Dumb Laos Concedes= means, give up, grant, allow, permission, etc for
100+ years to the Chinese to build town, lurxury homes, so the wealthy
Chinese can move int.
This is one of the hundreds of projects that Dumb Laos give land to
other countries. South sold to Vietnam, West give it to Thailand,
North to China, and now Vientiane to China.
History repeat itself now. Fagum gave it to Cambodian in 1300's for
exchange for a pussy, Soupanovouy gave it to the Vietchong for a
pussy. When the Siams (Thai) came, Dumb Laos said Ok, Vietnam came,
Dumb Laos said Ok, Chinese came Dumb Laos said ok, French came, Dumb
Laos said ok, Japanese came Dumb Laos said ok, America Came Dumb Laos
said OK.
If the Hmong Come, Dumb Laos will said OK too. Hmong People, let's
rock and roll. North of Vientiane before the Dumb Lao give it to
others.
Our elders said that Dumb Lao is nothing to the Hmong. We can chase
them for 30 days, they will be hungry and surrender.
For the Hmong Pro Laos, you better do something before the land is
gone.
Freedom Too
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2007/12/05/lao_china/
BANGKOK--Laos has agreed to a major land concession to Chinese
investors to develop a Suzhou-style "model city" on the outskirts of
the country's capital, Vientiane, according to a well-placed source in
Laos.
Under the terms of the agreement, China will hold the site--several
hundred hectares around the That Luang Buddhist monument--on a 100-year
lease, with permission to develop surrounding marshlands, a Lao
government official told RFA's Lao service.
The official, who declined to be named, was concerned that the Lao
government had signed over the land in lieu of the repayment of
hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars' worth of interest-free loans.
"In this area, China has a program to build a new city like Suzhou--
which is renowned for tourism, with its many bridges and variety of
trees and vegetation," the official said. "In addition, they will
build a development of luxurious homes for wealthy Chinese, and in
addition, thousands of Chinese families will move in and live on this
land."
Luxury homes
The official said he was unsure why the government would allow
potentially large numbers of Chinese nationals to come and live in the
area, to the northeast of the Lao capital.
He said he feared the establishment of a large "Chinese city" close to
That Luang, which is a potent monument to Lao nationalism.
China's presence in Laos has intensified rapidly since it organized a
financial bailout of the impoverished country in the wake of the Asian
financial crisis.
Since 2000, Beijing has poured money into Lao infrastructure,
including a "land bridge" through which Chinese goods can flow into
Thailand.
Pha That Luang, which means "Great Stupa" in Lao, was built in the
16th century under King Setthathirat on the ruins of an earlier 13th
century Khmer temple. This was built, according to tradition, on the
remains of a third century Indian temple built by Buddhist
missionaries.
Relics of the Buddha are said to be kept in the stupa, whose
architecture includes many references to Lao culture and identity, and
has become a symbol of Lao nationalism.
China has also expressed a strong desire to increase imports of
natural resources from Laos, including timber, iron ore, copper, gold,
and gemstones.
In 1997, China helped bail out the Lao economy by increasing aid,
trade, and investment through a series of bilateral agreements
covering economic and technical cooperation, investment and banking,
and infrastructure development.
Crisis loans
Beijing also provided generous export subsidies and interest-free
loans which enabled Laos to stabilize the value of its currency during
a crisis in 1998-99 to the tune of U.S. $1.7 billion, according to
official Chinese media. The new relationship was cemented with the
visit by then President Jiang Zemin to Laos in November 2000, the
first by a Chinese head of state, and Beijing agreed to cancel much of
the Lao debt in 2003.
Two-way trade grew from U.S. $33.1 million in 1990 to U.S. $118.3
million in 2003, much of it in China's favor, according to figures
compiled by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). China is officially
Laos's third biggest trading partner, although far more trade is known
to occur unofficially across their common border than is ever recorded
by officials.
In 2004, the government-controlled Vientiane Times said the cumulative
total of Chinese investment in Laos since 1988 had reached U.S. $342
million, making China one of the top three foreign investors. Experts
say China and Vietnam are strategic competitors for influence in Laos.
Original reporting by RFA's Lao service. Service director: Viengs