Ship me to the cartels in Latin America – https://freedomalternative.com/donate/fund-latin-american-tour-of-2024/
Lao PDR, because it’s formally referred to as nowadays, is the place the place a lot of the widespread assumptions about younger societies, communist nations, South East Asia and some different issues go to die.
All the pieces you thought you knew seemingly would not apply right here. All the pieces chances are you’ll be tempted to logically assume, could not apply right here.
How did a communist State find yourself turning a big spiritual celebration right into a capitalist competition, all whereas the officialdom may be very cautious to be seen doing the correct Buddhist observance with the event?
Let’s discover!
Hyperlinks:
KAYSONE PHOMVIHANE, LAOTIAN PRESIDENT, DIES – https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1992/11/22/kaysone-phomvihane-laotian-president-dies/c04e169e-34da-476f-8fc0-0222b4072fd5/
Quick Historical past of Laos, A: The Land in Between – https://silkwormbooks.com/products/short-history-of-laos
Lao, Chinese language Officers Detain 771 in Raid on Golden Triangle Playing Hub – https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/lao-chinese-officials-detain-771-in-raid-on-golden-triangle-gambling-hub/
Thailand’s Amata eyes Laos as a hub for Chinese language manufacturing exodus – https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Thailand-s-Amata-eyes-Laos-as-a-hub-for-Chinese-manufacturing-exodus
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Are you chinese or japanese?
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Pho-communism
gr8 video
much love
05:40 Vietnamese people also still refer to the H'mông living within their borders as "Mèo people".
06:35 "No religion" in both the PR of China and the SR of Viet-Nam are also mostly people who believe in animistic folk religion. Most Chinese and Vietnamese believe in a semi-animistic polytheistic non-unified beliefs. In fact, Korean Shamanism and Japanese Shintoism are very similar to Chinese and Vietnamese folk religions and even share many of the same Gods. The main difference is thst there is a political idea in China and Viet-Nam to classify these superstitious as "non-religious".
14:25 One thing that people rarely bring up is how students all over the Western World (not just the US, also in Sweden, West Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Canada, Etc.) all flew the Viet-Cong flags while protesting the war. This would be like students flying the Al-Qaeada and Taliban flags during the War on Terror. Heck, the Taliban has won for a couple of years now and you still see the old flags of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and not the Taliban.
In Communist countries, "a unifying enemy" only comes in the form of an enemy they couldn't defeat and has humiliated them in the past. Remember that the United States lost the South Vietnamese Civil War, the Laotian Civil War, and the Cambodian Civil War, why be bitter against an enemy whose asses you've already kicked? The North Koreans and the Cubans are the only Communists bitter at the USA.
In China they are bitter against the Japanese because of World War II, the Vietnamese are bitter against the Chinese because of the Chinese invasion that occurred during the 1970's of which the Vietnamese psyche still hasn't recovered. Just say ANYTHING good about Mainland China around any Vietnamese and they will go absolutely nuts, like Chinese do against the Japanese, and Koreans and Cubans against the Americans.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, these smaller Communist countries started begging the US for aid, like how Angola's regime was propped up by Soviet money, then American money after the Cold War ended, and now by Chinese money as a Second Cold War has already (kind of) started. Note that it was the same leader, he just pretended to have changed for every donor nation.
A lot of people tend to foget just how dependent half of the world was on Soviet cash right until 1991 and how after the fall of the Soviet Union many Socialist regimes lost their trading partners and economic networks. This is why it was so easy for the Ameeicans to just come in and pick up where the Soviets left. The WTO basically established pro-American (or rather, pro-establishment) global trade rules, "we will lower our tarifs if you accept our ridiculous laws and regulations and implement them in your own". Remember, free trade is never free. (That is, libre trade is never gratis.)
42:00 I genuinely enjoyed the corruption in Hanoi, if you need to do something in the Netherlands and the government says that you jave to wait 8 weeks it isn't unusual for those 8 weeks to become 16 up to 52 weeks. If they say something takes 2 weeks in Viet-Nam you can pay someone under the table and those 2 weeks turn into 2 days.
Getting a permit for anything in Europe takes forever, getting a permit in Viet-Nam is relatively easy because you can pay someone under the table and have a cup of tea with them.
It doesn't matter how much money you have in the West, both multi-millionaires and people on welfare have to deal with the same slow inefficient system.
Corruption in the Netherlands is different, here most corruption isn't based on who pays officials under the table but based on what contractors get government approval. This is purely based on who the unelected bureaucrats like (usually it's some Woke company or any other establishment company).
While Vietnamese corruption is "pay to win", Dutch corruption is either guanxi in rural areas or "Woke to win" in major cities.
Usually you bribe officials to have to deal with less regulations, China has more regulations on its books than any country in the world yet below the major companies China has a freer market than anywhere else in the world because of how easy it is to bribe low level officials.
In the West, there are tonnes of regulations and you can't escape them. If you do manage to bribe an official some nosy NGO will find out about it and finance lawyers to sue everyone involved. Especially if your project benefited the people.
Great job, no bias documentary about Laos. I'm a former Lao refugee (escaped from Laos in 1981). Will check out your previous videos. Keep it up with good work
These are great videos!
Great Job!
CCP props up this dictatorship