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Titolo: China's 120mph railway arriving in Laos

un chiaro esempio di imperialismo cinese, il Laos pagherà tutto il costo 
dell'opera pur non potendo assolutamente permetterselo a tutto vantaggio 
della Cina e dei suoi interessi geostrategici...
 
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/laos/10572583/Chinas-120mph-railway-arriving-in-Laos.html
 
 
China's 120mph railway arriving in Laos
China's mammoth engineering project to construct a railway from 
southwest China’s Yunnan Province all the way to Singapore is set to 
transform rural Laos
 
By David Eimer, Oudomxai9:00PM GMT 14 Jan 2014
Like most of his 6.5 million fellow countrymen Galong Vue has never seen 
or set foot on a train.
But the 53-year-old farmer knows all about the high-speed railway from 
China that will run through his village in northwest Laos.
“We first heard the rumour that the railway would come through here in 
2010,” he says “Then the Chinese came to survey the land last year. They 
told me the railway will happen for sure and that a train station will 
be built here.”
 
Sometime this year, Mr Vue’s village of Naseam Kham will be gone, 
replaced by a state-of-the-art railway station capable of accommodating 
trains that cruise at 120mph. Judging by a Chinese promotional video 
seen by The Telegraph, the station will dwarf every building in the 
nearby town of Oudomxai that it will serve.
 
Beijing has long dreamed of a high-speed railway connecting it to 
southeast Asia, enabling Chinese goods to move south in greater 
quantities, while the natural resources of its neighbours travel north 
to China.
Now, the line is set to become a reality, one that will draw the region 
even closer in to China’s economic embrace.
 
Last year, the secretive leaders of Laos, a one-party communist state 
run by the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, met with China’s premier Li 
Keqiang. They described the project as a “priority” and called for the 
formal agreement to build the railway to be “signed soon”.
Starting from Kunming in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the railway 
will travel south through neighbouring Laos and then into Thailand.
Ultimately, it will extend all the way to Singapore, via Malaysia. Other 
branches of the network will reach into Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Constructing it will be a mammoth engineering task. It will require 154 
bridges and 76 tunnels, as well as 31 train stations, just to get the 
line the 260 miles from Boten on the Laos-China border to Laos’ capital 
Vientiane. An estimated 20,000 Chinese workers will be needed to build 
it, with the completion date set for 2019.
Land-locked Laos will be transformed by the railway. A largely 
agricultural nation where the average annual income is a mere £720 and 
many people, like Mr Vue, live without running water or electricity, 
Laos lacks both industry and infrastructure.
Currently, the country boasts just two miles of functioning railway track.
Operated by Thailand, it runs across the Thai-Laos frontier close to 
Vientiane. Few Lao people have ever travelled along it.
Laos, though, does have minerals such as potash and resources like 
rubber that China craves.
With China already the second-largest investor in Laos, after Vietnam, 
many locals fear the railway is further evidence of how their country is 
set to become an economic vassal of Beijing.
 
“Of course Lao people are worried about the impact of the railway and 
the number of Chinese coming here, but the reality is that we can’t stop 
the Chinese. They are everywhere already and there are so many of them. 
If they want to come to Laos, they will,” said a teacher in Oudomxai who 
asked to be known by the pseudonym Tou Vang.
Chinese residents now make up around 15% of Oudomxai’s population of 
30,000. Chinese-owned hotels, shops and restaurants line the roads and 
the street signs are in both Lao and Mandarin.
“You won’t find a single Chinese person in Oudomxai who doesn’t want the 
railway to happen. It will bring more Chinese people and more business 
for us,” said Ah Hai, a 27-year-old from Guangzhou in southern China, 
who moved to Oudomxai two months ago to run a shop front gambling 
operation catering to Chinese punters.
Yet despite the vast economic disparity between Laos and its giant 
neighbour, it is Vientiane which will foot the bill for the rail link.
Using untapped minerals as collateral, Laos plans to borrow £4.5 billion 
from Beijing to pay for its section of the railway. Equivalent to almost 
90 per cent of Laos’s annual GDP of £5.2 billion, the loan will 
instantly make Laos the world’s fourth most-indebted nation after Japan, 
Zimbabwe and Greece.
Many international financial bodies regard the loan as a disaster 
waiting to happen. The Asian Development Bank has described it simply as 
“unaffordable”.
 
Just servicing the yearly interest on the loan will amount to almost 20% 
of Laos’s annual government spending, according to Tristan Knowles, a 
director of Economists at Large, a Melbourne-based think tank, who has 
made a study of the financial implications of the railway.
“Where are they going to find that money? I imagine they will have to 
prune every part of the government budget,” said Mr Knowles.
All that is holding up the railway is Thailand. Beijing is believed to 
be waiting for the Thai parliament to approve a planned £41 billion 
infrastructure upgrade, which will include a high-speed rail line from 
the Laos border to Bangkok, before signing off on the loan.
That bill is expected to pass within a couple of months and will 
guarantee that the railway reaches the increasingly lucrative Thai market.
Mr Vue and his fellow villagers, though, appear to be on the fast track 
to nowhere. “The government hasn’t spoken to us about compensation,” he 
said.
“It’s one thing to improve the country but we need something too. All we 
have is our land. If we lose it, we won’t be able to do anything.”

 sbocco alle provincie cinesi dell'interno, rimaste povere: 100 milioni.
 
e uno schiaffo in faccia al Vietnam traditore della Resistenza e filoyankee. Che abbaino pure per le Spratley, i reietti del CPV, il Progresso andrà avanti senza i rinnegati.

 e uno schiaffo in faccia al Vietnam traditore della Resistenza e filoyankee. Che abbaino pure per le Spratley, i reietti del CPV, il Progresso andrà avanti senza i rinnegati.
 
i compagni dell´NPA, gli ultimi maoisti rimasti nell´Asia-Pacifico, le chiamano Isole dell'Indipendenza (Kalayaan).
 
Considerati avvisato: fa' autocritica o farai la fine a cui sono destinati tutti i servi di Deng e del capitalismo yankee in Asia.

 i compagni dell´NPA, gli ultimi maoisti rimasti nell´Asia
 
difficile che ci possano essere altri maoisti al di fuori del Partito del Compagno Mao. In ogni caso, non è un anticomunista come te a poter dare lezioni di veromaoismo.


 
"preferisco annusare merda francese per cinque anni piuttosto che merda 
cinese per tutto il resto della mia vita"
 
Ho Chi Minh, 1946

 Am.
 
ï¿œ probabile che si innesti in quel discorso, ad ogni modo ï¿œ ormai ben 
chiaro chi rappresenti il 'socio di maggioranza' che gestisce il denaro, 
a tutto svantaggio dei paesi piï¿œ deboli

 Am.
 
non sequitur... :-)

 difficile che ci possano essere altri maoisti al di fuori del Partito del Compagno Mao. 
 
quello che ha dichiarato ufficialmente la rivoluzione culturale `la grande tragedia della nazione´?
 
perche' e' questo che, sotto pena di laogai, si insegna nelle scuole cinesi eh.

 Ho Chi Minh, 1946
 
le citazioni decontestualizzate sono l'ultimo rifugio delle canaglie.
Nel '46 il fascista Chiang Kai Shek aveva invaso con 200.000 soldati il Vietnam.
Ma quando il PCC andò al potere, HCM accettò ben volentieri l'aiuto del compagno Mao per addestrare i vietminh