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rado ◴[] No.42194985[source]
Perspective: China has 45 000 km of high speed rail, while the UK is struggling to build 500.
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m0llusk ◴[] No.42195166[source]
Perspective: China is suffering terribly from the out of control debt used to build their high speed rail system and incidents are being systematically covered up rather than used to improve reliability of service. It's a trillion dollar blow out, not the great success that so many claim it to be.
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1. ossobuco ◴[] No.42196181[source]
China has built the best and largest high-speed rail system in the world, at a fraction of the time and cost it's taken other developed countries to build tiny (in comparison) systems....BUT AT WHAT COST????

> It's a trillion dollar blow out, not the great success that so many claim it to be.

Source?

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2. vouwfietsman ◴[] No.42196773[source]
Its fairly well known that China used these high speed rail developments to build itself out of the financial crisis, with dubious success of the resulting rail systems, and corresponding debt. This information is just a google away.

Still not a bad deal for China though.