In recent years, much of the discussion around China’s “debt-trap diplomacy” has come from U.S. media and political hawks. In May 2019, then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of using ...

Laos' government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into "the battery of Southeast Asia" by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...

An alarming debt crisis has unfolded in Laos in recent years, raising worries about the tiny nation's obligation to its biggest creditor — China. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. China ...

The first stop is the Mekong River sunset selfie. Chinese tourists are bussed straight from the new high-speed train from Kunming to the ancient Lao city of Luang Prabang. They scramble up the 300 and ...

Staff members of the China Railway Group Limited (CREC) transport the medical face masks at the stockhouse of Lao Health Ministry in Vientiane, capital of Laos, April 22, 2020. Huang Hong, general ...

Laos is just one of the emerging markets where China’s green-tech revolution is installing more than cheap energy. Wind turbines from the Monsoon Wind Power Project in Dak Cheung, Laos, transmit power ...