Friday, August 28, 2015

F. William Engdahl — China Rails Linking Eurasia

China has become the world’s leading makers of modern railroads and equipment. It has done so as part of a long-term strategy to weld a new economic space, build entirely new markets where none before existed. They studied the European rail-makers, studied the German ICE high-speed railways, engaged Siemens and a German consortium to build the world’s first magnetically levitated (maglev) train to link Shanghai’s international convention center to its new international airport at speeds between 300-400 km per hour. Now they are working on an entire new concept of fast rail as well as negotiating with some 28 countries to build high-speed conventional rail lines. China has become the address when it comes to rails and it is changing the world as we know it.….
New Eastern Outlook
China Rails Linking Eurasia
F. William Engdahl