Myanmar and China may have no choice but to scale back and move their troubled dam project

Aung San Suu Kyi wants cooperation with China and says backtracking on Myitsone would be a blow to Myanmar’s reputation

However, intense local and environmentalist opposition to the project may force a change, if not an outright scrapping

Zhu Xianghui

Published: 12:00pm, 1 May, 2019

Updated: 12:00pm, 1 May, 2019

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Zhu Xianghui is senior visiting fellow with the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also associate professor with the School of International Studies at Yunnan University, China.

Myanmar and China may have no choice but to scale back and move their troubled dam project

Aung San Suu Kyi wants cooperation with China and says backtracking on Myitsone would be a blow to Myanmar’s reputation However, intense local and environmentalist opposition to the project may force a change, if not an outright scrapping

Aung San Suu Kyi wants cooperation with China and says backtracking on Myitsone would be a blow to Myanmar’s reputation

However, intense local and environmentalist opposition to the project may force a change, if not an outright scrapping