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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.
Sorry, you made a typo. You obviously meant to write, "china makes shit and would like to see it shipped to end customers faster."
Are you sure?
What a great idea. It turns a six hour flight into a 3 day ordeal! What a wonder.
an ill wind that blows no good
so, compare us wages for making a ton of steel to the cost of shipping a ton of steel from china to us.
about the same
figure it is about illegal to do physical production in the us
a lot of missing the point in these posts
first of all, this stuff was signed off in late october, which happened to be within a few days of when the us economy became unrecoverable by domestic means
now I occasionally read quotes from one of the two russian signers of the deal
so, he would be happy yo do a link to the us and in fact is planning on it and implementing stuff with this in mind
so some guy says high speed for rail does not make sense. something about wasting energy. I guess that is why there is no domestic us air freight. ah well. I guarantee you that the russian guy pushing this wants high tech high energy development. He is not some eco-fascist.
and development is where the rail comes in. everyone sensible in the region is going for high tech development corridors along the right of way
and there are plans to extend into africa
as far as paying, the russians agreed to let the chinese have part ownership, which between the two people is unique in human history. there are all sorts of development deals on both sides, for instance, the russians are supplying the chinese with nuclear power plants. there is nothing simple here.
anyway, in late october, international relationships starting shifting. it was obvious to anyone paying attention and what it meant was a major topic of discussion in the corridors at international meetings. I do not know how it will turn out, but figure that if you are actually hearing about it, it cannot be stopped.
that is I think good news.
I would propose Japan as the leader in this category.
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I don't think that Russia is as screwed as many seem to think.
They have a secret weapon; its called 'the Russian people'.
I think that 'westerners' look at Russians and they think 'oh they are white people, eurpopeans, they are like us.'
These 'westerners' will then assume that these (Russian) people are subject to the same kinds of cultural limitations and constraints as them. And thereby underestimate them massively.
The 'western world' is experiencing its golden age now, and it thinks itself strong and virile. But it isn't, its far from virile in fact its very weak and unstable. Times have been easy but things are changing. As civilisations go, I anticipate that 'the western world' will undergo something resembling presenile dementia.
And then the wolves will close in.
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Also, I'm obsessively focussed on the United States. No country other than the US has ever behaved with hegemonic disdain for the sovereignty of smaller countries. Ever! The United States INVENTED it, in fact. Like slavery. And racism.
Hey, is that a black helicopter over your shoulder? Didn't you see that same delivery van parked outside your house yesterday?
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