{"id":28780,"date":"2021-12-04T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2021-12-04T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:00:18","slug":"how-chinas-belt-and-road-is-connecting-southeast-asia-political-wariness-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28780","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s belt and road is connecting Southeast Asia, political wariness aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLast Thursday, Laos celebrated the completion of its first high-speed railway, a US$6 billion project backed by China. The inauguration came just a few weeks after Vietnam opened its first metro line in Hanoi, also built by China.These infrastructure projects are proof that Beijing\u2019s massive Belt and Road Initiative continues to break ground even amid a pandemic, with far-reaching implications for Southeast Asia. They will no doubt burnish Beijing\u2019s appeal as a vital partner in promoting\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3158184\/how-chinas-belt-and-road-connecting-southeast-asia-political?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLast Thursday, Laos celebrated the completion of its first high-speed railway, a US$6 billion project backed by China. The inauguration came just a few&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28781,"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\/28780"}],"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=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}