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>Go west, young Han. One day, if everything happens according to plan (and according to the dreams of China’s leaders), all this will be yours — via high-speed
by omegaworks 12y ago
>Go west, young Han. One day, if everything happens according to plan (and according to the dreams of China’s leaders), all this will be yours — via high-speed rail, no less.
Comparing the opening of a new global trade route to the Manifest Destiny conquest and colonization of the American west is propagandistic and inflammatory. If anything, this will only serve to encourage investment in the rail transport infrastructure we desperately need here in North America.
- johnny99 12y agoI agree with both, though they do seem superficially contradictory (inflammatory, but propelling something we desperately need). Would you care to elaborate?
- Turing_Machine 12y agoWhat makes you think that a) all of the (e.g.) 131 ethnicities in Kazakhstan will welcome this and b) that the Chinese would build something like this without being prepared to defend it using military force?