built strong enough to carry ARMOR tooo!!! dumb asses...
Posted on 12/13/2007 2:49:26 PM PST by charles m
HONG KONG — On a frontier where Vietnamese and Chinese soldiers exchanged bullets in a short but bloody war three decades ago, construction workers from the two countries will soon join forces to build a highway that promises to bring new wealth to their once heavily guarded border regions.
Plans for a four-lane highway from Hanoi to Kunming are expected to clear the last hurdle on Friday, when the board of the Asian Development Bank gives the green light to a loan that will underwrite the Vietnamese side of the project.
By 2012, when the highway is supposed to be completed, cars, buses and trucks should be able to speed people and goods between northern Vietnam and southern China, opening the prospect of a significant new economic development zone in Asia.
A journey that now takes three days by truck could take just nine hours. Goods made in China’s Yunnan Province would have quick access to the Vietnamese seaport of Haiphong, and Vietnamese exporters should be able to reach untapped markets in China.
Both governments are now vastly more interested in markets than in strategic jostling. The highway is one of several transport infrastructure projects integrating the economies of northern Vietnam with southern China.
“I think the integration will be of mutual benefit,” said Ho Quang Minh, a director general in Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment, in a telephone interview from Hanoi. “Southern China is a very big potential market, not just for Vietnam, but for other countries. On the other hand, China can utilize the seaport facilities in northern Vietnam and obtain a short cut to other countries of Southeast Asia.”
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Conversely, it will also be able to speed troops, trucks, tanks, etc. right into northern Vietnam.
“4 Lanes of Hope”. Sweet headline. If only the NYTimes had such affection for the U.S..
True. Modern highways are a beautiful means of moving military quickly.
PRC vs SRVN, I wouldn’t know who to root for.
But I hope the Vietnamese have all the bridges dialed in to their arty.
Ahhh...the benefits of free trade w Commie China and Commie Vietnam!
Lets all link hands and sing Kumbaya....along w the “Internationale”. We can add in REMs Shiny Happy People, too
At least now Vietnam will get easier access to those killer Commie Chinese toys
It would Commies killing commies. Red on Red, literally.
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Maybe we can help them build an eight laner.
huge targets too. and if there’s a lot of bridges, potential death traps as well.
“Conversely, it will also be able to speed troops, trucks, tanks, etc. right into northern Vietnam.”
True, but given how badly the Vietnamese as a nation hate the Chinese, that would be a bad idea for the Chinese. The Vietnamese hate the Chinese a lot more than the Poles hate the Russians, for example...
built strong enough to carry ARMOR tooo!!! dumb asses...
Just ask Saddam......
Yes...only if you have air superiority at the least, and air supremacy preferred.
This should help spead up troop and equipment movements in a time of war. Considering Vietnams growing trade level, I am sure their ports are modern to one degree or another.
China doesn’t need Vietnam except as a market. Also, a corridor to Alaska is in planning.
Just ask any Tibetan - it’s all about ease of access for Chinese troops.
How quick the Viet commies forget 1000 years of Chinese domination!
Would be good to see more articles about an even more important spoke / trunk road leading out from the Shanghai Cooperation Axis / aka Fourth Reich ... the Kunming-Bangkok Motorway.
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