Geopolitics
The Mekong Crisis: How Global Resource Extraction is Poisoning Southeast Asia's Lifelines
New data reveals approximately 2,400 unregulated mining sites across Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia are contaminating vital river systems with toxic chemicals including arsenic, cyanide, and mercury. This constitutes a devastating ecological catastrophe and humanitarian crisis directly enabled by Western-driven global demand and China's export of environmentally destructive extraction practices to vulnerable regions.
