The Day Laos Died: Anatomy of a Zombie State
0:00 — The death certificate: March 11, 20211:20 — What sovereign default actually means3:00 — The EDLT grid handover explained5:10 — Cross-default tripwire and political survival7:30 — Capital flight and the Panama Papers9:50 — Three cartels replacing the state12:00 — Cambodia: the next prototypeOn March 11, 2021, Laos silently surrendered its national high-voltage electrical grid to China Southern Power Grid — and almost no one noticed. This is the forensic breakdown of how debt-trap diplomacy, offshore capital flight, and extraterritorial special economic zones dismantled a sovereign…
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