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Bridge To Nowhere Shows China's Failed Efforts To Engage North Korea. Dandong, China. Towering above the murky waters, the New Yalu River Bridge was supposed to symbolise a new era in relations between China and North Korea, helping bring investment to landmark free trade zones jointly run with the impoverished and isolated state.
Costing 2. 2 billion yuan ($3. Chinese side deserted and locked, not a soul to be seen.
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On the North Korean side the unfinished bridge ends abruptly in a field, with little sign of infrastructure work happening. Launched with great fanfare at a five- star Beijing hotel in 2. Chinese border city of Dandong were meant to be part of China's efforts to coax its erstwhile diplomatic ally into cautious, export- oriented economic reforms, rather than sabre rattling and nuclear tests. China's anger at North Korea for carrying out its fifth and biggest nuclear test last week means the bridge looks unlikely to open any time soon, especially as Pyongyang is already under wide- ranging UN sanctions China has promised to uphold. The lonely streets of the Dandong New Zone stand testimony to the failure of those engagement efforts. Apartment complexes with fancy names like "Singapore City" lie bare or half- finished, and shopping malls empty or at very low capacity. At the Guomen Wanjia Home & Life Square Mall, Sun Lixia sits waiting for customers at a lighting store."North Korea hasn't opened their end of the bridge and we can't really do anything about it. Watch The Wronged Man Online Hollywoodreporter.
It's been bad for the local economy here. Who knows when they'll open it?" Sun said."Apartments haven't been selling quickly, a lot of people aren't willing to move here," she added. There isn't even a proper hospital here, it's only been half completed."It's far cry from what one Dandong official told state media in 2. Causeway Bay, one of Hong Kong's busiest commercial areas, and the bridge handle 5. North Korea."Abundant Resources"The Hwanggumphyong and Wihwa Islands economic zones, along with one at the other end of the border at Rason, had high level support. Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inked an agreement for them during a trip to China in 2.
The Rason zone has been more successful, though, with much more development, including a Chinese- built road into town and a new bridge being built at its border crossing. Kim's son, the youthful current leader Kim Jong Un, has yet to visit China, and seems unlikely to be invited any time soon as he pursues an accelerated nuclear weapons and missile testing programme to the increasing alarm of the outside world. A glossy promotional booklet from 2.
Hwanggumphyong and wide, tree- line avenues."North Korea has not only abundant, high- quality human resources, but also rich capital resources and enormous land to develop," the bilingual Chinese- English booklet reads, promising legal protection for investors and tax breaks. When Reuters visited this week, only farmland and barbed wire fencing could be seen from the Chinese side."The government was counting on trade between China and North Korea to drive economic growth here but that hasn't happened," said a security guard who gave his family name as Liu, standing in front of an office building on the optimistically named Commercial Street."To be honest, the main reason the new zone hasn't developed is because the bridge isn't open," Liu added. War Ties. The new link is meant to supplement Dandong's old "Friendship Bridge", with its lone lane for both vehicles and people running parallel to a single- line railway track.
About three- quarters of bilateral trade flows through the city, and statistics show how limited that still is. China's trade with the North is dwarfed by that with capitalist South Korea, which was worth 9. January and July, compared to just 1.
China and North Korea. Dandong's emotional ties with North Korea run deep, thanks to its front line position during the 1.
Korean War when China and North Korea fought against a U. S.- led UN coalition. Shops are packed with often low quality- looking North Korean goods, including ginseng and spirits infused with snakes and medicinal herbs, and North Korean waitresses sing patriotic songs at government- run restaurants for curious tourists. Those relations have been severely strained by North Korea's nuclear and missile tests and periodic shootings and murders blamed on North Korean residents and security forces."I don't like North Korea. The police on the other side used to shoot farmers who'd go over to sell potatoes, corn, things like that, in the winter," said Dandong farmer Zhao Guangfu, 7. Jin Qiangyi, Director of Yanbian University's Centre for North and South Korea Studies, said China found itself in a "distressing" position on what to do with North Korea."We have a choice about whether we can push them to reform and open up, to get them to change," Jin said. Of course political and military sanctions need to be stepped up, but civilian opening up and exchanges must be strengthened too."Shutting the door won't work, Jin added."Can it really change that way?"© Thomson Reuters 2.
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