Between Laos and China, a thriving border (4/4) • FRANCE 24 English
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- In Laos, the only country in Southeast Asia without a coastline, it's hoped a high-speed train line will help open up the country and usher in an economic boom. The 420-kilometre-long rail link takes only three hours to connect Laos's capital Vientiane with China. On the Laotian side of the border, the Boten Special Economic Zone is coming into being, six years after the $10 billion project was launched.
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I am surprised that France 24 had a positive piece on China. Unlike many many Western propaganda channels with their heavy biased hit-piece. I respect that ....
because this channel has little influence in western countries, so they can do what their chief editor want to do somtimes
Not really positive. When I hear that China financed it for 70%, I though of "debt trap". But Actually it's only 20%. See the comment of Alex H.
@@qqx154 China is financing 70%. Laos' portion is 30% but in reality, Laos is only investing about $720 million or 12%.
It is a free press in the Western world. They have the right to report as they want to not like communist countries and dictators where the press is heavily controlled by the state.
Some Western press also are paid by communist China.
@@KinkyHeadMonkey No, they report what the oligarchs who completely monopolize and control the mass media want them to report. There is zero freedom. You only have to debunk the endless lies to find there's hardly any truth in their fantasy reporting at all.
Very rare for a neutral report. Wish the editor will not be dismissed because of this.
You won't be SURPRISED to find none of the WESTERN MSM hardly mention or covered this LAOS/CHINA railway cooperation..
Jealous much?
I think France is more moderate in the middle of the geopolitical tussle between China and the US. Germany has turned against China, because the practical and independent Merkel is no longer in charge.
哈哈哈
He actually couldn’t help himself to start with “As China is looking to dominate global trade through BRI” …
How dare China create opportunities for prosperity in land-locked Laos.
😁😁😁
Did the French report mention how many unexplored bombs left by the US the construction had to clear in order to build the high speed rail in Laos?
@UFO Search up Operation Barrel Roll, since YT doesn't like me linking stuff
@@chengyangzhou8785 America will always leave something to be clean up by the others
@@chengyangzhou8785 TH-cam censorship is crazy these days
By dropping the bombs, the US hindered Laos' development 2 times: when the bombs were dropped, and AFTER the bombs were dropped... (for decades).
trust in few more year that small city will growth into behemot city...
This railway is roughly half in Lao and half in China. China paid 100% of the Chinese section, which runs 200 km/h train (more expensive than Lao section) and China financed 20% of the Lao section which runs 160 km/h train (about the same speed as Amtrak). Think this is how this video stated China financed 70%. The payment term is by live stock and goods instead of money. Lao is landlocked but it is actually located in the center of south east Asia. The model Lao is gearing toward is the role similar to Chicago being a logistic center for trade exchange between China and south east Asia. The next phase is extending the railway to Thailand and hope eventually all the way to Singapore. Lao has 1.7% increase in GDP after the railway in operation, and we hope the country continues to prosper. Currently only freight train can cross the border, no passenger train yet due to Covid.
i read it somewhere it's China: 70%, Laos: 30%.
Across the board Amtrak trains will only reach an average speed of 80mph.
Amtrak trains go up to 150mph on the track & the Amtrak Acela got up to 165mph in testing!
Source from internet
Awesome. Go ASEAN and China!
This railway is mainly for for heavy cargo. Construction cost for the railway for heavy cargo is very expensive as well.
@@directxxxx71 They'll get there in 100 years. LOL
Congratulate to Laos and the people , may prosperity follows soon !❤❤❤❤
How much more land that Laos needs to lease to Turmeric Chinese in order to get some sort of investments?
Within 40 years you yellow turmeric Chinese will be in every corner of Laos and control its economy completely.
@@KinkyHeadMonkey jeolousy is killing your conscience!🤣🤣🤣🤣
can you stop using such underworld filter, it makes the scenery very black and grey
故意的
CONGRATULATIONS LAOS 🇱🇦!!!
Like someone said elsewhere,
the decision to build the Laos-China railway is the "MOST CORRECT DECISION" made by the Laotian government and people in 100 years.
Big turning point for Laos from war torned to prosperity!!!
West create wars, china create businesses
Shame on you
不要face 的蠢egg
With BBC style filter, everything in this video looks grey and dark!
They are all trained in anti China rhetorics by their plantation owner USA .
The background sound also dull and somewhat melancholy.
" ... update your software then ... at least ... "
Great to see CHINA has Warm & welcome relationship with All her neighbours. Recently CHINA Bhutan agreed to sort out all issues & open road traffic bw them.
All credits goes to CHINAS deed & helping nature. ❤️❤️🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳❤️🙏
All? China claims Arunachal Pradesh and all of the sea that actually belong to the Philippines and Vietnam. Nothing against China, but it is not "friendly" to its neighbours either.
Laos will be closely studied to see how infrastructure create viable economies. I look forward to a more equal, prosperous and peaceful world with the BRI.
A very interesting and informative video, France 24 did a very good job in showing BRI affecting and improving Asians lives and trades.
What did US, France, Britain did for Lao in the past century when they had total control of Laos?
Britain wasn't there at all.
@@michaelbrown3439 I wouldn't say that. Which wars did UK miss if US was involved? US dropped 270 mill bombs in that small country (it will need 200 years to clean up). Unfortunately, raf played part of that role.
Bombed, colonized, and raped everything from raw materials to selling toxic products... Etc
China for peace and prosperity ✨️ 🙏 win win for all
Creepy music, filtered colors and crazy camera angles say it all
Thank you for telling the world how China has sincerely contributed to Laos’ economy and also to the world’s in a positive way.
Of course countries like USA and Japan will be very jealous and will find ways to destroy the peace and harmony that exist.
1000% agreed
Look up Sri Lanka
What is France doing for its former colony?
France still has its empire in West Africa.
Not a damn thing
Running away
France still It’s empire in Caribbean and main Land South America.
@@carlosmario7608 也就欺负一下小国
I want to see laos
What's with the background music and filter 🤣🤣
it's kinds of sorceries of western crusadic witches
As reports show, the Thais are enjoying the ease of export to China, especially to the interior-western region of China. This rail connection should compliment the Singapore-Kunming rail link which will reduce delivery time for the ASEAN-China trade by a good margin. With the huge population in China coupled with the potentials of the Central market in the Eurasian landmass, the potential of this link is important for the ASEAN region. With shorter delivery time in comparison with the comparative 'cheaper' shipping mode, the additional delay plus all the add-on charges at most of the seaports, the faster rail link may prove to be more efficient in longer term.
I don’t care just deliver my Thai durian to Shanghai they are super delicious.
@White moon If you don't care, don't use their services then. Delicious Durians are grown in almost every Asian countries not just in Thailand.
In Southeast Asia there are two countries that have bullet trains (Indonesia and Laos.) The difference is that bullet trains in Indonesia are not yet connected to China and they connect cities in Indonesia with the aim of growing new industrial areas, especially growth in the electric car battery industry ( Indonesia Battery Corp / IBC, LG Energy Soultions and CATL have started producing electric batteries for all EV brands in the world and controls more than 70% of the world's electric car batteries ).
So many electric car brands have been produced in Indonesia (Hyundai Ioniq 5, Wuling Air EV, Toyota Innova Zenix Hybrid, BZ4X and others) and this not only assembling like in other countries because in Indonesia they also produce electric car batteries.
Very different from the bullet trains in Laos, they are directly connected to cities in China.Things that are very unbalanced and profitable for China, with the completion of this bullet train it will be easier for China to expand economically to Laos and Laos only as a consumer for Chinese goods / products.
Investing high speed train in island nation of Indonesia? This is an earthquake zone
make this series a seperate channel plz, too much to scroll to find it
The Global South work and trade. So unlike the collective west.
Laos 🇱🇦 is best place in the world
I'm proud of the railway as a Chinese national and I took during my Laos journey in August, 2023. It penetrates the energy of Chinese modernization.
Loved French🇫🇷 ♥️ Laos🇱🇦
Why adding dark filter? Laos is bright and sunny.
Me: "What the, a positive headline about China?"
Video: "As China tries to dominate global trade..."
Me: Oh.
You know, what many regions Really need is to supercharge their Regional economic ties (i.e. trading with their neighbors). This is how they can form economic superblocks with stronger negotiating powers against super-sized economies like China. But for that, they need infrastructure. I understood after coming to Europe that you can't have economic integration if you don't even have the roads and rails to back it up. For example, it's easier for South Africa to trade with China than with land-locked African countries because of a lack of roads on the African continent.
For this, BRI is an opportunity. If I were a developed country, I would 1. join the BRI, 2. use it to set up the infrastructure framework within the region, 3. get as much tech transfer from China as possible in the meantime and 4. kick out China and do the rest myself once I have the capacity to do so. I mean, that's what China did: it allowed multinational corps in, learned how to do things themselves and kicked the multinational corps out. Fair's fair.
After BRI, Laos will go from an isolated landlocked country to one connected to not only its neighboring countries but to Southeast Asia as well. By then, it will no longer matter if China decides to have a fall-out with Laos: the railway will remain in Laos' territory and it will be able to set its own terms of trade.
Simple say, just think long term, but long enough for you to gain your own interests, no long term cooperation, no long term profits for both parties and do not even think about the benefits for the third party. Own first, nothing or very little for the other. Such strategy has been applied and proven to be effective for the last few hundreds of year. Whoever wanted to change it must go to hell!
@@joggerdawn4078 That's right. In the end, the duty of all world governments is to their own people. Long-term, they can only control what happens within their borders and maybe influence their neighbors. Most countries will never be able to influence Chinese politics, so what if, for example, China decides to completely shut itself from the world for good? What if World War III happens? The infrastructure (and hopefully technology) left by BRI can hopefully be reused by these countries to build more diverse and resilient supply chains. This should be their real priority, not just increase trade with China.
I think you're basically right, but there is no need to join BRI in order to invest. BRI is a Chinese program, but it is not the only way to invest in infrastructure globally.
@@pjacobsen1000But it's the most guaranteed source
Thanks
8:00 The BGM... hilarious, what is the editor even thinking
Remind me of century ago. French had tried effort built a hardship railway from Vietnam to Kunming China.
"... Alex, you have to keep in mind that the French are Europeans, so they have their own interests. ( Europeans always build infrastructure towards nearby harbours to export goods out of a colony or an area they control, to make the most profit on their World Market) China & Laos are two Asian countries that develop this infrastructure to enhance inter Asian trade ... and if this railway is expended towards Singapore it would have a hugely impact on the economic development of China/ASEAN countries of South/East Asia as a whole, it therefore not surprise me, that after two/2 years already the economy of "Boten' in Laos is booming ..... "
Why can't America learn from China! South and Latin America is desperately in need for this type of Investments! The world is tired of War.
" ... they already start learning, by building new infrastructure(s), the struggle they are facing are the huge investment costs; they have a pilot project running in the state of California .."
So weird bgm….Will the French report domestic news in this bgm ?
Trade is two ways street. It's benefits for both.
It takes 1hr 53mins other travellers say , from Vientiane to Luang Prabang.
anyway， this rail is in asia not in berlin
China & Laos are family, there will be a lot of Laos & Chinese mixed people
Lao is on my bucket list, but I have no desire to see this border town. History & culture are why I traveled
Great China
Laos best place in the world
".. so you are an inhabitant of Laos .... Laos is an Asian country ... & there is only one planet ... "
West, here's Billions to UA, China hold my beer....
well done! lao and china.
🙏🙏Lao🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦
Please no earthquake
If you want infrastructure including HSR done right, you will choose China. If you want 10kilometers in 5 years of HSR, you choose Japan, just ask India.
Listen to that Former colonists media use the music!
I'm somewhat shocked that they find it ok to leave the child at the back of the lorry all by himself. And I'm Chinese.
This is common practice in rural part of Southeast Asia especially the lower income countries.
" ... I'd noticed that too, but there is also a 'scene' that the boy wants to prove he is capable of carrying two packages, though he overestimated his own physical strength and 'mum' is correcting him only to carry one instead ... this little boy wants to a "big man" .... "
beyond from Laos to china and Europe
China has a lot of wealth, construction is for the people, wealth is not for war
China has its own brand of Colonialism It is working China creates villages and send Chinese people to populate these Towns Same thing all over Africa They have there own police and laws even though they are located in another country China is disbursing its population throughout the Third World South America also
老挝在某一方面已经超过美国了。比如高速铁路总里程。哈哈
Be aware. Use of a foreign currency within Laos is restricted to Lao Kip, thai baht and us dollar normally. But as of last month only Lao Kip will be accepted and the use of any other foreign currency is illegal until the economy grows
Really???
Laos and China used to be one country. I like interior design.
2:33 I'm super curious as to how this guy got his jacket and if it's real
Recycled clothes
It might still be from back when Laos and other countries in the region like Vietnam defeated the US military. Although the jacket looks almost too good for having been used for half a century.
@@johannesbremer7711 the camoflauge looks like Woodland from the 80s and 90s. He probably got it from surplus (popular with airsoft)
@@jk3jk35 it is not authentic dbu jacket
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LOL
Why do i have a feeling, this is not gonna end well for Laos, china never does anything for the good heart, there is allways a reason behind it.
Maybe because you have a bad and dark heart, and you have a low moral. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your parents too.
Now it's Laos after srilanka...wow china does it!!!
Lol
Do some research lata
Only 10% of the loans is to Chinese
Someone is missing a brain...
@耳耳 2% from India too .
Boy check what the Sri Lanka government did over the last ten years and check the number
" ... countries never go broke, it depends on the investor, on the middle/long term booth countries will benefit in the end .... "
Wonder if all of these praising complements are bots? Laos can't pay their debt to ccp. Laos is one of the least educated country in se Asia. Ccp just walk over when its time to collect.
try harder, first month open lao done 100 mil trade that huge for land lock country,
Many people in Laos may not be well educated, but they are still smarter than you.
@耳耳 "Laos uses one percent of the potash mine it owns to pay off its debt". Laos is a net potash importer, not exporter. Therefore, Laos cannot pay off its debts using potash.
" Why is Laos not in debt, tell me? " Laos IS in debt! Total foreign debt: US$ 16 Billion = 88% of GDP. That's a very large debt load.
@耳耳 Key words here: " If the acquisition of potash fertilizer resources in Laos is successful". So far, potash imports into Laos are bigger than exports. Thus, no surplus to help pay back the loans.
@耳耳 I'm suggesting China is at fault here, but I am suggesting that the loans will be very difficult, almost impossible, for Laos to pay back.
Casinos are ILLEGAL in Laos! All forms of gambling is illegal and should any foreigner see the Chinese gambling please notify the local authority (jao na ti) and they will shut it down. If Chinese don't want to abide by the law then they can leave Laos.
our Laos brother, just like Sri Lanka now fall in Debt trap.
Becareful brother...there is no free money, and The Chinese is the master of that
China only own 10% of sri Lanka‘ debt.fool
@@2008ebs what?? China has refused to offer any concessions in debt repayment. Total debt to China stands at USD 8 billion, almost one-sixth of Sri Lanka's total external debt of USD 45 billion, The HK Post reported.
@@phongnguyen007 In that video, according to DW which is a German news media, China's portion of the Sri Lanka government's Debt is about 10%.
@@kkyykao189 the highest. And in Laos, the highest also.
As of now Laos has a 90% debt to gdp ratio - one of the highest in Asia - I hope the economy can recover in the long term. Even though countries like cambodia borrow a lot more money than Laos, Cambodia’s debt to gdp ratio is only 37%. The loans taken by Laos will be quite hard to pay off with a smaller economy, but I’m hoping Laos can rise.
yes all in on china. what could go wrong....
Hasn’t gone wrong for the last thousand years. Not until when the French showed up, and they were conquered and colonized. Then came the Americans, and they were bombed and killed.
That kind of reasoning has not credibility and value.
Or wait for the west and get bomb? O wait to late..
Better than what the West has been doing.
Laos doesn’t have much of economy to begin with. Economic ally of China makes sense so factories can move to Laos.
It‘s just another Sihanouk ville in Laos = another Chinese colonization in SEA
酸民又来了
@@gingarrison104 确实，过去几千年我们没像西方人那样去殖民别人，结果西方到了今天还用他们那破思维来考量我们的做法
No its not.
Yeah, that is how losers put it, when you can't compete, defame your competitor!
Lao's GDP has gone up. Increased in trade & tourism.
See a lot of economic improvement, but the main concern is the Chinese citizens will dominant everything in the cities. Soon or later everywhere will turn to China town and driving the Laotian to the country side, absolutely this will happened soon.
Your assumptions make no sense. Almost every country in the world has Chinatowns. Do you see the locals got pushed away?
The remark show your ignorance if not idiotic . Chinatown is a commercial hub for Chinese restaurants and shops and are patroned by local Chinese as well as other races .it is nit a residential area .. duh
the setup of Chinatown is approved by local government , I think the real owner behind Chinatown is the local government , who is the real winning owner behind ... hence Chinatown is just a symbol ... you should have some business savvy from the local government perspective 😁
People choose for themselves, so no worries.
Aboriginal (from: United States and Canada): yes!
A rare video without being full of ideological criticisms of China.
Oh, China does an exceptional job ruining its credibility and image on its own! 😂😆😂. Insecure adults tend to embarrass themselves even more,
France is good, it is the only semi-independent country in Europe, the US does not control France completely, 30% of the time France will report the true news
*... "fewer" ...*
People's tongue twists, especially media's, MSM's, they speak mainly for their own interests, their bosses interests and purposes.
Very rare for a neutral report. Wish the editor will not be dismissed because of this.
Those who do not know, Laos is the most bombed country by US.
In the world per capita
@@wegotit2587
Do you think the person would have enough intelligence to comprehend that?
Love🇨🇳 from ASEAN ❤️
Laos is landlocked and hilly and very poor. An access to the 'outside' world would be great.
Why don't the outside world come to Laos? Only embassies and car retails have come to Laos.
@Patrick Chong " ... it looks like this part of the 'net' loads of people are repeating the story of 'being landlocked', it is as if people from Laos are people with a lot of pity for themselves, I first notice it that foreigners start it ... Zwitserland is a landlocked country in Europe too ... "
The mindset behind the choice of words is at least small, if not evil. "...dominate the global trade"? Did you mean something similar to what the Europeans did in Africa, Asia and Americas starting 200 years ago?
She is a solid mother. Taught her boy to do business.
Nothing comes free
Listen people
There is always trade for free things
Lol half of the things written in chinese on these shops
It’s really unbelievable Chinese people build the high speed railway for Lao and I feel so luckily for Lao people! 👍💪💖🙏🇨🇳🇱🇦
Please let Laos be Laos and have some Laos side
The west could learn from Chjna
Awesome news between Laos and China. ❤
but isn't this a chinese town but not lao...
Xi always looks like a dad who doesn’t want to be at his kid’s school play.
Is that abnormal? It's not like he can decide his own schedule. There are plans. His activities are on behalf of the People's Congress
LMFAO! Most underrated comment here, but by far the best! 🤣
That's Chinese dad in general.
Weirdo !!
I remember the years of Laos Bombing by USA Airforce. This is much better. No War, no Tensions, Peace and Prosperity. Taiwan can learn of this China Laos project. China Taiwan United for Peace and Prosperity.
😂😂😂 the video color.
Something western should do to help less fortunate
The West can't even save itself. They are doomed.
OF Course almost half of his employees are not Chinese.
China is working for the prosperity of world though win win situation
❤️
Excellent reporting! This is the kind of journalism we expect from mainstream media.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
🙏🙏🙏
I request Zelensky to pray for ukranian people"s destiny this way as I teach him .
God bless zelensky.
When I get fear that some way I would die . ( Killed or poisoned or accidents or diseases or government police )
I prayed God ,God I should not die by my carelessness. ( Foolishness,)
What HOLY SPIRIT tells ,I should be careful about it .
Sometimes God himself stops us .
We can't do something.
This way God protects our life .
God's fire 🔥 goes before us consumes the ENEMIES of God.
Their plans.
Helps us escape their traps .
But no doubt we will die if it is God's will.
All our hairs are numbered.
But sometimes it is God's will that we must die .
Or sacrifice for a christian life .
Style of Jesus.
So I pray God to bless his children .
I am sure that we will not be dieing without God's will.
We must long like Apostle Paul.
He longed to die like christ .
We will raise one day .
Resurrection of our bodies.
We will have lot of Joy
Amen .
So during the fear of death ( killed )
1)
I pray that I shouldn't be careless.( Determined to be careful)
2) I pray God for his children of our church to live here on this earth like how Abirraham prayed .
Genesis 17;-
17Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” 18And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
WE MUST LIVE FOR OUR CHILDREN
WE MUST PRAY FOR OUR CHURCH
WE MUST PRAY FOR OUR CHRISTIANS .
WE MUST BE PARENTS.
I HAVE NO FEAR OF DEATH.
OR
AFTER DEATH I WILL SEE JESUS.
I WILL SEE MY DAD THERE .
MEMORIES OF MY DAD ARE HELPING ME 😂😂😂 FROM FEAR OF DEATH .
I WILL ALSO SEE THE CHRISTIANS WHOM I LEAVE HER E NOW ON THIS EARTH.
THIS IS OUR HOPE .
ALL PEOPLE MAY ONLY LONG TO LIVE .
SO GOD'S HAND MIGHT STOP THEM FROM KILLING US .
BEYOND THIS IF WE DIE WE DIE BECAUSE IT IS GOD'S WILL THAT WE MUST DIE .
SACRIFICE.
AMEN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It seems that the city & rail is built by Chinese for Chinese..
Benefit for Laos is only an after thought..
Looks like you are stooopid and un-educated.
bravo
Look like this Rail Line will end at sea port of Cambodia. Until now no chinese investment has bring prosperity but destruction.
SriLanka, Pakistan and few countries in Africa arw Bankrupt.
Laos will end up Bankrupt in a decade or before that.