Major concerns about ambitious Thai billion-dollar land bridge project: ‘Pearl white beaches are being sacrificed’

The Strait of Hormuz crisis has once again shown how crucial control over trade routes is. Thailand senses opportunities and is committed to the construction of an ambitious ‘land bridge’ between the Pacific and Indian Oceans as an alternative to shipping traffic in the Strait of Malacca. But the mega-project is under fire: economically unstable and a threat to nature and local communities.

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