The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world
China's successful mixed economy model, with the state providing low cost services to the public and industry, is seen as a threat to the Western elite and Wall Street, who believe they should profit from everything themselves - which was the drive behind the neoliberal privatisation - even when their system was shown to be expensive and inefficient. Rather than the government doing the central planning for the benefit of society - businesses and individuals - they feel they should do all the central planning for the benefit of themselves.
The US has no high-speed rail, while China has the most the world. The elite are afraid that China's model may get adopted internationally.
Abroad, free-market fundamentalism inspired the 1973 CIA-backed coup in Chile, sanctions on Zimbabwe for its engagement in land reform, and the dozens of societies destroyed by the U.S. in the name of “freedom” and “democracy.”
China’s high-speed rail sector is now under fire from the U.S.-led neoliberal order precisely because the titans of big tech and finance cannot imagine development that does not place the massive profits of capitalists such as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in command of international politics.
Covert Action Magazine
China creates more billionaires per year, so they are feeling left out.
ReplyDeleteWhy take the train when you can fly ? Takes a lot less time...
ReplyDeleteTravel by train is more comfortable.
ReplyDeleteI'd love (if i had the time, of course; I don't, so this is just wishful thinking), to take a vacation across Canada, coast-to-coast, in one of them "Orient Express" style trains.
ReplyDeletehttps://canadiantrainvacations.com/discover/train-across-canada
Murder on the Orient Express."
ReplyDeleteYou know, what's great about an Agatha Christie murder mystery? The plot. That women knew how to tell a story and keep you guessing 'til the end.
You know what's even better about a Colin Dexter detective murder mystery (Inspector Morse)? The plot and the dialogue. A twofer! Can't beat that deal :)
http://www.agathachristie.com/en/stories/murder-on-the-orient-express
sanctions on Zimbabwe for its engagement in land reform,
ReplyDeleteLand reform is Biblical (Leviticus 25) so it's ironic that the traditionally Bible-believing US should oppose it.
Yo we’re not Israel...
ReplyDelete“ Travel by train is more comfortable.”
ReplyDeleteOnly for large people….
Which woman would you like to to be stranded on a deserted island for a month, let’s say? That is the one you travel together by train and share a compartment with. You see the “comfort “, Matt?
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