David Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 2021-08-11

David Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik presented their work on Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. It was hosted online on 30 September 2020 (Wednesday) at 8:00 - 9:00pm by HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies. 

In Rivers of Iron, David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik examine one aspect of the China’s Belt and Road Initiative: its effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbours (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions.

Find out more about this event at https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/lampton-ho-kuik-railroads-and-chinese-power-in-southeast-asia