From Vietnam to Myanmar, how does criticism of Chinese investment serve local politics, and how does it distract from broader environmental struggles? The Belt and Road Podcast's new co-host Juliet Lu welcomes Vanessa Lamb and Nga Dao to discuss anti-Chinese sentiment in the hydropower sectors of Myanmar and Vietnam, highlighting some key contrasts in the histories of Chinese investment in each country and the challenges of anti-hydropower activism across the Mekong Region.
Their Paper: Perceptions and practices of investment: China's hydropower investments in Vietnam and Myanmar
Recommendations:
Nga: The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong by Brian Eyler
Vanessa’s own book is just out!
Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
And also: by Shaun Lim, James Sidaway & Chih Yuan Woon “Reordering China, Respacing the World: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture”
Juliet:
Made in China Journal V. 4, Issue 2 (2019) “Under Construction: Visions of Chinese Infrastructure”