Christopher Luxon in Laos for East Asia Summit

Christopher Luxon is launching into his Laotian sprint, about to rattle through meetings with roll call of world leaders on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit. In the next hour, he's due to sit down with his Australian and Canadian counterparts but the main attraction - a sitdown with India's Narendra Modi - comes overnight, deputy political editor Craig McCulloch is in Vientiane.