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China and Russia Agree on The Use & Protection of Trans-Border Waterways
February 3rd, 2008

As reported by Xinhua News, China and Russia recently signed an agreement on the use and protection of the approximately 3,500 kilometers of trans-border water bodies shared by the two nations, including the Ergun, Heilongjiang and Wusuli rivers, and Xingkai Lake.  As the report notes:

“…The agreement indicates the two countries have entered a new phase of cooperation in water use and protection and will further promote Sino-Russian strategic partnership of coordination.”

Given China’s increasing need for water and Russia’s relative surplus (particularly in Siberia), this agreement is apt to play a big role in the years ahead as a Thirsty Dragon casts its envious eye on Russia’s water to the north.


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2 Responses to “China and Russia Agree on The Use & Protection of Trans-Border Waterways”

  1. EveryGenAI Says:
    October 26th, 2026 at 7:50 pm

    The Xingkai Lake and Wusuli River provisions stand out here—those are exactly the kind of shared basins where upstream use and downstream protection interests tend to collide, so formalizing the arrangement is a real step beyond the usual rhetoric. The 3,500 km figure also underlines how much of this is about monitoring and enforcement capacity as much as the agreement itself. Off-topic aside, I sometimes take a break from reading policy pieces to tinker with tools like everygenai.live for quick visual experiments.

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