All the energy synergies between China, Myanmar and Cambodia

Despite Human Rights Watch attacks, China deepens cooperation with Cambodia on hydroelectricity. The point of Giuseppe Gagliano

We could say nothing surprising by referring to the very recent declaration by the Foreign Minister of Myanmar, who has evidently declared with satisfaction that China will support the government with 6 million dollars, funding that will be used to develop various projects, projects that fall within a much broader cooperation framework known as the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation.

On the front of the water infrastructure that China has a very high need – at least as much as those relating to the energy sector -, despite the very tough stance by some human rights organizations – and among these Human Rights Watch -, cooperation between China and Cambodia it continues quickly and linearly.

We are naturally alluding to the dam built in Cambodia by the Chinese company China Huaneng Group known as Lower Sesan 2, which has an energy production capacity of about 400 MW with a cost of 780 million dollars: this infrastructure which naturally fits into the most important project. wide of China known as the New Silk Road.

Regardless of the legitimacy of the criticisms also addressed by the human rights organization, there is nevertheless a very close synergy both on a political and economic level between China and Cambodia, a synergy that will certainly not be questioned by the Human Rights Watch report. , whose assessments are aimed not only at denouncing the violation of human rights but also at mobilizing a part of Cambodian civil society against the Chinese presence in Cambodia.

This mobilization could theoretically destabilize this collaboration between Cambodia and China in favor of other… Euro-Atlantic nations.

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/cina-myanmar-cambogia/ on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:41:07 +0000.