I mean, objectively Chinese HSR is cheaper per unit distance than California's or London's by... I think an order of magnitude? They can afford to build additional infrastructure at scale.
China connected basically all major Chinese cities for less than 10x the cost of California HSR or HS2.
Reposting my response to you on the other thread for visibility.
From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
How much more definitive do you want? Do you want Bibi dressed up in a nurse costume?
The ad hominem attack to avoid providing sources.
Classic.
Go on, document questionable sources in my posts. Oh, wait, that's right. The only "questionable source" you can point to is Al Jazeera.
Classic pro-Israel people: asking for sources from everyone else but spreading FUD without evidence themselves.
If you've read it, spread it.
As if being anti-Israel means that Al Jazeera throws journalistic integrity into the wind? If the facts are valid, they're valid regardless of what the spin being put on them is.
Gee, I sure wonder why Al Jazeera would be anti-Israel...
From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
How much more definitive do you want? Do you want Bibi dressed up in a nurse costume?
The article's talking about solar. Read it. Understand it.
I mean, isn't there pretty substantial evidence that those "ghost cities" are just speculative development that, most of the time, is productive?
See: https://youtu.be/SR4EYQ6JFUI?si=brfvaXCezqVI0hiL
The party's approach to dealing with the marginalized rural population is to just urbanize as many people as possible. That's also why they speculatively build out housing. In 2023, at least, rural people are getting more disposable income growth than urban ones:
In the first half of the year, the nationwide per capita disposable income of residents was 19,672 yuan, a nominal growth of 6.5 percent over the same period last year, and a real growth of 5.8 percent after deducting price factors. In terms of urban and rural areas, the per capita disposable income of urban households was 26,357 yuan, a growth of 5.4 percent (unless otherwise specified below, it was a year-on-year nominal growth), and the real growth was 4.7 percent after deducting price factors; the per capita disposable income of rural households was 10,551 yuan, a growth of 7.8 percent. After deducting price factors, the real growth was 7.2 percent.
Isn't Russia just shipping everything to China and India, instead? And India is just playing the arbitrage game and reselling to Europe?