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This is a 2010 piece that seems timely today given Obama's efforts to jump-start high speed rail in America and the response by many conservative governors to block that effort (see "Passenger rail is not in Ohio's future": New GOP governors kill $1.2 Billion in high-speed rail jobs).
A look at China's high-speed rail investments
Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:13 PM EST
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The benefits of high-speed rail are not limited to China’s domestic market. China is poised to reap the economic benefits from being an exporter of knowledge, technology, and capital for high-speed rail projects worldwide. Chinese companies are already building high-speed rail lines in Turkey and Venezuela, and are in discussions with Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Poland to build projects there. And the Chinese have most recently signed cooperation agreements with the state of California and General Electric to explore the feasibility of building, financing, and licensing technology to build high-speed rail lines in California.
Not only is China upgrading its own country, it is working worldwide on other countries' infrastructure.....but seriously, are we going to start importing Chinese workers by the hundreds of thousands to build infrastructure in the US?
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#2 - Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:27 AM ESTThe Irish will be in there too.. the Chinese & Irish.. and others built a lot of the railroad in the U.S.. As long as the right wing sit on their heads.. we will be dependant on other countries...
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