Vanessa Lamb's guest appearances

Vanessa Lamb

The Belt and Road Podcast 

Rebecca Ray

Lauren Baker

Ma Xinyue

Michael Boulle

Mark Grimsditch

Alvin Camba

Assel Bitabarova

Charles Stevens

Scott Wingo

Tom Baxter

Tim Summers

Lili pike

Juliet Lu

Emily Weinstein

Nicholas Lo

OwlTail

From Vietnam to Myanmar, how does criticism of Chinese investment serve local politics, and how does it distract from broader environmental struggles? The Belt and Road Podcast's new co-host Juliet Lu welcomes Vanessa Lamb and Nga Dao to discuss anti-Chinese sentiment in the hydropower sectors of Myanmar and Vietnam, highlighting some key contrasts in the histories of Chinese investment in each country and the challenges of anti-hydropower activism across the Mekong Region. Their Paper: Perceptions and practices of investment: China's hydropower investments in Vietnam and MyanmarRecommendations: Nga: The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong by Brian Eyler Vanessa’s own book is just out! Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary RiverAnd also: by Shaun Lim, James Sidaway &amp; Chih Yuan Woon “Reordering China, Respacing the World: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture”Juliet: Made in China Journal V. 4, Issue 2 (2019) “Under Construction: Visions of Chinese Infrastructure” 

From Vietnam to Myanmar, how does criticism of Chinese investment serve local politics, and how does it distract from broader environmental struggles? The Belt and Road Podcast's new co-host Juliet Lu welcomes Vanessa Lamb and Nga Dao to discuss anti-Chinese sentiment in the hydropower sectors of Myanmar and Vietnam, highlighting some key contrasts in the histories of Chinese investment in each country and the challenges of anti-hydropower activism across the Mekong Region. Their Paper: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.2017.1298519" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perceptions and practices of investment</a>: China's hydropower investments in Vietnam and Myanmar Recommendations: Nga: <a href="https://www.stimson.org/content/review-brian-eylers-last-days-mighty-mekong" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong</a> by Brian Eyler Vanessa’s own book is just out! <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knowing the Salween River</a>: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary RiverAnd also: by Shaun Lim, James Sidaway &amp; Chih Yuan Woon “<a href="https://ap4.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/geojds/intro/reordering%20china%20respacing%20the%20world%20belt%20and%20road%20initiative%20as%20an%20emergent%20geopolitical%20culture.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reordering China, Respacing the World</a>: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture”Juliet: Made in China Journal V. 4, Issue 2 (2019) “<a href="https://madeinchinajournal.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under Construction: Visions of Chinese Infrastructure</a>”

Perceptions and Practices of Chinese Hydropower Investment in Vietnam and Myanmar - Nga Dao and Vanessa Lamb