BANGKOK—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed concern on Aug. 1 over Chinese dam building, dredging and other activities on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, calling them “troubling trends.”
He spoke Thursday in Thailand’s capital with his counterparts from countries through which the river flows, including Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The foreign ministers of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations—ASEAN—are having their annual meetings in Bangkok this week.
