BANGKOK, (TNA) – Six countries standing along the Mekong River join forces to cope with the impacts of fluctuating discharges in the river, according to the Office of the National Water Resources.

 

ONWR deputy secretary-general Chayan Muangsong said that China raised the discharge rate of the Jinghong Dam on the river on March 1 and consequently the level of the river surged. China kept changing the discharge rate and downstream countries had to always monitor the level of the river closely, he said.

 

The downstream countries informed China of their concern and asked it to set a clear pattern of the discharge rates. Previously China kept answering that changes in the river did not result from it alone, he said.

 

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The true nature of China will be revealed as time goes by unfortunately it will be too late by the time the current administration realise what is happening.

China is letting the downstream nations know what it can do. In my book it's intimidation. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Previously China kept answering that changes in the river did not result from it alone, he said.

Chinas way of saying Big brother is upstream.

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

The true nature of China will be revealed as time goes by unfortunately it will be too late by the time the current administration realise what is happening.

Regimes come and go , The Middle Kingdom has always been the largest tribe within which there have been Dictators Kings Warlords and now Xi he too will be but a speck of dust like all here in the next century.

China doesn't give a flying what happens downstream.