Waterpower

It's not widely ventilated, but the United States has been into politicizing the Mekong River situation with just as much vehemence as it has done with the dispute over the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) or for that matter, the Covid-19 pandemic, which to this day, it blames on China.

In a tweet sometime ago, Ned Price, US State Department spokesman, raised "concerns over the dropping water levels of the Mekong River," after the Mekong River Commission (MRC) had expressed apprehension that the water level in the river had come down to "alarming levels" as a result of water control in upstream dams in China.