Financed mainly by debt bro, they need to attract foreign investments fast enough to have a chance of not defaulting. Defaulting = capitulation of sovereignty to their debtor and we all know who the debtor is
A diplomat from Singapore (Kishore Mahbubani) was also arguing that it was a win for Global South with the Jakarta-Bandung HSR opening while HS2 in the UK was being shortened
Everything has a cost. All results have sacrifices. You can't expect to make money from tourism, but don't want to be impacted by the presence of tourists.
Laos was bombed into oblivion be the U.S., and the surviving population was used to see tshirts for a penny a day. So when you say “everything has a cost”, the country didn’t have many options-they were limited by U.S. hegemony, among other factors.
Don't think the locals are complaining as tourism brings in the much needed money and jobs. Only ones complaining are the western media, who does not like to see Laos progress and wants Luang Prabang to forever be a backpacker's haven.
Every age has its charm. I was in Luang Prabang in 1997 and again in 2013, and I'd be happy to go back and visit again. Some things will be worse than before, some will be better than before, and some will be the same. That's called development.
with you’re logic you’d justify anything and everything, as long as it was called “development”. As if the only way to develop one’s country is to debase and commodify your culture and the inhabitants. It may not be obvious at first, but when you think about it, it’s dehumanizing.
@@xx133 Look, this is only (or mostly) in Luang Prabang. There are so many other parts of Laos that will never be much affected by tourism. It's really no different from Venice in Italy, another city that is highly dependent on tourism. Both Venice and Luang Prabang will survive just fine.
Tourist complains because now every freaking country became wealthy and they cannot find village life. This is entitled behavior of the better-off people. They want others to be poor so the poor can serve them with their village life etc. These tourist should become farmers in 3rd world nation. Then they can have the village, rural and cheap life they so love
Laos has been one of the poorest countries in South east Asia if not Asia. I'm sure it's nice for some tourists to get their 'peace and quiet' for a few cheap bucks and then leave to go back to their nice developed countries and nice paying jobs. While the Laotions remain living out their lives making a couple of dollars a day. How else can they better themselves if not through more investment and well, more tourists.
Lao people don't complain. Lao people happy and welcome all of China to come enjoy beautiful nature and activities in LAOS. The More Chinese tourists visit the more Lao people gets to eat and live better.
Not everyone works in tourism, even Laos people appreciate `peace and quiet`. You can still have quality tourism w/o the need of loud karaoke boats... But that's the problem of local authorities & politic, so up to them.
there'd be some risks (throw in debt issues/debt traps, and political leverage from China), but no one may complain, especially given how much they're disillusioned with the opposite side, that is the West, who's known forever since recent years.. for war. A defensive war of attrition and political infighting perhaps. But so long if it actually benefits Laos and other nations without possibly harming them in the process., perhaps that sentiment may change and perhaps, I do want to see them thrive, assuming if it goes well and the West may someday change that sentiment as well (which given how other people see it, they wont)
Of course Laotian people make more money from the tourists and improve their quality of life Chinese Universities offer free Scholarship for Laotian students
Layer 1: intrusion of peace; layer 2: High increase of non-violent distractions, desires, emotions, needs; layer 3: There is extremely difficult and extremely easy depending on self. From meaningless comes meaning and knowledge. Even the reciprocal is true. When no knowledge and all meaningless, knowledge can still arise. Hence, it's all fine :)
The definition of 'slam' from the headline is to propel, which is a much better word to use than 'slam'. Slam seems to have a negative connotation though but it works on irking the audience. 😂
The different between western tourist and asian tourist is west love into quiet place and countryside while asian tourist love to shopping and big city.
No! White foreigners love po🎉verty 🎉(p)co rn 🎉so they can massage their egos and feel important about themselves which is why they don't like seeing poor countries develop and enjoying better quality of life.
@@beepbeep5153if the river ends in China then of course it’s yours but if it flows out to sea through other countries it doesn’t! You have no right to stop the flow either!
Unfortunately, this peaceful town being overwhelmed by huge numbers of tourists, often with little respect for local people and their customs, is not getting the balance right.
I went to LPB 6 years ago, and again 2 weeks ago. It felt totally different. The local people didn't seem as happy as before, there were heaps tourists everywhere, many of them Chinese indeed and many businesses had Chinese signs around their shops and hotels. Either to cater to Chinese tourists (understandable) or owned by Chinese. Never have i been to a place where to many hotels were sold out. If you'd look on agoda durign the weekend. You'd only find 10-20 hotels that weren't fully booked and they were all between 100-600 euro a night. I've literally never seen anything like that before and i feel sad to say to i will most likely not be returning to LPB.
'SLAMS'??? Why use such a misleading negative word when the locals appear happy about the increased income from tourism?? Is it because this is propelled by Chinese investments??
You expect the city to get hand outs from tax payers or you want them to have an economy to get out of poverty?? You want to keep it prestine, then forever subsidize the city with tax payer money then.
The title leaves out that 99% of the tourists are Chinese. China did the same thing to Venice Italy. Sent huge cruise ships of people there week after week and destroyed the city. Plenty of documentaries on that as well.
Italians don't mind thousands of Chinese workers in sweatshops in Florence to make their designer bags, but when it comes to tourism they want Germans instead. Of course, Italians always had a flexible moral compass. That's how they ended up on the winning side in both world wars.
@@temper44 I think what Italians want is for not so many tourists to flood a city that the city becomes entirely non functional. And I think they would say the same thing if it was Germans or Chinese lol.
LAOS have beautiful nature with many activities and adventures from north to south for everyone to enjoy. China always welcome to LAO!. China builds cities and creates jobs. The west and their allies have a hand in creating world conflicts.
A lot of people care when foreign tourists have no respect for the places they're visiting. Loud karaoke boat cruises are a dreadful curse that both locals and foreigners have to endure. You don't have to destroy the essence of the places you visit.
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Laos got high speed rail before the U.S. 💀
Financed mainly by debt bro, they need to attract foreign investments fast enough to have a chance of not defaulting. Defaulting = capitulation of sovereignty to their debtor and we all know who the debtor is
@@HolyEnchanta tbh, given the already polarized view of the Western world, some would prefer to be that way.
A diplomat from Singapore (Kishore Mahbubani) was also arguing that it was a win for Global South with the Jakarta-Bandung HSR opening while HS2 in the UK was being shortened
Everything has a cost. All results have sacrifices.
You can't expect to make money from tourism, but don't want to be impacted by the presence of tourists.
Sone make a profit while the overall communities only make losses.
@@thyristo that is how life works, especially in the capitalist ideology.
Laos was bombed into oblivion be the U.S., and the surviving population was used to see tshirts for a penny a day. So when you say “everything has a cost”, the country didn’t have many options-they were limited by U.S. hegemony, among other factors.
@@xx133 go go us
In this case, they are fools@@thyristo
Don't think the locals are complaining as tourism brings in the much needed money and jobs. Only ones complaining are the western media, who does not like to see Laos progress and wants Luang Prabang to forever be a backpacker's haven.
So agreed
Totally agree
Very True, that is the Western mind set
Every age has its charm. I was in Luang Prabang in 1997 and again in 2013, and I'd be happy to go back and visit again. Some things will be worse than before, some will be better than before, and some will be the same. That's called development.
with you’re logic you’d justify anything and everything, as long as it was called “development”. As if the only way to develop one’s country is to debase and commodify your culture and the inhabitants. It may not be obvious at first, but when you think about it, it’s dehumanizing.
@@xx133 Look, this is only (or mostly) in Luang Prabang. There are so many other parts of Laos that will never be much affected by tourism. It's really no different from Venice in Italy, another city that is highly dependent on tourism. Both Venice and Luang Prabang will survive just fine.
Tourist complains because now every freaking country became wealthy and they cannot find village life.
This is entitled behavior of the better-off people. They want others to be poor so the poor can serve them with their village life etc.
These tourist should become farmers in 3rd world nation. Then they can have the village, rural and cheap life they so love
I didn't hear a single local "lament" at all, they all liked the new in flowing income
The internet does exist, and search engines also exist. Tourism, according to locals, has “destroyed the peace”.
Laos has been one of the poorest countries in South east Asia if not Asia. I'm sure it's nice for some tourists to get their 'peace and quiet' for a few cheap bucks and then leave to go back to their nice developed countries and nice paying jobs. While the Laotions remain living out their lives making a couple of dollars a day. How else can they better themselves if not through more investment and well, more tourists.
You people renting and paying bills for the rest of your life talking bout “nice developed country”. You people are wage slaves and don’t even know it
Lao people don't complain. Lao people happy and welcome all of China to come enjoy beautiful nature and activities in LAOS. The More Chinese tourists visit the more Lao people gets to eat and live better.
Not everyone works in tourism, even Laos people appreciate `peace and quiet`. You can still have quality tourism w/o the need of loud karaoke boats... But that's the problem of local authorities & politic, so up to them.
Poor but Laos don't have slum or homeless ppls tents city like develop countries
That once serene peace and quiet was poverty, what's to lament about it missing.
China everywhere share the wealth not the war thats Chinese Culture peace and love
there'd be some risks (throw in debt issues/debt traps, and political leverage from China), but no one may complain, especially given how much they're disillusioned with the opposite side, that is the West, who's known forever since recent years.. for war. A defensive war of attrition and political infighting perhaps.
But so long if it actually benefits Laos and other nations without possibly harming them in the process., perhaps that sentiment may change and perhaps, I do want to see them thrive, assuming if it goes well and the West may someday change that sentiment as well (which given how other people see it, they wont)
Of course Laotian people make more money from the tourists and improve their quality of life
Chinese Universities offer free Scholarship for Laotian students
It think should named 'healing tourism' to release stress out from city live/work live
Layer 1: intrusion of peace; layer 2: High increase of non-violent distractions, desires, emotions, needs; layer 3: There is extremely difficult and extremely easy depending on self. From meaningless comes meaning and knowledge. Even the reciprocal is true. When no knowledge and all meaningless, knowledge can still arise. Hence, it's all fine :)
The definition of 'slam' from the headline is to propel, which is a much better word to use than 'slam'.
Slam seems to have a negative connotation though but it works on irking the audience. 😂
Catch 22 isn't it?
You want to boost economy but you don't want tourists coming in?
They want all FDI without tourist? Impossible 😅
The problem is that the Chinese are not smart enough to preserve environment.
The title is misleading, none of the locals ever said they didn't want tourists coming in
Easy: make it in a way so only a few rich tourists can come. This doesn't burden the infrastructure, environment and doesn't stress the locals.
@@Abebil3Make it expensive so only rich tourists can come.
The different between western tourist and asian tourist is west love into quiet place and countryside while asian tourist love to shopping and big city.
Western people are cheap!
Not true.
No! White foreigners love po🎉verty 🎉(p)co rn 🎉so they can massage their egos and feel important about themselves which is why they don't like seeing poor countries develop and enjoying better quality of life.
Specially old people from western love quiet place
This is beautiful ❤❤
No perfect situation. That’s life.
The Mekong River does not belong to China
The South China Sea is also not Chinese territory.
What ppl say to themselves to cope 😂
😂
@@beepbeep5153Not really! He states the truth, unless you can debunk it!
@@beepbeep5153if the river ends in China then of course it’s yours but if it flows out to sea through other countries it doesn’t! You have no right to stop the flow either!
@@AhmetTekin101 It's not healthy to be in constant denial arguing with other non-Chinese over here amounting to nothing 😂
laos and Thailand are similar places 💖
That’s because Laos and Thailand are brothers.
We need to unite again! 🇱🇦🇹🇭
@@flexianfeniks yes - for our country🏝
Western propaganda can't digest 🇱🇦 getting better and coming back to life
who cares this fail state
I love lao peoples❤. 😊I hope that when I retire from my job, I will settle in Laos and live in peace. Love fr🇮🇩
Just cos it's chinese investment it's a problem 😂
People want progress and improvement to their living standards. But they do not want any change. Not possible. Just have to find the right balance.
Unfortunately, this peaceful town being overwhelmed by huge numbers of tourists, often with little respect for local people and their customs, is not getting the balance right.
@@martinww17 the increase of tourism may be great, but it comes with risks.
It was much better when it was a two day boat ride
I went to LPB 6 years ago, and again 2 weeks ago. It felt totally different. The local people didn't seem as happy as before, there were heaps tourists everywhere, many of them Chinese indeed and many businesses had Chinese signs around their shops and hotels. Either to cater to Chinese tourists (understandable) or owned by Chinese. Never have i been to a place where to many hotels were sold out. If you'd look on agoda durign the weekend. You'd only find 10-20 hotels that weren't fully booked and they were all between 100-600 euro a night. I've literally never seen anything like that before and i feel sad to say to i will most likely not be returning to LPB.
If you don't like it, don't go there. No one is beging you to go. You just like Laos would be less busy with tourists, home of backpackers.
This is exactly how I felt avout Luang Prabang when I was there, and honestly, Laos in general. Vang Vieng is even worse.
china - laos train uninclude Vietam
'SLAMS'??? Why use such a misleading negative word when the locals appear happy about the increased income from tourism?? Is it because this is propelled by Chinese investments??
You expect the city to get hand outs from tax payers or you want them to have an economy to get out of poverty?? You want to keep it prestine, then forever subsidize the city with tax payer money then.
The high speed railway couldn't change it from a fail state to a developed country.
😂😂😂
they dont need to dive into polluted river for some coins to maintain their life.
@@schivver you’re still obsessed with coins divers! Lol
Agree that
Leave Laos alone and peaceful as it i's! No to mass tourism in Laos.
Tourists burden the infrastructure, damage the environment and are stressful for the locals.
Why must the Chinese ruin everything? The same thing happened to Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
The US donated 2 MILLION TONS OF BOMBS to Laos n the peoples will forever remember what the DEMOCRATIC wests did to them.!
Stop the cap. If it weren’t for China. Cambodia would be worst off than India.
Thailand pulled the tourism thing off somewhat alright. I can see Laos become real popular too.
The title leaves out that 99% of the tourists are Chinese. China did the same thing to Venice Italy. Sent huge cruise ships of people there week after week and destroyed the city. Plenty of documentaries on that as well.
Italians don't mind thousands of Chinese workers in sweatshops in Florence to make their designer bags, but when it comes to tourism they want Germans instead. Of course, Italians always had a flexible moral compass. That's how they ended up on the winning side in both world wars.
@@temper44 I think what Italians want is for not so many tourists to flood a city that the city becomes entirely non functional. And I think they would say the same thing if it was Germans or Chinese lol.
LAOS have beautiful nature with many activities and adventures from north to south for everyone to enjoy. China always welcome to LAO!. China builds cities and creates jobs. The west and their allies have a hand in creating world conflicts.
Who cares about a bit of loud noises when the economy is getting better.
A lot of people care when foreign tourists have no respect for the places they're visiting. Loud karaoke boat cruises are a dreadful curse that both locals and foreigners have to endure.
You don't have to destroy the essence of the places you visit.
Risky place to go
Chinese belt and road is debt trap.
it is real
that's your BS
@@Jen-xg3iqHave you ever read the conditions of Chinese loans?
That's true! 💯
Debt trap is a Chinese invention of the century.
Every country has a debt trap towards other countries lol!
Locusts has invaded everywhere with the OBOR initiative! STOP it!
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XI JINPING IS A STRONG AND WISE LEADER. UNDER XI JINPING CHINA IS SPREADING PEACE AND PROSPERITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
your statement is half of right。
Your statement is 💯 right. 👍
Thousands of Chinese are crossing the US Mexico border.
😘😘
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF CHINESE CROSSING THE BORDER
Communist country progressive by big wealthy communist country.. very beautiful big brother