Vietnam’s High-Speed Rail Hits The Brakes On Foreign Funding – Analysis
By Nicholas Chapman
On 30 November 2024, Vietnam’s National Assembly rubber-stamped a high-speed rail network that will traverse 20 provinces, linking Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in five and a half hours. Vietnam has announced that, in the ‘spirit of independence and self-reliance’, it will not use foreign loans to fund...
