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Rail and shipping because you can't go through Iran.
Good to hear that the president only cares about rail in other countries.
China has One Belt, One Road and USA now has One Shipping channel, One Rail
China does not have one road anymore. Once Russia invaded Ukraine the entire project collapsed. It is not possible to run the rail from China to Poland (there already was a functioning hub for China-EU railway transport in central Poland before the war) without crossing Ukraine or Russia and Belarus. And all three of these countries are kinda off-limit for who-know-how long. Meanwhile the West kinda soured on the Chinese products and offshoring so once the war is over there will be no more incentive to resume large-scale operations of the belt and road.
America, bringing our horrible infrastructure practices to a Palestine near you.
Easiest way to make “East Palestine train wreck chemical spillage” disappear on the internet is to repeat it elsewhere to confuse people.
Giving third world dictators even more power doesn't sound like a good deal for anyone living in those regions
It's not like India isn't already shipping huge amounts of goods to Europe. They just do it on heavily polluting ships. Rail is the greenest shipping solution.
What's the alternative? It's easy to comment on it like the universe was created today. But we are all born into the world as it exists. That means understanding the history and geopolitics of the regions in question. One can't just jump in and say that they don't like Xi Jin Ping on the global stage, because the west was happily content leaning on the cheap labour of China for the past 50 years. Nevermind the fact that U.S saudi relationship has existed for well over 50 years now or more.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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