{"id":252,"date":"2017-05-14T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/?p=252"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:05:11","slug":"ky-anh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/05\/14\/ky-anh\/","title":{"rendered":"As Far As Ky Anh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came 400km south of Hanoi to Ha Tinh province, home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/agents-of-change-in-csvs-elisabeth-simelton\/\">My Loi CSV<\/a>. What struck me about the trip, apart from the style of driving they go in for here, was the constant evidence of Vietnam's ongoing economic development. Hundreds of kilometres of roadway lined with business - motorbikes, water tanks, small tractors, food, karaoke, fruit, concrete mixers, furniture and more. Not only that, but on a weekend afternoon, everything was busy and the road was hectic. Here and there the linear market fizzled out but not for long. Along the way, I read an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/14\/china-xi-silk-road-vision-belt-and-road-claims-empire-building?utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&amp;utm_term=225926&amp;subid=21154608&amp;CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about\u00a0Xi Jinping's plans for a new China-bankrolled silk road and wondered if this is what he might have\u00a0in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/vietnam\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Bank overview<\/a> of the progress made over the past two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came 400km south of Hanoi to Ha Tinh province, home of My Loi CSV. What struck me about the trip, apart from the style of driving they go in for here, was the constant evidence of Vietnam's ongoing economic development. Hundreds of kilometres of roadway lined with business - motorbikes, water tanks, small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/05\/14\/ky-anh\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"As Far As Ky Anh\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}