Worse, while promoting multilateralism on the world stage, China has given the cold shoulder to multilateral cooperation among river-basin states. The lower-Mekong countries, for example, view China’s strategy as an attempt to “divide and conquer.”
更糟糕的是，在国际舞台上四处鼓吹多边主义的中国却对同流域国家的多边合作冷眼相向。对此湄公河下游国家则将中国的战略解读为一种“分化瓦解，逐个征服”的企图。