China hydropower

Amid competition between China and the U.S., the question of the river's fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent.

Climate shocks are impacting China’s energy, water, and food security ambitions.

A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia's longest river.

Climate goals and local interests are driving Tibet’s hydropower boom, which will have implications far beyond China.

The past two years have seen water levels on the lower Mekong rise and full unpredictably.

The plan to build a hydropower dam across the Yarlung Zangbo has worried many in India, who say the country could be adversely affected.

Southeast Asia’s mighty river is quickly becoming a new front in US-China competition.

At the dawn of a new era of building dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo, countless lives and ecosystems are being risked in the name of “development” and geopolitics.

As relations with India turn cordial, Nepal slows down the implementation of past agreements with China.

China now has a chokehold on the Mekong River, the lifeline for the Indochina peninsula.

Don't be fooled by reports about China discharging water to alleviate drought along the Mekong.