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“You're making me a little nervous,” says the 28-year-old Chinese woman to Ruben Terlou's big eyes in front of her. He wants to know what her dreams are. “May I say I don't have dreams anymore? They've been wiped out by life. ” The woman works as a companion at Club Mimi, a hotspot in Sihanoukville, a Cambodian coastal town driven to the future at record pace by Chinese investment.

No reporter can create intimacy on television as casually as Ruben Terlou, and he can do that outside China. In The World of the Chinese (VPRO) he visits places that the Chinese have put to their hands thanks to investments and the associated labour migration. In Sihanoukville, on Sunday in the second episode of the series, the consequences are colossal. As a result of the construction explosion, the drainage system of the city has become untouched: in the rainy season, the streets turn into rivers, through which Terlou passes like a shaky wad. Read more. . .

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/01/18/ook-de-chinezen-koloniseren-wat-af-a4027991

“May I say I don't have dreams anymore? They have been erased by life.”