China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe

MikeChino sends in this excerpt from Inhabitat: "China already has the most advanced and extensive high-speed rail lines in the world, and soon that network will be connected all the way to Europe and the UK. With initial negotiations and surveys already complete, China is now making plans to connect its HSR line through 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe in order to connect to the existing infrastructure in the EU. Additional rail lines will also be built into South East Asia as well as Russia, in what will likely become the largest infrastructure project in history." They hope to get it done within 10 years, with China providing the financing in exchange for raw materials, in some cases.

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WTF ??

[vikingpower]

This is complete lunacy. Connection China to Europe's High Speed network ?? Through all of Russia, which has no high speed trains ?? In TEN years only ?? It took France 24 years to come where it is now, the Germans about as much time. And the Chinese want to bridge a humongously greater distance in TEN years ?? Propaganda, not more and not less.