Validity of Chinese driving license in foreign countries

[bikerdoc]

The PRC DL is pretty good in most S.E.A. (ASEAN) nations these days... indeed many countries kowtow to the increasing purchasing power of Ch!nese/Ch!na. Where once (a decade or even less ago) qualifications, certificates, DL etc. originating out of the middle kingdo0m were once only afforded a casual suspect glance, now it's almost a free for all. Various governments and other seeds of authority are softening their approach to all things Ch!na. IMO it's a little like doing business with Lucifer or at the very least selling ones soul. YMMV
While the PRC DL is able to open doors, there's no such vehicle for issuing a IDP inside the mother ship... meaning it's not legal to get a IDP from a PRC DL since PRC is not a signatory to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. Ta!wan however is AFAIK.
Self driving Ch!nese stream across the Bolten border crossing from Yunnan, into Laos, then into Thailand and beyond. The flood gates open approaching the Ch!nese New Year & Spring Festival. The hypocrisy is that the same is not afforded to most Laotians or Thais who are not afforded or reciprocated such courtesy.
/rant...