China has been a major upstream state and a party to more than fifty bilateral and multilateral water sharing agreements.
"[The Department of Foreign Affairs] is currently assessing future threats, mission security requirements, departmental mitigations, and multilateral cost sharing opportunities with a view to creating a sustainable solution to protect [Government of Canada] personnel, information, and assets abroad".
The Southeast Asian city-state, eager to avoid the kind of onslaught on tax cheats faced by Switzerland, said it would sign a multilateral treaty on sharing tax details created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the association of free market democracies.
Mrs. Clinton said the alliance would create "opportunities to pursue multilateral cooperation on shared challenges, including terrorism, nuclear proliferation and piracy".
Certainly, the huge rise in trade deals seems to have done nothing to boost the share of the continent's trade that is intra-Asian (see chart).Countries may worry that a multilateral deal would erode the preferential terms they got through bilateral ones.
Under the given circumstances, Both China and India may need to transform its bilateral approach to a multilateral one on the water sharing issues, especially in the case of the Brahmaputra.
Retroactivity was stripped from the final text, though the agreement now calls for the investigation of a "global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism" to address cases where plant or animal resources were commercialized prior to the new agreement.
The political reality is dominant despite the existence of these initiatives that might obstruct in the formation of a perceptional convergence among the actors on regional integrity to call for a multilateral initiative in the river water sharing movement (Tables 1, 2, 3; Figs. 1, 2).
This study constitutes an early attempt of applying this theoretical framework Rittberger et al.'s (2006) explanatory model for the development of international organizations into an area of regional multilateral governance, precisely in river water sharing between GBM basin countries, hence, requires further in-depth investigation with broader scopes and opportunities.
Considering the uneven distribution of natural and cultural resources along the Maritime Silk Road, the key to regional integration will lie in the identification of valuable common resources, differentiated "cooperation" and "integration" of multilateral stakeholders, and establishment of resource sharing mechanisms aimed at regional "combination" of maximum interests.
