MEcon@MR Blog

China Round-Up: The China-ASEAN Trade Fair, New Stats on China and the Electricity Market, and a Nice Gift from Zhejiang Province

September 20, 2017 Anirudh Bhati

Image: Fishing Village Dock Sihanoukville Cambodia; Sally, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 — Image: Fishing Village Dock Sihanoukville Cambodia; Sally, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

While wishing everyone the best for the Pchum Ben holiday - let's see what the Middle Kingdom has been up to in the Kingdom of Wonder as of late...

China and Regional Cooperation: A New Era

July 11, 2017 Anirudh Bhati

Photo: 澜沧江边的架线工人/wireman on the riverside of Mekong; Mingjia Zhou in Nanjian, Yunnan, PRC; 11 September 2009; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 — Photo: 澜沧江边的架线工人/wireman on the riverside of Mekong; Mingjia Zhou in Nanjian, Yunnan, PRC; 11 September 2009; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

China's track record with regional cooperation, historically, has been "patchy" to say the least. The dismal outcomes of the 1990s era Tumen River Basin project in China's northeast regularly gallop to my mind when the phrase "regional cooperation" is uttered.