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  • Опубликовано: 13 сен 2023
  • Welcome to Laos, a small country of 7.2 million people in South East Asia that was bombed into oblivion by the USA for nine whole years. But now China has come to show the locals that foreigners aren't always there to cause harm.
    In this short documentary, we will travel from Kunming in southern China's Yunnan Province to to the Laos People's Democratic Republic, stopping off at Boten, Luang Prabang, and the capital, Vientiane.
    VIEWER REVIEW: "Through stunning visuals and insightful narration, the documentary not only highlights the engineering marvel of the railway but also delves into the cultural richness and resilience of the people along its path. It's a powerful reminder that infrastructure can be a catalyst for positive change, bringing communities together and fostering economic growth."
    Laos is landlocked, meaning it doesn’t have any access to the sea. It’s surrounded on all sides by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and of course China to the north.
    That geographical difficulty, and the fact that Laos is littered with 80 million unexploded bombs dropped by the US from 1964 to 1973, has stymied the country’s ability to develop, leaving it one of the poorest countries in the region.
    The tide has started to turn in Laos’ favor, though, after China helped build the county’s first railway, connecting its capital city, Vientiane, with Kunming in southern China’s Yunnan province.
    That’s where I got on-board, eager to visit Laos for the first time and find out how this railway has changed the lives of locals, and started transforming Laos from landlocked, to land-linked.
    All up, we'll take a journey of 1,000 kilometers through gorgeous, wild terrain and bomb-littered wasteland, meeting and chatting with interesting people along the way, including a developer, a local student who learned how to build railways in China, a man who has spent 20 years dealing with the aftermath of the 270 million bombs dropped all across Laos by the USA, a local journalist, and a railway official.
    #laos #railway #china

Комментарии • 1,5 тыс.

  • @sugiantoyusuf5229
    @sugiantoyusuf5229 11 месяцев назад +690

    80 million unexploded bombs cannot defeat it's beauty. A wonderful country. Thanks for the trip, Andy!

    • @panyaboonc5621
      @panyaboonc5621 11 месяцев назад +97

      Google it. Over 270 million cluster bombs were dropped on Laos. A poor country that is too poor and weak to fight back a big bully.
      At the time of the bombing, Laos population was less than 4 million. That work out 67 bombs for every Laos citizen.

    • @sugiantoyusuf5229
      @sugiantoyusuf5229 11 месяцев назад +60

      @@panyaboonc5621 Thank you for the info. This is beyond evil.

    • @syncmaster915n
      @syncmaster915n 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@panyaboonc5621 These numbers are just staggering! They show Americans held and continue to hold no regards towards people of other countries. Just a few days ago, POTUS Joseph Biden referred this part of the world (SE Asia) as Third World countries when speaking to the people from this region, live! The world needs to wake up to the hypocrisies of the US and the atrocities it has committed since the end of WW2.

    • @vestasharp6861
      @vestasharp6861 11 месяцев назад +1

      The worst part is that the US goes around the world and preaches human rights meanwhile they are not willing to clean up their own bombs.

    • @user-pr1ll1zy4n
      @user-pr1ll1zy4n 11 месяцев назад

      Evil USA! Can't even tell the US to collect them because they will give then to Ukraine or drop them on other countries!

  • @ronchow2010
    @ronchow2010 11 месяцев назад +750

    A great, informative video Andy. I am still appalled by the fact that with the huge number of bombs dropped into such a small, defenseless country, there has been no accountability demanded by the world.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +97

      I am sure one day they will be forced to pay.

    • @putianren
      @putianren 11 месяцев назад

      @@ReportsOnChina
      Only upon the collapse of US.
      Wishful thinking ??

    • @darkcloud5830
      @darkcloud5830 11 месяцев назад

      The US is a coward and that is how cowards fight. The Vietnamese were killing Americans in the jungles, so they probably thought Laos would do the same.

    • @willengel2458
      @willengel2458 11 месяцев назад +74

      US bombers simply opened its bomb bay after their sorties in N. Viet-Nam before they landed in Nong Khai, Thailand.
      Viet-Nam had the same believe as Indians, the Viet-Namese believed they're the inheritor of what the French left behind and attempted to annex Laos and Cambodia. China thought otherwise, and that's why Laos and Cambodia stay sovereign.

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад +21

      @@ReportsOnChina Unless the Paris Peace Agreement can be restored. There were bombs and mines in Laos, the bombs from America and the mines from north Vietnamese commie.

  • @kurtstromer147
    @kurtstromer147 11 месяцев назад +410

    I am horrified at the amount of bombs dropped on Laos, the effects of it still felt 50 years later!! This was by any standard a crime against humanity! I’m glad that China is doing what they are to help and develop that beautiful country.

    • @chrispek3912
      @chrispek3912 11 месяцев назад +1

      US is unapologetic for the cluster bombs they dropped on Laos and they plan to send more cluster bombs to Ukraine.

    • @johnsmith1953x
      @johnsmith1953x 11 месяцев назад

      Laos needs to sue America for several TRILLION dollars $$$$
      Survivors of WW2 STILL sue Germany TO THIS DAY for BILLIONS.
      Where are the lawyers?!

    • @nomadtribe862
      @nomadtribe862 11 месяцев назад

      CHINA has killed millions of Tibetans in order to Capture Tibet (formerly an independant autonomous country ) . Everybody has got their hand red at least se times in recent history.

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад +8

      Yes 👍👍

    • @achtungbaby2009
      @achtungbaby2009 11 месяцев назад

      usa bomb destroy & kill. China build develop & progress.

  • @user-rr9rt9qj4k
    @user-rr9rt9qj4k 11 месяцев назад +585

    260 million bombs being dropped on a small defenceless country. The most heavily bombed country in history. The culprit portrays itself as the champion of human rights. Hypocrisy.

    • @beatricewan9958
      @beatricewan9958 11 месяцев назад +41

      It's lunatic! 😠

    • @qinminwan5835
      @qinminwan5835 11 месяцев назад +34

      Exactly.

    • @haniahannslew4108
      @haniahannslew4108 11 месяцев назад +66

      It’s 260 million TONS of bombs. It’s missing the word Tons in your comment. That’s how brutal that’s on small peaceful nation that didn’t do anything bad to the united states or didn’t fight a war with the united states.

    • @beatricewan9958
      @beatricewan9958 11 месяцев назад +62

      @@haniahannslew4108 ,Yet US dared criticize blantantly the human rights of other countries

    • @jimmylam9846
      @jimmylam9846 11 месяцев назад +31

      @@beatricewan9958 In Cambodia too !Then was Anglo world with guns.

  • @josephtsui125
    @josephtsui125 11 месяцев назад +346

    If you had made an hour long documentary, I still would have watched it all. Not only that, I would watch it again.
    Your documentary was beautifully shot; the contents were well organized and presented. The interviews were very naturally conducted; there were no indications of staging or acting.
    In summary, A job well done. It really showcases your talents in all aspects.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +23

      Thanks so much for the kind words!!

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 11 месяцев назад +7

      I totally agree with you. Mr. Boreham's documentaries are always first-class.

    • @johnleong4807
      @johnleong4807 11 месяцев назад +6

      Thank you Andy for sharing the beauty of care, love and to bring a better understanding of Loas and its people. The country had been badly damaged by the American war. Connectivity of railway from China to Loas has proven to bring good luck, peace, harmony and prosperity to the people.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda 11 месяцев назад +1

      joseph shows he is a fan of fairy tales!

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 11 месяцев назад

      @@earlysda And you admirably demonstrate that you are full of s**t

  • @alhassangangu4357
    @alhassangangu4357 11 месяцев назад +731

    This is why countries choose China instead of the west

    • @samtat5873
      @samtat5873 11 месяцев назад

      Totally 100% agree with you. Yes it's so true. Especial that evils country always love to dropped bombs to other thrid countries and killed many incident people. They think they are super power which they want to control the whole world. But lucky there are still have to super power here to protecting the world and people peaceful living which China & Russia. Long live 🇨🇳🇷🇺❤️🫶🫰👍

    • @beatricewan9958
      @beatricewan9958 11 месяцев назад

      China builds, the West and America destroy!

    • @PheejThao
      @PheejThao 11 месяцев назад

      USA bombs and China builds. It is really simple really.

    • @Go4Broke247
      @Go4Broke247 11 месяцев назад

      True, The West would be all over China, if it was China that did the bombing. The Hypocrisy.

    • @chew5461
      @chew5461 11 месяцев назад

      According to BBC reporter and a US academician, Vietnamese people prefer US to China.

  • @AnnieT369
    @AnnieT369 11 месяцев назад +231

    All the best for a brighter future for Laos.

    • @willengel2458
      @willengel2458 11 месяцев назад +4

      and the same is true for Central Asia, all landlocked countries. it was the former Kazakh president who brought up the old silk road issue with China.

    • @Treasure_hunter_21
      @Treasure_hunter_21 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@willengel2458, he suggested, but China made it in reality.

    • @nganvo840
      @nganvo840 11 месяцев назад

      They're in debt and inflation

    • @willengel2458
      @willengel2458 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@nganvo840 didn't Vietnam sign on with Japan to build HSR?

    • @nganvo840
      @nganvo840 10 месяцев назад

      @@willengel2458 we're having a plan..not sure but 2030 will more clearly , I guess will be china contractor coperate
      tbh Lao their inflation is 15% very high 5 month ago and debt to IMF ,thailand,vietnam

  • @MightySteve001
    @MightySteve001 11 месяцев назад +394

    Let's hope the Laos railway brings prosperity to the country. It had suffered enough during the
    Vietnam war. Good luck to Laos and to its people.

    • @MightySteve001
      @MightySteve001 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@tonyl7337
      How did the Chinese railroad bring prosperity to Sri Lanka and Pakistan ?.

    • @antediluvianatheist5262
      @antediluvianatheist5262 11 месяцев назад

      @@MightySteve001 It didn't.
      Because Tony is an idiot.

    • @weirdno.1uniqueno.173
      @weirdno.1uniqueno.173 11 месяцев назад +35

      @@tonyl7337 Where's the close to 90% debt owed to japan, imf, world bank by Sri Lanka? Does this 90% debt suddenly become invisible to your eyes or are you really blind? Why make a fuss over roughly 10% debt owed to China?
      As for Pakistan, so far the economics relation are so far so good with China, why not mentioned the usa dirty hands and those of western economies (imf / world banks / etc) that meddle around inside Pakistan?

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@tonyl7337you Indian stalking China again in your heart you know its not true at all but you being Indian trying your hardest to bad mouth china

    • @SaretGnasoh
      @SaretGnasoh 11 месяцев назад

      @@tonyl7337 here we go with brainwashed victim of china debt trap propaganda

  • @oldtechie6834
    @oldtechie6834 11 месяцев назад +78

    Laos is a beautiful country.

  • @peteREpete72
    @peteREpete72 11 месяцев назад +300

    Absolutely wonderful video about how China is truly developing infrastructure in other nations. Something that the US would never do as they are too busy destroying nations with their forever wars and illegal sanctions.

    • @xiongnu6373
      @xiongnu6373 10 месяцев назад +1

      And you have the gust to have a picture of usa flags. Smh. You should tell your american to do better.

    • @peteREpete72
      @peteREpete72 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@xiongnu6373 I changed my picture 🇷🇺

    • @xiongnu6373
      @xiongnu6373 8 месяцев назад

      @@peteREpete72 🤟🏻

  • @williamwall1967
    @williamwall1967 11 месяцев назад +148

    Great doco Andy. Very casual and chatty. And what a great development! And a great example of the BRI - mutually beneficial outcomes for all!

  • @putianren
    @putianren 11 месяцев назад +187

    Sawdee.
    Honestly, I am so happy for the people of Laos.
    Now no longer a landlocked COUNTRY.
    My first trip to Laos was an overland trip by 4x4 convoy in the 90'
    Took us 3 days & 3 nights of driving to reach the Mekong river
    then cross it to Vientiane.
    It was a memorable journey.
    But at that time, saw people was very poor, sad to say.
    But now with the HSR, the people are no longer poor.
    Also, soon Laos will be one of the fastest growing economy
    in South East Asia if not the fastest.
    Wish all the people of Laos
    BEST of LUCK.

    • @Iceyfire12
      @Iceyfire12 11 месяцев назад +1

      Well the HSR doesn’t exactly make the Laotians wealthier but the ones investing from outside of Laos will be richer! Though the Laotians should get priority jobs but that probably won’t be the case! It would go to the Chinese that knows Mandarin and learns Laotian! Laos will develop but not exactly for the sake of Laos! The Laotians don’t even control their own Electricity and is owned by their neighbor which Thailand does purchase Electricity from! Until Thailand builds their HSR Laos will be good for next 12 yrs!

    • @Nina_1107
      @Nina_1107 11 месяцев назад +18

      @@Iceyfire12如果中国当年也像你的的看法一样,那就没有现在的中国了。

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@Nina_1107yes exactly

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@Iceyfire12you seem so ungrateful if you're so clever and concerned do something about the bombs can you? no for you bombs aren't important as slagging of a country who helps

    • @inkbold8511
      @inkbold8511 11 месяцев назад +4

      @Iceyfire12 🤡

  • @davids7403
    @davids7403 11 месяцев назад +101

    Really excellent, Andy. The China-Lau railway one of the great projects of he BRI.I didn’t think the Americans would let it be completed. Happy to be wrong.

    • @Iceyfire12
      @Iceyfire12 11 месяцев назад +7

      Well the US doesn’t see Laos posing any threat of any kind so they probably didn’t meddle and knew Chinas grasp on Laos was thorough so they couldn’t grasp much!

    • @Pet-lovers31
      @Pet-lovers31 11 месяцев назад +7

      I remembered the US criticised that it was a debt trap imposed on China!

    • @jchung5265
      @jchung5265 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@Pet-lovers31there is a lot of to carry out a nord stream act, this does not require experienced divers…

    • @Treasure_hunter_21
      @Treasure_hunter_21 11 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@Iceyfire12yeah American freedom bombing and imf collar are always preferable to Chinese grasp😂😂😂😂

  • @binghuang2359
    @binghuang2359 11 месяцев назад +7

    The fact that Laos is littered with 80 million unexploded bombs dropped by the US from 1964 to 1973.... You did a great job , Andy! The human race will not eliminate war in this century, but we can reduce the brutality of war by a talented and honest young reporter like you, Andy! The aftermath of the war was so horrendous that it shocked the world ....Where is CNN ???

  • @Dinerell
    @Dinerell 11 месяцев назад +237

    "We bombed Laos more than any square inch of anywhere", literally bombed nearly every inch multiple times. It's one of the worst of atrocities in the world measured by the shear disregard of care for human lifes. Randomly dropping bombs over a whole country is more evil than genocide (it's only about the personality of the people doing that).

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 11 месяцев назад +1

      The world is beginning to see who is the Evil Empire.

    • @willengel2458
      @willengel2458 11 месяцев назад +5

      US bombed it because of the Ho Chi Minh Trail used to supply NVNA. Bombers also emptied their bombers when they flew back to Nong Khai, Thailand. it's safer to land without bombs.

    • @simontse168
      @simontse168 11 месяцев назад +56

      ​@@willengel2458why don't the bomber empty the bombs at their own base instead of someone yard stop making excuses for warmonger

    • @chew5461
      @chew5461 11 месяцев назад

      How come not one so called "democratic" country dares bring up the "Genocide" committed by the US???????? The Western countries, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are cowards and hypocrites.

    • @johnsmith1953x
      @johnsmith1953x 11 месяцев назад +1

      Again, Laos needs to sue America for several TRILLION dollars $$$$
      Survivors of WW2 STILL sue Germany TO THIS DAY for BILLIONS.
      Where are the lawyers? This is EASY $$$$$ as 1, 2 , 3.

  • @nostradamus2642
    @nostradamus2642 11 месяцев назад +54

    Andy, great doco video. It's great to be able to see what Laos is like, China Laos relations in 2023 and to understand the legacy of the criminal bombing of the country by the US.

  • @janicetone2313
    @janicetone2313 11 месяцев назад +67

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am close to my 80's. I REMEMBER! Let the Western nations see and learn. The victims should not be forgotten; especially the innocent children killed and maimed by the cluster bombs, shrapnel, fire bombings.
    Thank you again for not turning away.

  • @watarukawakami8134
    @watarukawakami8134 11 месяцев назад +71

    Thank you Andy for this wonderful work!

  • @josechong8207
    @josechong8207 11 месяцев назад +157

    Thank you, Andy, for documenting the positive changes the China-Laos railway has brought to this landlocked country. In regard to the bombing campaign that lasted as long as it did, my heart aches for the lives lost and injured by this heinous and incomprehensible act.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +9

      Thanks Jose, here’s hoping the deaths and injuries will get less and less.

    • @josechong8207
      @josechong8207 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@ReportsOnChina 🙏🙏

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda 11 месяцев назад

      jose, Here you are, able to freely criticize America, while you are using an American company's platform, something that China won't allow you to do.
      Hypocrite.

  • @balkanleopard9728
    @balkanleopard9728 11 месяцев назад +70

    A beautiful country and people blighted by yet another of America's shames. Shame America, shame, shame, shame!

    • @bartholomewsitoh7492
      @bartholomewsitoh7492 11 месяцев назад +4

      Unfortunately america knows no shame and is still brimming with hubris

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@bartholomewsitoh7492I totally agree with you.

    • @robertonavarro7713
      @robertonavarro7713 11 месяцев назад

      Great empires/countries rise and fall. There are no exceptions.

  • @po6174
    @po6174 11 месяцев назад +73

    Awesome video! Also, a very inspiring example of cooperation between countries to improve people’s lives.

  • @Wellyyoung
    @Wellyyoung 11 месяцев назад +28

    I have learnt so much about Laos from this mini doco. Brilliant work. Thanks Andy.

  • @steveweaver4436
    @steveweaver4436 11 месяцев назад +37

    That documentary went by in the blink of an eye, I think that shows just how interesting and informative it was. Cooperation and mutual benefit are the way forward, good luck to all these enterprising and brave people.

  • @louiserobinson9776
    @louiserobinson9776 11 месяцев назад +65

    The video is worth waiting for. I didn’t want it to end! The scenery is absolutely mesmerising and the contents informative. Next year when I go to Hong Kong I’ll definitely join a tour to visit Laos. Thanks Andy for a good job well done!!

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +3

      I’m really happy you liked it, and that you didn’t feel it was too long - I was worried people would be bored with 22 minutes of video!

    • @gz8546
      @gz8546 11 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@ReportsOnChinatoo short for me, i was just getting warmed up, btw great work bro :)

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@ReportsOnChinaHahaha, some of us have a longer attention span than 22 minutes. A fine documentary sir.

  • @Lobstersaladyum
    @Lobstersaladyum 11 месяцев назад +55

    Amazing insight. Great job Andy. Beautifully presented. I hope to see more videos in the future documenting the development of Laos and wishing the people of Laos a prosperous and peaceful progression in their lives❤

  • @vestasharp6861
    @vestasharp6861 11 месяцев назад +34

    What a fantastic documentary. Very informative. You should make more of these.

  • @richardk2550
    @richardk2550 11 месяцев назад +36

    Very professional production.I like the camera work very smooth. Should make more video like this. Your work is much better than some TV production. Thanks for your hard work.

  • @OFamtan
    @OFamtan 11 месяцев назад +93

    I have immensely enjoyed this documentary. Thank you Andy!
    Hopefully if you have the time and the funds, maybe you can make this into a series. BRI initiative through your lenses.
    Also hopefully you garner more fans through this series, thus carry over your message broadly.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +14

      Great suggestion! I’ll head to Indonesia this week to film part two. 😁

    • @1proudytfan
      @1proudytfan 11 месяцев назад +5

      ​​@@ReportsOnChinaGreat. Selamat datang ke Indonesia. I was born there. Looking forward to that episode and be watching from Tamaki Makaurou

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@ReportsOnChinagreat to hear that hope to see more thank you subscribed

  • @vonduus
    @vonduus 11 месяцев назад +26

    Sorry, I missed the premiere, but I am watching the documentary now! Cheers from Denmark!

  • @abyyy490
    @abyyy490 11 месяцев назад +20

    Liked the video. Love from India. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳❤️🇱🇦🇱🇦

  • @PeterSzeto-es6em
    @PeterSzeto-es6em 11 месяцев назад +24

    Watching it with tears in my eyes. Thank you for making this documentary.

  • @stennetmang
    @stennetmang 11 месяцев назад +81

    as long as the US doesn't step in any country it is always a peaceful country,china and laos partnership is a win win situation,let this peaceful nation last forever

    • @theragoooverlord5021
      @theragoooverlord5021 11 месяцев назад +1

      Really ? Yet everyone from those peaceful nations always thinks about moving to America though.

    • @jonhappleseed8144
      @jonhappleseed8144 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@theragoooverlord5021Really, everyone? Have you asked all of them?

    • @theragoooverlord5021
      @theragoooverlord5021 10 месяцев назад

      @@jonhappleseed8144 I don't have to. It's a given I can just look at pictures from 50 years ago and then go for a walk outside and notice the difference...same applies to any west nation actually

    • @SB-do1bu
      @SB-do1bu 10 месяцев назад

      @@theragoooverlord5021look what happen to the Philippines. American turn that to a trash filled country

    • @user-og2ow8it8z
      @user-og2ow8it8z 10 месяцев назад

      @@theragoooverlord5021美国是个霸权国家,但美国也是发达国家,对其他发展中的国家人民来说美国的生活还是比较吸引人。

  • @skywire5595
    @skywire5595 11 месяцев назад +39

    Very professional reporting

  • @donlod322
    @donlod322 11 месяцев назад +46

    What a beautiful country...the hills, greens, wide pedestrians walkways and main streets, and cleanliness seen in this video if maintained would bring Laos to be the most beautifull country in southeast asia. Keep it up, Laos. Regards from Indonesia ❤....oh and thankyou Andy!!

  • @donatwu3128
    @donatwu3128 11 месяцев назад +96

    I got off from bed at 6 in the morning & watched this immediately. Yes, this is a very good documentary, Andy. Thanks for that. It looks like that the immediately next friend country to substantially connect to this transportation infrastructure is Cambodia. It will strategically provide land links to Bangkok to its west & Vietnam to its east, as well as direct access to the South China Sea via its seaport. China will definitely cooperate with & help Cambodia to achieve this. This will be testimony to China's consistent foreign policy to help under-developed, willing & sincere countries to stand on their own feet through fair win-win cooperations without meddling with their domestic affairs. China uses the principle of "teaching & equipping others to fish instead of just handing out fish" for sustaining growths & developments. On the contrary, US uses the principle of "offering small fish as baits so as to drug/manipulate its targets" to work according to its private agendas for maintaining its global empire. Countries of the world are not stupid & will take their right opportunities as they come.

    • @hongqingxiang3374
      @hongqingxiang3374 11 месяцев назад +5

      🙏👍🙏

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад +3

      Beautifully said👏👏👏

    • @donatwu3128
      @donatwu3128 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@amiithan4992 Thanks, Ami.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda 11 месяцев назад

      Donat, here you are, able to freely criticize America, while you are using an American company's platform, something that China won't allow you to do.
      Who's the hypocrite?

  • @josephinesee8976
    @josephinesee8976 11 месяцев назад +31

    Thank you for posting this video,Andy. I was in Vientiane and Luang Prabang seven years ago. Love the nature there, and hopefully with more tourists visiting Laos, they leave their footprints and not destroying the country.

  • @darimalau9828
    @darimalau9828 11 месяцев назад +38

    Andy's humanity and down-to-earth sincerity is deeply touching.

  • @Brick-Life
    @Brick-Life 11 месяцев назад +89

    The train is amazing and the stations are very majestic and modern

    • @heleneallane6444
      @heleneallane6444 10 месяцев назад

      Because of China 🌈💫🚄

    • @heleneallane6444
      @heleneallane6444 10 месяцев назад +1

      Long live friendship between Laos and China 💐🐼🌈

  • @alf7326
    @alf7326 11 месяцев назад +24

    Marvellous documentary. Thanks for the vicarious tourism and education. Now, I'm hankering for more of these kind of videos. 😊

  • @btopkimo
    @btopkimo 11 месяцев назад +48

    Beautiful country!

  • @danysl2008
    @danysl2008 11 месяцев назад +502

    How could the world forgive US for crime against humanity every where. Thanks Russia, North Korea and China for standing up against such brutality.

    • @haniahannslew4108
      @haniahannslew4108 11 месяцев назад +49

      Totally agree

    • @JS-ih7lu
      @JS-ih7lu 11 месяцев назад

      Through US propaganda, the US can make its victims forget anything. The US colonized the Philippines, dropped nuclear bombs on Japan and those countries love the US so much they want to become US proxies in a war with China. Even Vietnam is cozying up to the US after 20 years of literal invasion 😂

    • @craigrik2699
      @craigrik2699 11 месяцев назад +34

      Agree!

    • @sstaing1062
      @sstaing1062 11 месяцев назад +41

      Hopefully one day take them to world crime trials for their crimes

    • @yaelz6043
      @yaelz6043 11 месяцев назад +13

      I just wish they would really stand up against it.

  • @dragonfly02490
    @dragonfly02490 11 месяцев назад +62

    Great video. You guys did a great job. Nice narration, beautiful camera work, the content is interesting, and the flow and pace are nice. Very professionally done.

  • @iwantmorenews557
    @iwantmorenews557 11 месяцев назад +82

    Finally got proof that Andy is a real human and not a studio generated AI

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +22

      I could be a walking AI robot!

    • @milkdrinker7
      @milkdrinker7 11 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@ReportsOnChinaHuawei dunking on the rest of the world...

    • @haniahannslew4108
      @haniahannslew4108 11 месяцев назад +4

      😂😂😂 Good one 👍

    • @hongqingxiang3374
      @hongqingxiang3374 11 месяцев назад +3

      🤣😅😂👍🙏@@ReportsOnChina

  • @panyaboonc5621
    @panyaboonc5621 11 месяцев назад +86

    Over 270 million cluster bombs were dropped on Laos and up to 80 million did not detonate. And Laos is one of the poorest country in the region.
    If you have the brain to think, ear to hear and eye to see, this is obviously a big bully only capable of bullying poor country that are too poor and weak to fight back.
    At the time of the bombing, Laos population was less than 4 million. That work out approximately 67 bombs for every Laos citizen.

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      North Vietnamese commie transported weaponry and servicemen to invade south Vietnam through Laotian and Cambodian territories.

    • @Callisto-wf7mw
      @Callisto-wf7mw 11 месяцев назад

      The best way for world to achieve peace is for the United States to be a peoples republic and turn communist.

    • @janicetone2313
      @janicetone2313 11 месяцев назад

      I don't think the US has learned anything; cluster bombs AND depleted uranium were sent to Ukraine.

    • @wyz9815
      @wyz9815 11 месяцев назад

      US only dare to bully small or weak country like Lao, Iraq, Afghanistan..etc, but when facing big countries, like Russia or China, It NEVER dare to face it by itself, it will not only call for group of allies have a group fight again one, but hide behind the scene using proxies, what a jerk and coward!

    • @ajl2845
      @ajl2845 5 месяцев назад

      The bomb was meant for Vietnam, Laos is a peaceful country, they had nothing to do with the war, unfortunately they were the recipients of the bomb because they are located close to Vietnam

  • @josepharmoko807
    @josepharmoko807 11 месяцев назад +16

    Andy documentary welcome back again ❤

  • @raymondtay9442
    @raymondtay9442 11 месяцев назад +93

    Hi Andy, I've been to Laos before a couple of times (before the opening of the HSR). Going there again next month with some friends, so your video is giving us additional information about places to visit. Looks like Boten would be on our list, taking the HSR to the northern end of the country. Thank you.

  • @johnli6782
    @johnli6782 11 месяцев назад +163

    Beautiful land, poignant history, and a story beautifully told.

  • @lexneuron
    @lexneuron 11 месяцев назад +14

    Marvelous and brilliant documentary! Thanks Andy!!! 💯💯💯💯💯👍!

  • @ZenLH
    @ZenLH 11 месяцев назад +26

    Excellent document video. BRI 🇨🇳🤝🇱🇦👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Uniq0
    @Uniq0 11 месяцев назад +24

    What a beautiful country that I knew almost nothing about. Super interesting and well edited video. Thanks a lot Andy!

  • @holypen77
    @holypen77 11 месяцев назад +32

    Great work Andy!

  • @troutstalker4744
    @troutstalker4744 11 месяцев назад +16

    A fabulously done mini documentary. Thanks andy, cheers!!.

  • @FrankiePo89
    @FrankiePo89 11 месяцев назад +23

    Wonderfully done, thank you.

  • @sosochio4374
    @sosochio4374 11 месяцев назад +22

    Thank you for making this documentary! Very informative.

  • @debscatena
    @debscatena 11 месяцев назад +23

    Great documentary!

  • @willsims6748
    @willsims6748 11 месяцев назад +34

    This should have been an hour long... Much appreciated nonetheless, Thank you.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +1

      It probably could have been, to be honest! 😁

    • @madelinkoh
      @madelinkoh 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@ReportsOnChina Hi Andy, I truly enjoyed this video, even though is within ASEAN countries yet we don't know much of them , so sad but not anymore. If you have the > 1 hour version, would appreciate. Love from Malaysia

  • @kenkz3570
    @kenkz3570 11 месяцев назад +23

    Great documentary, nice interviews, nice footage and awesome BGM, well done Andy, thank you for your story.

  • @Tube4mj
    @Tube4mj 11 месяцев назад +17

    Loved this video. Well done Andy. Cheers from Australia.

  • @mesoizo7682
    @mesoizo7682 11 месяцев назад +16

    That was an excellent piece to watch and learn, thanks Andy! Hoping for more in the future!

  • @hsheuw
    @hsheuw 11 месяцев назад +70

    Andy, you can't not do the same documentary for Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung HSR. Please make it happen!

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +7

      😜

    • @emkoh2746
      @emkoh2746 11 месяцев назад +7

      YES 🙌 GREAT suggestion 👍👍. 💯 % support! Andy! Come on! 😂

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +22

      I may or may not be heading to Indonesia this week to film part two… 😊

    • @weinasg1371
      @weinasg1371 11 месяцев назад +11

      如果需要采访雅万高铁的印尼人,Andy,我可以帮你问问我教过的印尼学生,他们就是得到了中国给的奖学金,在中国读了大学,然后继续在雅万高铁工作的高材生。

    • @hsheuw
      @hsheuw 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@ReportsOnChina It’s about time that Indonesians liberate themselves from misguided ideas like election / democracy / religious extremism and start embracing Singapore / China-style Meritocracy, Pragmatism and Honesty.
      When they see a bule (an Indonesian umbrella term for any westerners, regardless of nationality) like you preaches such message, it can certainly prove as a potent reassurance :).

  • @kasemsanthongsawan
    @kasemsanthongsawan 11 месяцев назад +23

    Thank you, Andy. Loved it.

  • @lorainejones41
    @lorainejones41 11 месяцев назад +63

    I hope AI will find an easy way to detect the bombs and robots to take them away, all paid for by my country of course. It breaks my heart what was done to these innocent beautiful people of Laos. Thank you Andy for this beautiful documentary.😢❤ The future looks bright with landlinked Laos both to sell products goods agriculture and tourism.

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 11 месяцев назад +2

      That is what America does best: bomb and invade and destroy. It is called American Exceptionalism.

    • @amiithan4992
      @amiithan4992 11 месяцев назад +6

      Another wise American

    • @lorainejones41
      @lorainejones41 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@amiithan4992 thank you, but my opinion is completely shut out in the USA, that's why I quit voting, until the dollar collapses nothing will change.

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 10 месяцев назад

      @@lorainejones41 America lies, China tells the truth. Here is the latest fun story about the Chinese spy balloon ruclips.net/video/zgWv3kXUn10/видео.htmlsi=_E98LZ4-tYpVKTd-

  • @dannyboy8850
    @dannyboy8850 11 месяцев назад +17

    Andy excellent video introducing the Laos countryside and people... 👍

  • @johnmccormack4183
    @johnmccormack4183 11 месяцев назад +11

    Excellent Andy! Thank you.

  • @Kuasarakyat2
    @Kuasarakyat2 11 месяцев назад +17

    Thank you for this beautiful documentary 💗🙏

  • @desmondho9567
    @desmondho9567 11 месяцев назад +15

    Andy, great indepth on Loas. Great documentary 👍👍❤❤

  • @caleblu7119
    @caleblu7119 11 месяцев назад +39

    China: I have a gift for you Laos. It's a railway system.
    The US: I have a gift for you Laos. It's 80 million bombs!

    • @j.d.3269
      @j.d.3269 11 месяцев назад +5

      80 million bombs left to explode!

    • @dalang8872
      @dalang8872 10 месяцев назад

      @@j.d.3269 very sad 😔 😢

    • @heleneallane6444
      @heleneallane6444 10 месяцев назад

      Yes you are right and well said 👍👌

  • @daniellee8720
    @daniellee8720 11 месяцев назад +16

    Thanks Andy for such a beautifully crafted and edited project.

  • @JO-et2ir
    @JO-et2ir 11 месяцев назад +15

    Agent orange was also used on Laos.

  • @greenbug3335
    @greenbug3335 11 месяцев назад +13

    Andy, you do such a great job. Thank you from all the truth you tell. May you have long life and good fortune. 👍

  • @josefez
    @josefez 11 месяцев назад +20

    Thank you for this! Great work. ❤

  • @gozilaarts
    @gozilaarts 11 месяцев назад +16

    Great documentary! 👍👍

  • @TomasGrahamb-bq9zr
    @TomasGrahamb-bq9zr 11 месяцев назад +14

    Laos I loved Ur film on laos and I will truly say this the train will beat any of my Countries trains in Scotland not only the where I stay in central Scotland there city is cleaner than any of our town where I stay .and I say to the Laos people I loved what I've seen in Ur country👍

  • @craigrik2699
    @craigrik2699 11 месяцев назад +27

    Beautiful and sad at the same time. I worked in Cambodia in 1991 helping to clear mines, terrible situation there and here, in Laos … for a long time

  • @angelus2563
    @angelus2563 11 месяцев назад +61

    Thanks for this interesting documentary, look forward to watching more of this. I didn't know US dropped so much bombs just because the country is next to Vietnam. The US had violated Laos for nine years for no reasons. Glad people of Laos are building their country for better and they picked China engineering. Good choice.

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      North Vietnamese commie used Laotian and Cambodian territories to penetrate south Vietnam with weaponry and servicemen, that led to American bombing Cambodia and Laos to destroy north Vietnamese commie's invasion.

    • @hclau218
      @hclau218 11 месяцев назад +1

      If you have a chance to talk to some old military guys, you will realise that the Americans had bombed and wiped out whole villagers.. Killed everyone in countless villages. The Americans are the real murderous monsters, but goes around screaming "human rights". Non Whites have no rights, bcos the US military don't considers them "Humans". I am sick of Asians brainwashed and idolising the Americans.

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад +3

      After America pulled out of Indo-Cochin peninsula 1973, north Vietnamese commie sent 50,000 troops to overthrow Royal Laotian regime, occupied Laos for 14 years from 1975 to 1989.

    • @fannyalbi9040
      @fannyalbi9040 11 месяцев назад +7

      exactly the western news cnn, times magazine etc never tell.

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      @@fannyalbi9040 Similarly, Vietnamese commie's media never tell the truth also!

  • @gl7252
    @gl7252 11 месяцев назад +14

    Excellent!

  • @claudiamorf9545
    @claudiamorf9545 11 месяцев назад +18

    Thank you Andy for this excellent portrait, so beautifully filmed. I'm so happy for the lao people to finally be linked to China.

    • @cosmoray9750
      @cosmoray9750 10 месяцев назад

      Well this is interesting.....Look this up on yT.
      " Canada 'Spied' On Indian Diplomats; West Shared Intel On India's Role In Nijjar Probe | Report "

  • @floriapun4289
    @floriapun4289 11 месяцев назад +15

    Really enjoy this documentary, very informative 👍👍Thank you Andy🙏🙏❤️❤️

  • @ethanngo11
    @ethanngo11 11 месяцев назад +83

    Great documentary Andy. Keep educating the people out there who still thinks the Global West are the good guys.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda 11 месяцев назад

      ethan, sure, this was a great documentary, if you like fairy tales.

    • @ethanngo11
      @ethanngo11 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@earlysda tell me which part is made up like a fairy tale? Looking forward to your response.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda 11 месяцев назад

      @@ethanngo11ethan, here you are, on a "Global West" company's platform, using technology developed by the "Global West", to put down the "Global West", while you cannot do a similar thing on a Chinese company's platform.
      .
      You fulfill to a "T" the definition of "Hypocrite".

  • @PL22-JudgeDredd
    @PL22-JudgeDredd 11 месяцев назад +36

    Great video. Its sad that Laos had to deal with the unexploded bombs. I understand it took two years to clear the unexploded bombs along the China-Laos Railway before it could begin construction. No words can describe the atrocity committed against Laos by the US, evil & inhumane even seem inadequate.

  • @stanbimi
    @stanbimi 11 месяцев назад +21

    Excellent reporting. Obama should visit Laos again with his family, and take a tour of the heavily bombed regions.

  • @Anonymous------
    @Anonymous------ 11 месяцев назад +6

    I'm the original creator of the "USA bombs. China builds" meme! Thank you for using it.👍

  • @Masterysky
    @Masterysky 11 месяцев назад +13

    Amazing documentary unseen elsewhere

  • @pquach00
    @pquach00 11 месяцев назад +35

    My heart goes out to the Laos people who got caught in the Vietnam war!

  • @geopaulet923
    @geopaulet923 11 месяцев назад +12

    The US dropped hundreds of bombs in Laos and left the country and it’s people living in ruins. China comes in to help build the country and transform the lively hood of the people.

    • @patrickwu6052
      @patrickwu6052 11 месяцев назад +2

      hundreds? no, millions!

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      What about millions of mines north Vietnamese commie laid there?

    • @LisaTao
      @LisaTao 11 месяцев назад

      Hundreds of millions 😢

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      @@LisaTao Yes, hundreds of millions of bombs from America and mines from Vietnamese commie.

    • @directxxxx71
      @directxxxx71 11 месяцев назад

      260 million bombs and one-third of them (80 millions plus) unexploded but they still injure and kill a few dozens every year.
      The National Regulatory Authority for the UXO/Mine Action Sector (NRA) of Laos recorded 31 UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) accidents over the course of 2021, in which 44 people were injured and 11 died.

  • @yungchia4512
    @yungchia4512 10 месяцев назад +4

    Good job. I don't usually finish watching a whole documentary film but just couldn't stop halfway for this one!

  • @emkoh2746
    @emkoh2746 11 месяцев назад +10

    This is like a thriller Andy! Can’t wait! 🥳🥳

  • @reis1185
    @reis1185 11 месяцев назад +11

    Transit-oriented development is nice.

  • @Nemo_Anom
    @Nemo_Anom 11 месяцев назад +11

    Andy, I have been watching your videos for a couple years now. I'm just a poor mixed-race dude living in the heart of the empire in Amerikkka. Thanks for all you do. I've seen your skills and professionalism grow and flourish. I've seen you become more creative and penetrating in your investigations. I've seen you become bolder with your POV and analysis. You're really going places, literally and figuratively. You could have chosen to work for an imperial stenography outlet and earn a lot of blood money, but you followed your conscience and convictions, and it seems to be paying off for you. I hope your endeavors continue to go well. I wish you all the success and happiness.

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much for your continued support! I appreciate it. 😁

  • @davidwoon6402
    @davidwoon6402 11 месяцев назад +14

    1 thing is certain. Laos is indeed an "agonising hell" to have 80,000,000 bombs dropped by 🇺🇸. For such misery that the Laotians are experiencing. It is only fair and humane for 🇺🇸 to pay reparations to Laos accordingly for every 1 kilogram of bomb dropped. USD100 per kilo as compensation. Do the maths? 😇

    • @ReportsOnChina
      @ReportsOnChina  11 месяцев назад +5

      Unfortunately they dropped 270 million bombs. The 80 million is the amount that remain unexploded. ;(

    • @davidwoon6402
      @davidwoon6402 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@ReportsOnChina Oh dear... 😢
      Lord... Have mercy on Laos 🙏 Everywhere could be a stepping time bomb 😭

  • @kakacicimakutuyoung
    @kakacicimakutuyoung 11 месяцев назад +28

    God bless Laos and it's people to be prosperous after a long suffering caused by the US

    • @heleneallane6444
      @heleneallane6444 10 месяцев назад

      Long live friendship between Laos and China 💐🐼🌈

  • @ahpong
    @ahpong 11 месяцев назад +10

    Too bad, my home country of Thailand under a sellout leadership provided US with airbases to support its crazy bombing campaign on Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. 😢 I went to Boh Ten ບໍ່ເຕ່ນ in 2015. Nothing but shacks and what looked like a construction site. I had no idea that later the railway would arrive there.

  • @voxclamantis9280
    @voxclamantis9280 11 месяцев назад +35

    Thank you for an excellent view into the resilience and strength of the Laotian people.

  • @dehua-2730
    @dehua-2730 11 месяцев назад +15

    Painful history for Laos being almost eradicated by these millions of bombs by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA brought endless sufferings to the people of Laos.

  • @PheejThao
    @PheejThao 11 месяцев назад +10

    Wow...Laos has been developing very well since the Chinese started her Belt and Road. The rest of southeast Asia is also working with China and I see the economic zones that are bringing companies from ther parts of the world to do business in southeast Asia which will bring jobs. China developed the necessary infrastructure to attract foreign inventsment. Win-Win.

  • @vichitvideo6041
    @vichitvideo6041 11 месяцев назад +8

    V
    Comprehensive and informative documentary about the Kunming-Viengtien railway which can be helpful to those who are interested in and intend to visit Lao.
    .

  • @preciousjewels5921
    @preciousjewels5921 11 месяцев назад +20

    Shame on the US

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      Shame on north Vietnamese commie too!

    • @badcanadian1279
      @badcanadian1279 11 месяцев назад

      @@kimduong2332so who actually dropped the bombs?

    • @kimduong2332
      @kimduong2332 11 месяцев назад

      @@badcanadian1279 Who actually laid mines there? There were bombs and mines in Laos, bombs from America mines from north Vietnamese commie. After America pulled out of south Vietnam, north Vietnamese commie sent 50,000 troops to down royal Laotian regime, occupied Laos from 1975 to 1989.

    • @badcanadian1279
      @badcanadian1279 11 месяцев назад

      @@kimduong2332 still doesn’t change the fact that it was the Americans that dropped all those bombs.

  • @zaitinmak5671
    @zaitinmak5671 11 месяцев назад +12

    China is working on One Belt One Road ( A Major Construction force) .
    The US is working on One Bomb One Road ( A Major Destruction force) .

  • @alangibson3293
    @alangibson3293 11 месяцев назад +24

    First off Andy, great short film loved it. As for the bombing of Laos and Obamas visit, it does not surprise me that there was no apology. Like all politicians in the US, they apologise for nothing, including the treatment of their own people. Again Andy well done with the film, like to see more from you.

    • @rap3208
      @rap3208 11 месяцев назад +3

      Them apologizing would mean the US admits it did it. Thus, they will never ever apologize.

    • @alangibson3293
      @alangibson3293 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@rap3208 But they don't have to admit they did it, video evidence shows they did. Guilty in a court of law usually, but the US does not believe in the law, except their law.

    • @rap3208
      @rap3208 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@alangibson3293 If they said they didn't do it, they didn't do it no matter how many the evidences against them are. Once they admit it, it's done. If they don't admit it, they can still do a lot of things to make it go away.

    • @ernest1587
      @ernest1587 11 месяцев назад +3

      Then you know why Japan never apologized for their atrocities in China.

  • @poring8886
    @poring8886 11 месяцев назад +13

    Imagine being a Laotian, your father go to work and randomly die because one of the 270 million dormant bomb exploded on him.
    Thanks USA.