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bioemerl · 2530 days ago · link · · parent · post: Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order
I'm not sure that this rail system will be all it's chalked up to be, barring China managing to shut down ocean based freight. The ocean based stuff is slower, but a lot cheaper. Secondly, it doesn't rely on many unstable regions and political bullshit threatening to shut down the system at any moment. There's a reason the US established worldwide trade through the ocean rather than through europe. Maybe this will all go well, but I am skeptical. Remember that "sounds good on paper" and "sounds good to the common man" are not "is good for the economy"