TOKYO – Moves between Japan and China over the development of the Mekong River basin show signs of intensifying as Tokyo is trying to regain some ground lost in recent years to Beijing in the economic backwater of East Asia.
Japan inaugurated a regular economic ministerial meeting with four countries in the Mekong region – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, or CLMV countries as they are often called collectively – in the Laos capital Vientiane at the end of last month.
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