The China-Laos Railway is no longer an infrastructure experiment. By August 2026, it had carried more than 90 million tonnes of cargo since opening in December 2021, including more than 21 million tonnes across the China-Laos border. Yet the most revealing question now sits at the railway's southern end, in Vientiane, where Thanaleng Dry Port is supposed to convert cross-border traffic into Lao economic value. As late as October 2024, its develo…
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