美国国务院
发言人办公室
华盛顿哥伦比亚特区（Washington, D.C.）
2020年9 月 14日
国务卿迈克尔·蓬佩奥（MICHAEL R. POMPEO）发表声明
湄公河-美国伙伴关系：湄公河地区理应获得良好的伙伴
湄公河-美国伙伴关系（Mekong-U.S. Partnership）的启动反映了湄公河地区对美国的重要性。我们与湄公河伙伴国家的关系是我们印度-太平洋（Indo-Pacific）的愿景和我们与东盟（ASEAN）战略伙伴关系不可或缺的组成部分。随着为各地区性项目投入超过1.5亿美元的初始资金，我们将进一步促进湄公河下游倡议（Lower Mekong Initiative）和过去11年来美国35亿美元地区性援助取得的佳绩。
湄公河-美国伙伴关系坚持湄公河伙伴国家的自治、经济独立、良好治理和可持续增长。美国已为该地区抗击COVID-19冠状病毒疾病贡献了5,200多万美元，进一步促进了湄公河-美国在传染性疾病领域20多年的合作。我们已通过美国国际发展金融公司（U.S. International Development Finance Corporation）提供10多亿美元支持经济增长，用于东盟国家发展基础设施，同时计划今后几年再投入数十亿美元。
湄公河-美国伙伴关系还将继续加强水资源安全和湄公河委员会（Mekong River Commission）的工作，其中将包括已列入计划的5,500万美元新投资，帮助我们的湄公河伙伴打击跨国犯罪，包括毒品走私和人口、武器和野生生物的贩运。它还将通过亚洲EDGE（Asia EDGE），即增进发展和增长（Enhancing Development and Growth）、日本-美国-湄公河电力伙伴关系（Japan-U.S.-Mekong Power Partnership）和日本-美国战略能源伙伴关系（Japan-U.S. Strategic Energy Partnership），加强对能源安全和电力部门发展的支持。美国进行的一切努力都要求与日本、澳大利亚、韩国、印度等伙伴和湄公河其他好朋友密切合作。
但是，我们必须坦率地指出我们面临的挑战，包括来自中国共产党的挑战。中国共产党日益对湄公河的自然环境和经济自治造成威胁。
中国共产党单方面决定拦截上游河水，加剧了史所罕见的一场干旱。美国支持该地区和湄公河委员会，要求实现透明的数据分享。我们鼓励湄公河地区各国要求中国共产党承担责任，兑现分享其水资源数据的承诺。有关数据应该公开发布。有关数据应该常年公布。有关数据应该包括水资源和与水相关的数据，以及土地使用和水坝建设工程及运行方面的数据。同时，有关数据应该通过湄公河委员会分享。该委员会为湄公河地区各国的利益服务，不是为北京服务。
我们还关注中国交通建设公司（China Communications Construction Company）
等北京的国有行为者制造的与基础设施相关的债务及其掠夺性和不透明的商业行为。受到关注的问题还涉及人口、毒品和野生生物贩运的猖獗，其中很大一部分来源于与中国共产党有联系的组织、公司和特别经济区。
过去几十年来，湄公河地区各国走过了令人震撼的历程。他们理应得到良好的伙伴。我们通过湄公河-美国伙伴关系，期待今后多年为保障湄公河地区的和平、安全和繁荣继续合作。

PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The launch of the Mekong-U.S. Partnership reflects the importance of the Mekong region to the United States.  Our relationship with Mekong partner countries is an integral part of our Indo-Pacific vision and our strategic partnership with ASEAN.  With more than $150 million in initial investments in regional programs, we will build on the good work of the Lower Mekong Initiative and the $3.5 billion in regional U.S. assistance during the last eleven years.
The Mekong-U.S. Partnership is committed to the autonomy, economic independence, good governance, and sustainable growth of Mekong partner countries.  The United States has dedicated more than $52 million to fight COVID-19 in the region, building on more than twenty years of Mekong-U.S. cooperation on infectious diseases.  We have supported economic growth with more than $1 billion to develop infrastructure in ASEAN countries through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and plan to invest billions more in the coming years.
The Mekong-U.S. Partnership will also continue to strengthen water security and the work of the Mekong River Commission.  It will include $55 million in planned new investments to help our Mekong partners combat transnational crime, including narcotrafficking and trafficking in persons, arms, and wildlife.  It will also increase support for energy security and electricity sector development through Asia EDGE (Enhancing Development and Growth), the Japan-U.S.-Mekong Power Partnership (JUMMP), and the Japan-U.S. Strategic Energy Partnership (JUSEP).  In all our efforts, the United States intends to work closely with partners like Japan, Australia, South Korea, India, and other good friends of the Mekong.
We need to be candid, however, about the challenges we face, including those from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which increasingly threatens the Mekong’s natural environments and economic autonomy.
The CCP’s unilateral decisions to withhold water upstream have exacerbated an historic drought.  The United States stands with the region and the Mekong River Commission in calling for transparent data sharing. We encourage countries of the Mekong region to hold the CCP accountable to its pledge to share its water data.  That data should be public.  It should be released year-round.  It should include water and water-related data, as well as land use, and dam construction and operation data.  And it should be shared through the Mekong River Commission, the organization that serves the interests of Mekong-region countries, not those of Beijing.
We are also concerned about infrastructure-linked debt and the predatory and opaque business practices of Beijing’s state-owned actors, such as China Communications Construction Company.  Concerning also is the boom in trafficking of persons, drugs, and wildlife, much of which emanates from organizations, companies, and special economic zones linked to the CCP.
Countries of the Mekong region have undergone an amazing journey in the last few decades. They deserve good partners.  Through the Mekong-U.S. Partnership, we look forward to many more years of collaboration to ensure a peaceful, secure, and prosperous Mekong region.