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China Moves Oil Up the Mekong: What price the environment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Marwaan Macan-Markar
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BANGKOK - Energy-hungry China has started to use the Mekong River as a new oil-shipping route, raising new environmental concerns that accidental spills could adversely affect the livelihoods of nearly 60 million downstream river dwellers and eventually evolve into a bone of diplomatic contention between Southeast Asian countries and China.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e15
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