China’s recent decision to exclude the Nu River in China (also known as the Upper Salween) from their dam-building program highlights Beijing’s contradictory support for dam projects downstream in the ethnic states of Myanmar.
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Sun Yun, a Senior Associate with the East Asia Program at the U.S.-based Stimson Center, confirmed this surplus, “China’s Yunnan province suffers major overcapacity in power generation and could potentially turn into a supplier of electricity to Myanmar.”
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