China built almost 40,000 kilometers of highspeed rails in just over a decade. Meanwhile, dreams for a similar highspeed train systems in the EU and US have been consistently derailed. How did China do it? And at what cost?

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Read More (Links):

Research paper modeling highspeed rail’s offset of emissions: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Asia Development Bank Report 2019:
https://www.adb.org/sites/default/fil...

World Bank report on China’s construction costs: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/pu...

IEA Future of Rails Report:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...

European Court of Auditors report on EU’s HighSpeed rail:
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/eca/speci...

0:00 Intro
0:58 Highspeed history
1:55 How China did it
4:44 Human – and creature – costs
6:01 Geopolitical goals
6:54 Airline problems
8:32 Comparison to other countries

Reporter: Beina Xu
Camera: Beina Xu
Video editor: Henning Göll
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer