By Johanna Son
Inter Press Service
BANGKOK - Lost in the deluge of accusations that China's dams are the culprit in the Mekong River's unusually low levels is the fact that Beijing has actually become much less tightlipped about thorny issues with its neighbors than in the past.
Some years ago, China would have been unlikely to discuss such matters at a multilateral, official forum where it would be found to be at fault.
There was a time in the mid-1990s when just about the only response Southeast Asian nations could get from China about the high-profile dispute at that time - the spat over the Spratly islands in the South China Sea - was a statement saying it wanted only bilateral fora to discuss it.
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