{"id":1949,"date":"2021-02-27T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2021-02-27T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:00:22","slug":"china-laos-railway-may-be-badly-needed-good-news-for-beijing-and-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"China-Laos railway may be \u2018badly needed good news\u2019 for Beijing. And the region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostIn southwestern China\u2019s Yunnan province, there is great fanfare around the construction of a mega-railway link to neighbouring Laos, Southeast Asia\u2019s only landlocked country and one of its least developed.\u201cTo build the Sino-Laos Railway as a symbolic project of the Belt and Road [Initiative] and of the friendship between China and Laos,\u201d read huge bright-red banners proclaiming the project\u2019s significance at a construction site near Yuxi, China\u2019s tobacco capital in central Yunnan.The US$6\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3123306\/china-laos-railway-may-be-badly-needed-good-news-beijing-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostIn southwestern China\u2019s Yunnan province, there is great fanfare around the construction of a mega-railway link to neighbouring Laos, Southeast Asia\u2019s only landlocked country and one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}