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High-Speed Rail: Venezuela's "Red Elephant" Project

Paraphrasing Enya: Rail away, rail away, rail away. They say that you may lend a country so much that you eventually end up owning it if it cannot pay, and this belief has interesting implications fo…

Hi-Speed Rail Diplomacy: China vs. Japan

Coming to an Asian country near you...or will that be the Chinese equivalent ? With China eclipsing Japan as the world's second largest economy in 2007, the latter has been keen to maintain its g…

PRC Infrastructure Battle: Japan Pledges $100B for Asia

Will the Japanese International Cooperation Agency of all institutions sink the ADB? There is utterly fascinating news coming out of Tokyo that the Japanese are preparing to provide a hundred billion…

Building Roads: PRC Plot to Buy Off Pakistan?

Follow the money trail on the mooted China-Pakistan superhighway. The Chinese way to winning friends by buying off nations is formulaic by now: The first pillar of this diplomatic outreach effort inv…
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