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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.
Americans, of which I am one, are a funny lot.
When things are going well, we're a spoiled, petulant group of people. We give no thought to the future or even the present. We will let things get as bad as the possibly can in a first world nation.
However...
We are at our best when things are at their worst. We will support each other. We'll give to one another when we have almost nothing individually. We become mindful of the future.
Case in point: if you get a sizeable force and set it against us, we will work together as though we were one being and turn our entire nation into a war machine second to none.
So, in the long run, I'm not too worried.