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Southeast Asian defense chiefs meet in Laos as maritime disputes with China are flaring By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Southeast Asian defense chiefs and representatives met in Laos on Wednesday for security talks at a time of increasing maritime disputes with China in the Asia-Pacific and as the transition to ...
Southeast Asian foreign ministers and top diplomats from key partners including the United States and China are gathering in the Laotian capital on Thursday for the start of three days of talks ...
Landlocked Laos, which has taken over this year's rotating ASEAN leadership, is the bloc's poorest nation and one of its smallest, and many have expressed skepticism about how much it can ...
The president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the head of state of Laos. The current president is Thongloun Sisoulith , since 22 March 2021. He was previously elected as the General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party , Laos' most powerful position in January 2021, ranking him first in the Politburo .
On 3 December 2021, he and President of China Xi Jinping opened the new Boten–Vientiane section of the Lao-China railway. [22] [23] Laos however faces rising debt to China, with half of Laos' external debt being owned to China. At the 27th Future of Asia conference in Tokyo on 27 May 2022, Thongloun downplayed concerns over a Chinese debt ...
The Royal Lao Government in Exile (RLGE) is a Laotian government in exile opposed to the Lao People's Democratic Republic established on May 6, 2003, and seeks to reinstall a constitutional monarchy in Laos. The RLGE also seeks to end what it sees as the Vietnamization of Laos and the Lao-Viet special Brotherhood Treaty. [1]
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic. [1] The only legal political party is the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). [ 2 ]
According to Martin Sturt-Fox, this suggests an ideological cohesion within the party and its leadership. The 4th Congress introduced the "New Economic Mechanism" (NEM, market reforms). [ 1 ] Partly for introducing NEM, the 4th Congress is the last congress to be postponed due to political infighting. [ 1 ]