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.
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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