High-speed rail project derails the lives of residents who live near a construction site while providing the promise of a better quality of life for others.
Ecuador’s largest hydroelectric power plant, the controversial China-built Coca Codo Sinclair project, with financing from China, is facing internal and external challenges.
China wants to establish high-speed train service from its southern Yunnan province, across the Mekong and ultimately down into Singapore, as part of its Belt and Road Initiative aimed at increasing its access to the Indian Ocean. If it comes into being over the next decade, the network will pull neighboring Southeast Asian countries closer to Beijing. Thailand is pivotal to that plan, but some have raised questions about the wisdom of the project.
