Chinese Economics Thread
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Hendrik_2000
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This new road and railway together with proposed Thai, Cambodia railway will provide China with strategic link to SEA in case the west embargo Malacca Strait. China can request Laos of "Right of passage" to move troop and supply to Malaysia peninsula. And of course economic benefit making it easier and cheaper to transport good from SEA to China and vice versa
According to China's state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Laotian government greenlighted in early June the route of a new expressway linking the capital Vientiane in the central part of the country with Pakse in the south.
Laos is touting the 578 km, $5.1 billion expressway as its flagship infrastructure project. The route had been proposed by the Henan Provincial Communications Planning and Design Institute, a Chinese consulting company also known as HNRBI.
According to the state-run Laotian Times, the new expressway will reduce travel time from Vientiane to Pakse to seven hours from the current 10 hours, strengthening connectivity with two big foreign cities further south, Bangkok and Vietnam's commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.
Laos has also just embarked on a study for a mock-up of another proposed expressway linking Boten, which borders China, with Bokeo Province on the border with Thailand. The 180 km expressway would cost $3.8 billion and allow travel from southern China to Thailand via Laos in just 90 minutes.
The two projects, whose details are still being negotiated, will allow China easier access to the Indochina Peninsula.
According to China's state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Laotian government greenlighted in early June the route of a new expressway linking the capital Vientiane in the central part of the country with Pakse in the south.
Laos is touting the 578 km, $5.1 billion expressway as its flagship infrastructure project. The route had been proposed by the Henan Provincial Communications Planning and Design Institute, a Chinese consulting company also known as HNRBI.
According to the state-run Laotian Times, the new expressway will reduce travel time from Vientiane to Pakse to seven hours from the current 10 hours, strengthening connectivity with two big foreign cities further south, Bangkok and Vietnam's commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.
Laos has also just embarked on a study for a mock-up of another proposed expressway linking Boten, which borders China, with Bokeo Province on the border with Thailand. The 180 km expressway would cost $3.8 billion and allow travel from southern China to Thailand via Laos in just 90 minutes.
The two projects, whose details are still being negotiated, will allow China easier access to the Indochina Peninsula.
It's patently absurd that multibillionaires and international corporations wield so much influence in the United States that common people weep for them when they run afoul of the law.
Oh no, Jack Ma's net worth has been reduced by some tens of billions from more tens of billions! The horror, CCP is going to hang all the landlords next!
Reminds me of how Uber was able to conjure up "grassroots" campaigns to bully cities into allowing their service. They literally manipulated the democratic process and nobody blinks an eye.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
I don't think so the biggest hero in Chinese reform is Chinese people itself Of course they have to be permitted to enrich themselves. And here is the genius of Deng. He freed the animal spirit of Chinese people to engage in commerce, agriculture, industry itself . For the first time in history Merchant is respected. Thru history they are at bottom on tote pole. With confucian scholar at the top then come farmer then soldier, the bottom is reserve for artisan, merchant etc.
It is no secret that the first provinces experimenting with capitalism are Guangdong and Fujian both have strong connection with overseas Chinese
In 1978 in the small village of Xiaogang in Anhui Province, 18 villagers agreed in secret to take individual responsibility for their agricultural output, in violation of the rules of China’s system of collective farming at the time. The villagers feared they would be severely punished if their experiment were exposed. Instead, however, their basic system ended up being adopted by farms across the entire country. #
Episode #10
Making A New China EP10 Reform and Opening-Up
Even less sure about the "counter China" part. Or has it become convention that everything the US does is either "counter China" or "contain China?"
Even "countering china" has been quite weird. First they tried to promo dramacracy in Hong Kong, BLM happened. Then they came up with taiwan the transparent dramacracy, capitol happened.
I don't think they are sure of what they are trying to do
