Formed in 2015, the LMC has a wider focus to cover the political and security as well as economic, social and cultural sectors. The head of the six governments gather for the GMS summit every three years and for the LMC every two years. “I understand that in the future the LMC summit could take over the GMS summit because they are overlapping,” Su said. I don’t think the two schemes need to compete with each other,” he told journalists from Mekong basin countries. The LMC cooperative mechanism allowed China and neighbouring counties in the Mekong to come together on an equal basis, he said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok December 14, 2017 05:37 UTC