China set to tap US market for high-speed rail - REFLECTIONS IN A CHINESE EYE

Often, I think I know China well. However, just as often, it occurs to me that I don't really know what I thought I knew. The visions and experiences collected and stored in my mind while I am awake are gone after I have slept. Reasoning and understanding seem to last only for a few hours before becoming illusory: the images and meanings disappear one by one, stolen from me by apparitions and secreted away, never to be returned in their original form. The understandings that I have assiduously acquired are nothing more than banal when bound together to try and shape the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Experience, learning, and proudly possessed knowledge, gained from many sources and from interaction with its people, are taken from everyone who thinks they know China and passed on to others who share them smugly, use them with confidence, reverently broadcast them as Gospel for a few praiseworthy moments. "I know China." Then, time and circumstance mangle them until they are beyond comprehension. These ,too, will be passed on and shared as truth, only to be proved wrong again. The enigma is this: China never changes, but China always changes. Its people beset by burden, affected with melancholy, inured to bewilderment, and suckled on uninterrupted millennia of incalculable hopelessness and sorrow. "There is chaos under heaven and things could not be better", said Mao Zedong. This is the real truth: "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" - Charles De Gaulle. China: don't ask, it is what it is... ,,,,,,,,W.D. Box

12/11/2010

China set to tap US market for high-speed rail

BEIJING: China has now set out to enter the high-speed rail market in the United States in collaboration with General Electric. China, which has the world's longest high-speed rail network covering 7,500 kilometres, has also initiated plans to connect the country with South East Asian neighbors including Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.

Roping in GE is a significant move because China's HSR network has so far relied on technology transfer from other train makers including Seimens. Alstom, Bombardier and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The latest move involves establishing a joint venture in the US between GE and China's CSR Corporation Limited with an initial investment of $50 million.

GE said in a statement that the venture would advance high-speed and other rail technology in the United States besides creating 250 jobs by 2012. The new company will be the first US manufacturer ready to supply HSR passenger trains for projects in Florida and California, it said.

Read more: China set to tap US market for high-speed rail - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/China-set-to-tap-US-market-for-high-speed-rail/articleshow/7083183.cms#ixzz17pn2sasK

Dec 11, 2010 1:48:59 PM | Current Affairs, Transportation

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