asia silk road I'm telling you. If you invade another man's country, the whole world is watching you and that's a no no but if pave a way for your citizens to slowly populate in another man's country and then take over the majority seat of the house and owns the country then that's just sneaky deeky. Think Malyasia. Chinese influences are big that country.
What is in it for the Laos' government? Tourism dollars from Chinese tourists will pump into the Lao's economy.
However, with chinese tourists, they will reach out to eat chinese food first so laos food vendors? I'm sorry to say but you guys are gonna get obsolete. The children that are growing up in them tourist areas will want to learn chinese first because their future in their family's business is mandatory to speak the chinese language. If you don't follow the herd, you are gonna starve and die.
This is one of the many views battling from the side that they are not gonna tell you about. Plenty more views are out there.