mekong River has become a new front in U.S.-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say, with Beijing overtaking Washington in both spending and influence over ...

A China-backed canal in Cambodia could push neighbouring Vietnam closer to the US, Chinese observers have warned. Hanoi might then be inspired to take a tougher stance against Beijing in the disputed ...

This story was originally published by New Security Beat on July 17, 2025. For decades, China has been the dominant force in hydropower development across the Mekong subregion, financing, and ...

(Reuters) -Cambodia should share a feasibility study on the impact of a planned China-backed canal that would divert water from the rice-growing floodplains of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, said the body ...

Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News. Save The Mekong River is more than the sum of its nearly ...

Communist Ho Chi Minh’s order of the day was “Destroy the enemy, and achieve new feats of arms.” In these terms last week the Communists launched a new major offensive in Asia. First objective: the ...