This picture taken on October 20, 2026, shows children playing as they climb up a wooden pole outside traditional thatched roof wooden houses at Dak Wai village in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, near Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken early on October 20, 2026, shows clouds above power lines stretching from a transmission tower in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, part of Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken during sunrise early on October 20, 2026, shows buffalo near wind turbines in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, part of Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken early on October 20, 2026, shows wind turbines (top) in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, part of Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken on October 20, 2026, shows a wooden house in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, near Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken on October 19, 2026, shows a general view during sunset in Dak Cheung, a mountainous district in Sekong Province. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken early on October 20, 2026, shows wind turbines in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, part of Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA

This picture taken on October 20, 2026, shows students playing outside their primary school in Dak Cheung, a district of Sekong province, near Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025. Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Laos-Vietnam-economy-energy-wind, FOCUS by Matt SURRUSCO and Eden EZRA