Serbia actually suffers from a huge out migration issue, especially in the Novi Sad area - there is a sizeable Hungarian minority - who tended to be the more affluent, more educated, more European class. Many capable, educated Hungarians have moved abroad due to Serbian nationalism and better economic opportunity in Europe, leaving deficits in all sorts of Serbian industries, and giving space for Balkan dysfunction to thrive. Vucic presented himself as a guy who would be able to generate European like affluence from all of the dysfunction without submitting Serbia to EU rules (which would impinge on industry-gov't corruption nexus), keeping Serbia 'independent', proud, and accelerating the departure of young Hungarians that would be able to help build the Serbian economy, including decaying infrastructure. So, in steps China with it's BnR, loans, military offerings, etc and out the window went responsible governance that a viable independent state would need. There's also some monkeying around with the elections, people don't feel that they're being done honestly. Most people in Serbia want EU integration, not Chinese dregs. I'm surprised it was only 1,000 people, tens of thousands have been out protesting in Belgrade the last election. What makes it even more surprising is that Vucic has accused the protesters of being sponsored by Western powers - which makes his selling out of Serbia even more an issue.
According to Wikipedia the original building was constructed in 1964 and the life of this roof design was a maximum 50 years, after which the building was considered unsafe. They only began to renovate this in 2021 to 2024 it said that the Serbia’s plans were to keep the facade and roof as conservation, instead of redoing the whole thing with new materials which would likely have kept the material from the old roof from collapsing. If the plans from the customers don’t include a complete replacement then they can’t blame the construction company who is following the plans. The Chinese have built brand new trains and train stations for many places for decades with this issues. You need to blame the leaders who kept the unsafe parts who knows why, maybe to keep a historical part or to be cheap.
Congratulations to China 🎉🎉🎉 Belt and Road initiative is the best diplomacy in the world. Let's celebrate for Serbia's success. More countries to come .
China also made the BTSC monorails of Thailand. BTSC monorails in Bangkok Thailand have also experienced major problems . Both the Yellow and Pink lines are operated by subsidiaries of BSR JV Consortium, a joint venture between BTSC, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, and Ratch Group. A wheel fell off a Yellow Line train and hit a taxi on Thepharak Road in Samut Prakan province at around 6.30pm Tuesday. No casualties were reported. Suriya and other officials inspected the scene on Tuesday night and a preliminary investigation revealed that the rubber wheel could have fallen off due to a damaged ball bearing. Tuesday’s incident came just nine days after a 4-km length of electrical conductor rail became dislodged from the Pink Line monorail on Tiwanon Road in Nonthaburi province. Three vehicles were damaged but there were no casualties.
@@TheSmokey1523 Wrong. The major accidents that happened in Yellow Line and Pink Line were made by China. Both the Yellow and Pink lines are operated by subsidiaries of BSR JV Consortium, a joint venture between BTSC, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, and Ratch Group.
It baffles me how any country calling itself a democracy (of any type) can possibly allow NDAs that favor foreign countries involved in domestic (not military related) projects. Every country considering B&R work with China should preemptively work on constitutional level amendments that make such type NDAs null and void. That's just generically good policy unconnected with any "incidents."
The client (Serbia) sets the requirements, in this case NOT wanting renew the roof for..reasons. The roof collapses, who can you blame? Imagine you're renovating your house but you tell your contractor "don't touch my leaking rotting roof brcause........" Who's to blame when it collapses?
Serbia actually suffers from a huge out migration issue, especially in the Novi Sad area - there is a sizeable Hungarian minority - who tended to be the more affluent, more educated, more European class. Many capable, educated Hungarians have moved abroad due to Serbian nationalism and better economic opportunity in Europe, leaving deficits in all sorts of Serbian industries, and giving space for Balkan dysfunction to thrive. Vucic presented himself as a guy who would be able to generate European like affluence from all of the dysfunction without submitting Serbia to EU rules (which would impinge on industry-gov't corruption nexus), keeping Serbia 'independent', proud, and accelerating the departure of young Hungarians that would be able to help build the Serbian economy, including decaying infrastructure. So, in steps China with it's BnR, loans, military offerings, etc and out the window went responsible governance that a viable independent state would need. There's also some monkeying around with the elections, people don't feel that they're being done honestly. Most people in Serbia want EU integration, not Chinese dregs. I'm surprised it was only 1,000 people, tens of thousands have been out protesting in Belgrade the last election. What makes it even more surprising is that Vucic has accused the protesters of being sponsored by Western powers - which makes his selling out of Serbia even more an issue.
Good one... I completely missed this story. Unbiased China reporting as usual. By far, the best China watcher channel out there.
Thank you my friend - that comment means a lot 🤝
According to Wikipedia the original building was constructed in 1964 and the life of this roof design was a maximum 50 years, after which the building was considered unsafe. They only began to renovate this in 2021 to 2024 it said that the Serbia’s plans were to keep the facade and roof as conservation, instead of redoing the whole thing with new materials which would likely have kept the material from the old roof from collapsing. If the plans from the customers don’t include a complete replacement then they can’t blame the construction company who is following the plans. The Chinese have built brand new trains and train stations for many places for decades with this issues. You need to blame the leaders who kept the unsafe parts who knows why, maybe to keep a historical part or to be cheap.
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Congratulations to China 🎉🎉🎉
Belt and Road initiative is the best diplomacy in the world.
Let's celebrate for Serbia's success.
More countries to come .
Piss off wumao!!
China also made the BTSC monorails of Thailand.
BTSC monorails in Bangkok Thailand have also experienced major problems .
Both the Yellow and Pink lines are operated by subsidiaries of BSR JV Consortium, a joint venture between BTSC, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, and Ratch Group.
A wheel fell off a Yellow Line train and hit a taxi on Thepharak Road in Samut Prakan province at around 6.30pm Tuesday. No casualties were reported.
Suriya and other officials inspected the scene on Tuesday night and a preliminary investigation revealed that the rubber wheel could have fallen off due to a damaged ball bearing.
Tuesday’s incident came just nine days after a 4-km length of electrical conductor rail became dislodged from the Pink Line monorail on Tiwanon Road in Nonthaburi province. Three vehicles were damaged but there were no casualties.
I remember that recently happened in Bangkok too, their MRT/monorail concrete collapsed from very high up. Miraculously nobody was hurt...this time.
Buddha saved those people
The Bangkok MRT was built by Siemens a German company and a private Bangkok firm.
@@TheSmokey1523 Wrong. The major accidents that happened in Yellow Line and Pink Line were made by China.
Both the Yellow and Pink lines are operated by subsidiaries of BSR JV Consortium, a joint venture between BTSC, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, and Ratch Group.
It baffles me how any country calling itself a democracy (of any type) can possibly allow NDAs that favor foreign countries involved in domestic (not military related) projects. Every country considering B&R work with China should preemptively work on constitutional level amendments that make such type NDAs null and void. That's just generically good policy unconnected with any "incidents."
Step 1 : lie with snakes
Step 2 : get bit
Step 3 : vigil
In all seriousness, good for the Serbs for not taking this lying down.
What a tragedy! You are correct I didn’t know much about this.
The client (Serbia) sets the requirements, in this case NOT wanting renew the roof for..reasons.
The roof collapses, who can you blame?
Imagine you're renovating your house but you tell your contractor "don't touch my leaking rotting roof brcause........"
Who's to blame when it collapses?
this is a distraction
@@AddisTime Distraction from what?
Did you want another culinary travel food review or more Johnny Somali?🤔
Wait till the investigation is completed. Everything else is pure speculation.
They really need to open the file. Keeping all the BRI projects so secret is not a good look. Needs transparency.