A New Road Binds Southeast Asia
April 3rd, 2008 | by This is China! |The International Herald Tribune reported a couple days ago:
“On Monday, the prime ministers of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam will officially inaugurate the former opium smuggling route as the final link of what they call the “north-south economic corridor,’ a network of roads linking the southern Chinese city of Kunming to Bangkok spanning 1,800 kilometers, or 1,100 miles.”
Something for everyone involved in the construction of the Road:
“Today, those same Southeast Asian civilizations alternatively crave closer integration with that empire and fear its sway as an emerging economic giant. China, in turn, covets the land, markets and natural resources of one of Asia’s least developed and most pristine regions.”
And check out a previous post about the Suzhou Industrial Park developing another park like itself in Laos as China signs a new economic cooperation agreement with Laos.
