Water diplomacy and China’s bid for soft power in the Mekong

• Main Authors: Zhang, Li, Zhang, Hongzhou
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; China; Mekong
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160280
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article investigates how China’s new policies and practices toward water issues in the Mekong subregion are reshaping hydropolitics and geopolitics. Despite its unmatched hard powers in the region, China suffers from a lack of soft powers in regional geopolitics generally and the transbound...