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What's after Vietnam?--is my question.

Cambodia... I was just in Sihanouk last week and the entire city is under massive development by the Chinese. You have 4-5 star hotels built with potholed dirt roads out front. Giant apartment buildings are going up in marshland. There is also a massive port built there where China can now move goods through. There is zero care for the environment and the entire city is a mess. Tons of gambling, prostitution and drugs... it is literally like the wild wild west there. All in the last couple of years. [1] [2]

Vietnam doesn't work so well with the Chinese because of their history and because the US has already been giving Vietnam a bunch of free boats [3] [4] and money.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/31/no-cambodia-l...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/this-cambo...

[3] https://thedefensepost.com/2018/03/29/us-gives-vietnam-6-pat...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-usa/u-s-delivers-...

When i saw the new burger shops popping with their new invented names and the bread shops with 6 shops chain in the neighbourhood and the young people in Jeans working and living I imagined the 50's in the U.S.A,

But now you go even far and mention the wild old west, yeas, those are the developments of the free market.

Won't the collapse of China's economy take their investments in Cambodia with it? The point of moving your supply chain away from China is to avoid that.

Maybe, but if anything I'd think this investment would help protect them since it allows the occupation of a major shipping hub.

India. That's why Samsung built "world's largest mobile factory" in Noida. Factory started operation in 2018.

African countries. Many see parts of Africa as ‘Chinas China.’

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