It’s B.S. You are correct it’s Communist propaganda. The sheer tonnage of the freight we move could not be sustained at high speeds.
China’s streets are littered with human feces because they have 7th century
sanitation . The country is beyond filth and dirt. The people are
desperately poor.
Leave it to Salon to deliver absolute commie hogwash.
That is a very good point. Communism only allows for very modest gains, due to people not being free.
I agree that Red China is still desperately poor in terms of sanitation and infrastructure; the stories touted that benefit millions ignore the squalor of hundreds of millions.
These stories should simply serve as a warning to the West, that their manufacturing bases are being destroyed by this stuff.
Another poster compared it to the Silk Road; unlike that route, this is seriously detrimental to the West. The falling standard of living and birthrate can attest to that; fifteen hundred years ago Westerners would have destroyed these routes to preserve their way of life.