China transforms frontier neighbours with cash for rails to power

Singapore

CHINA'S investment is transforming its smaller South-east Asian neighbours like never before while helping turn Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar into bigger destinations for its exports.

That's driving some of the world's fastest economic growth rates and providing Chinese companies with low-cost alternatives as they seek to move capacity out of the country. It's also helping Asia's largest economy and nations in its orbit adapt to what looks more and more like a new era of waning US commitment to the region from a more inward-looking administration…