Can China Connect the World by High-Speed Rail? | Gerald Chan | TEDxKFAS

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1. what is bad about this approach is that nothing is mentioned on sustainability
2. 要致富先修路
3. i hope that day will be come soon.
4. Tedx is run by George Soros the Jew!
5. Since US and its allies dominates all the ocean, China has to trade with neighbors in the biggest continent.
6. Kunming is my hometown, I can get more chance in Kunming than in the U.S. So after I graduate, I come back to Kunming.
7. Great
8. It is all about trade, which lead to $ which leady to power. Now world is ruled by sea super power - USA. The richest countires are USA + some of its allies (western UE, Japan, Australia, Canada, ...). Most of trade is conducted thru oceans. If this will change - everything will change. Non-sea countries can start to get richer - China, Russia, Poland, Kazahstan, Ukraine, Belarus... China will challenge USA and ultimetly CAN win world domination because of its manpower. Hopefully without WWIII. Better start to learn Mandarin :)
9. Trans-continental and international railway lines sounds good. But what rail gauge shall be used? And why old-fashioned steel wheel trains? Japan will connect Seoul to it's railnetwork, but definitely by their new developed magnetic leviation trains (cuz much faster). So why the Chinese use these outdated steelrail technology in various gauges?
10. One year later after this talk, Trump won the USA presidency building walls instead of connection.... very good improvement of the world from the west.
11. Yes, the roads & Rails built by Chinese with Chinese labor and Technology to further its goods into new markets. There is hardly any participation by the locals in the building of these kind of colonial infrastructure. Instead, the terms and conditions of the agreements signed are so in favor of the Chinese that they are bound to face the harsh consequences in the later years. China is building a new kind of colonial empire. It is like history repeating itself.
12. there's no way the world leaders can pull this off. least of all USA whose hegemony is threatened by Chinese being the center of this world, something US ego cannot allow
13. time to clear out all the religious kooks, oil hics, jew bankers, warring private contractor dogs and obama puppets so humans can make this world a better connected place to live without Alien Armageddon forcing us to unite.
    
    We can "round them up humanely" and blast them one way to the sun or save a shitload of money and use them as fertilizer for our organic crops. Might have to clear out all the shit chemicals in their body first though, cause you what they say, shit flows downstream.
14. A train that takes three days to get from China to Europe ? It takes just nine hours by plane from Amsterdam to Beijing. And why would it be a good idea to have a railway line of that sort ? So the Chinese can move troops straight into the heart of Europe ?
15. The train ride from London to New York dosn't seam realsitic as it would be faster just to fly over the atlantic ocean than crossing the entire European and Asian continent as well as crossing Alaska and Canada
16. I admire his vision. Although, it seems too idealistic.
    
    Firstly, how does the High Speed railway actually benefit communities in which they pass? High speed rail tickets are EXPENSIVE. Maintenance costs are high, the trains are expensive, the tracks cost considerably more. Many of these countries do not have metros in their cities, no regional train network. How would a high speed track that randomly pass through actually help? Only higher stratas of society can benefit from easier travel.
    
    Secondly, Chinese are known to safe guard their technologies (which they themselves legally stole from the West). There won't be transfers of technologies to less advanced states. Chinese also bring their own workers, engineers, architects etc. in infrastructure projects in Africa. Local communities don't get employed, nor do they learn the technical skills.
    
    Thirdly, China doesn't give two hoots about the environment even in China. Do we seriously expect China to ensure that the Amazon rainforest won't be destroyed as the so called bridge to from the Atlantic and Pacific is built?
    
    China's goals are self-serving - to gain geo-political importance and sway. The CCP will do whatever it takes to make money, whatever the cost. The sooner the world sees that, the better.
17. imagine if China and other like minded nation will get together and work on the food supply that can guarantee to feed 20 billion people, imagine how big the economy of the world will grow!
    without resorting to WAR!
18. look at the differences between US and China, even though China is a late comer but its interest is not to dominate and to interfere in the internal policy of any nation but instead to focus on development and to promote trade and commerce.
    what a relief! instead of war. war, war, China is promoting peace, peace, peace.
19. excellent. China is the only country in the world which can achieve goals earlier than expected. really people of all countries will strengthen their brotherhood if what this gentleman says become real.
20. If this guy is an expert, then China still has a veeeery long way before it rules anything. Fingers crossed, for all of us:)