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” 

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