Check out China's plans for high speed rail
 

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It'll be fantastic to be able to travel all over Eurasia without flying on trains that go almost as fast as planes, and with no bullshit 4 hour security check in for international flights and with train stations typically being in the center of cities rather than 70kms away, door to door travel may actually be faster than flying even for long trips.

Not to mention trains are WAY more fuel efficient than flying so peak oil won't affect Eurasian travel as much

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/china-plans-mas.php

While America is trying to figure out how to connect Disney and Vegas with a maglev train, China is going forward with plans to connect a whopping 17 nations with a high-speed rail network. The plan right now is for three major lines: one that connects Beijing to London via the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) and continues on to Singapore; a second line that covers Malaysia, Burma, Vietnam, and Thailand; and a third that would bridge China, Russia and Germany to other European railways. And, just when you thought it wouldn't get crazier: China wants to get this done in the next 10 years.

Sometimes dictatorship is great!

What China is accomplishing is what can be done with fucktard socialists with environmental laws mucking up the works. China wants to do something, it fucking does it, no question. That is the REAL reason why China will be the power of the 21st century.

they have to keep their slaves busy

ouch. haha

easier to invade if you have trains going into all the countries you are interested in

how fast does this train go?

lol yeah fior all of those train invasions that have happened over the years.

you got to keep your guard up...never know when ninjas will jump out at you

More like they are creating massive projects to prop up their economy for just a bit longer :2 cents:

that would be great

damn... somebody already tagged it with graffiti...

i see what you did there

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It will all end in disaster...


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Fantastic, I hope they make their trains more secure than their cars. I'd imagine their trains is build out of old coca cola cans carrying 2500 people and traveling with 250 mph

They have the manpower to do it. :2 cents:

Again, manpower, but a "we don't fuck around" attitude sure helps.

I don't buy PanasoAnic and Hoanda Civec :)

Yap awesome, then imagine living in places like these:

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Summed up nicely.

When you do not have corporate greed in the equation. You can get a lot more accomplished. Especially when it comes to these types of projects.
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Look like Detroit

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Those pretty much copied Japanese technology after being given the chance to study it.

Yap the only difference is that the great majority of people in China lives in shitty places like this, where in the usa the situation is a lot different.

Yes, pure communism :)

China amazes with a plan to connect 17 countries with rails in 10 years. It's good that these trains are fuel efficient.

I don't think it's possible for something like that to be built in 10 years...

who fooled you into believing that ? most chinese live in nice residential areas, where they have nice appartments , many people have more than one too , not uncommon for people to own upto 5 or 6 appartments ...

I live in China right now , and even though many people are poor and do live in squalor , many many people dont :thumbsup

yeah but who would want to live in detroit? they dont have any high speed rail.

Until most of there populatin can' work due to pollution. Hard to be world power when your country's life expectancy drops to 40.

No you don't.

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Railways for supplies not for soldiers to jump out of trains at people.

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excuse me ? I do live in China ... you don't believe me ? why ? want to bet some hard cash ? :2 cents:

and ninjas...dont forget ninjas

That would be one hell of a feat of geography.

American arrogance makes me LOL every time.