China deflects attention from its refusal to share water, or to enter into institutionalized cooperation to manage common rivers sustainably, by flaunting the accords that it has signed on sharing flow statistics with riparian neighbors. These are not agreements to cooperate on shared resources, but rather commercial accords to sell hydrological data that other upstream countries provide free to downriver states.
为了把公众主意力从拒绝分享水资源或者拒绝加入可持续地管理河流合作机制等方面引向别处，中国四处宣扬自己与下游国家签订的水流量统计数据分享协议。但这种协议可不是合作分享资源的协定，而是向下游国家有偿提供水文数据的商业协议——须知其他上游国家都是免费提供的。