China’s rush to build more dams promises to roil relations across Asia, fostering greater competition for water and impeding the already slow progress toward institutionalizing regional cooperation and integration. If China continues on its current, heedless course, prospects for a rules-based order in Asia could perish forever.
中国急切地建设新坝的计划注定要引起亚洲关系动荡，引发水的更大竞争，妨碍已然进展缓慢的地区合作和一体化的制度化进程。如果中国一意孤行，基于规则的亚洲秩序前景渺茫。