Japan Pledges over $8.2 Billion in Aid for Mekong Region Nations

@NiceGuy what's your perspective on Japanese ODA?

LacViet said:

Yes, this is very important project, but the construction works is slowly.

On Project site.

The road high way connected Hanoi to HoaLac is completed.

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Looks so beautiful, my friend ! Vietnamese infrastructure looks amazing !

Viet said:

that is VERY nice. the japanese are generous. by the way, the government of vietnam welcomes japanese warships in the south china sea, supporting a more aggressive role and responsibility of japan. banzai!

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Great news for the region

Great news for the region in general. Being a developed nation, Japan has a greater potential to offer development assistant in underdeveloped areas. The regional discourse should definitely reverse back to development and economic cooperation. I guess the AIIB has kick-started many parallel initiatives.

3 bill US$ for Vietnam, the rest for others.

biendong said:

3 bill US$ for Vietnam, the rest for others.

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free lunch

TaiShang said:

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I think their arms are too short . I can feel them struggling to do hand link.

Kyle Sun said:

free lunch

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Low rate interest, 10 year grace time. Free of charges for technical assistant, technology transfer, and other volunteer help, etc....

biendong said:

Low rate interest, 10 year grace time. Free of charges for technical assistant, technology transfer, and other volunteer help, etc....

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You owe us a thanks. You won't get this free lunch without China.

There's no free lunch, only national interest (in this case, which is Japan).
Rich countries always invest direct and indirectly in poorer countries. Long term goal is strengthen their soft power.

Kyle Sun said:

free lunch

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70U63 said:

There's no free lunch, only national interest (in this case, which is Japan).
Rich countries always invest direct and indirectly in poorer countries. Long term goal is strengthen their soft power.

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This time ? No .
Japan is just using money to draw over Viet to the side of Japan.

Without China, Japan will do ODA but not that much.

Give money buy influence...

Kyle Sun said:

This time ? No .
Japan is just using money to draw over Viet to the side of Japan.

Without China, Japan will do ODA but not that much.

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Kyle Sun said:

You owe us a thanks. You won't get this free lunch without China.

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funny logic bro. Chinese is idiot, Idiot people does idiot thing. Japanese is smart.

Japan provided ODA for Vietnam from 1990s.

biendong said:

funny logic bro. Chinese is idiot, Idiot people does idiot thing. Japanese is smart.

Japan provided ODA for Vietnam from 1990s.

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Japan is irrelevant.

Economic superpower said:

Japan is irrelevant.

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What ?

Japanese has lower IQ than Chinese by untrusted survey. But in reality Japanese is smarter than Chinese.