{"id":457400,"date":"2021-12-20T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457400"},"modified":"2021-12-20T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:53:19","slug":"laos-opens-scenic-railway-built-on-a-mountain-of-chinese-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/laos-opens-scenic-railway-built-on-a-mountain-of-chinese-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Laos opens scenic railway built on a mountain of Chinese debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laos opened a new $6 billion rail link with China to much fanfare this month, but analysts warn the party could be short-lived as the government grapples with a potential debt crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The line will connect the capital Vientiane with the southern Chinese city of Kunming, and there are grand plans for a high-speed rail network running to Singapore through Thailand and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith at the opening heralded a &#8220;new era of modern infrastructure development&#8221; for the impoverished country, adding that &#8220;the dreams of Lao people have come true&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laos opened a new $6 billion rail link with China to much fanfare this month, but analysts warn the party could be short-lived as the government grapples with a potential debt crisis. The line will connect the capital Vientiane with the southern Chinese city of Kunming, and there are grand plans for a high-speed rail network running to Singapore through Thailand and Malaysia. Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith at the opening heralded a &#8220;new era of modern infrastructure development&#8221; for the impoverished country, adding that &#8220;the dreams of Lao people have come true&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}