Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "The B1M" channel.

  1. Had it in Japan. Was nice. Although that was some 10 years ago. But it was rather expensive.
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  2. Morocco already has one high speed line for 320 kph. But the network will expand in the next decades.
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  3. Thing is there are relatively few cities that would need such a metro in Germany. Paris is a lot bigger than Berlin which already has a very extensive metro system relative to the size.
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  4. There will be rescue train sets at each end and every 330 meters will be a breakthrough to the other line so you can evacuate
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  5. They won't run the trains in the middle of the desert. And clearing tracks could be a nice way to employ some people.
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  6. Are you by any chance American?
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  7.  @troll821  How about you be honest and say who started the war that ended with those villages burning?
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  8.  @bowmitt15  The US uses planes for that. HSR in the US isn't really all that viable in many places. California, NEC, Texas and Florida would be a fit but NY Chicago? Not really.
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  9. While I agree that government has held Egypt back, don’t forget that Egyptians also have to make some changes in their lives to become as successful as other nations. Economic growth is more than just government.
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  10. Lyon - Turin: -Mountainous terrain and the construction of a very long base tunnel through difficult geology. HS2: -Land acquisition
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  11.  @neoyang5942  difference in wages I would think. Or maybe a novelty concept. I don’t know
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  12. Americans do not hate China. They are distrustful. Ok, some hate China.
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  13. Most of it will never be built and only announced
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  14. Better than Neom
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  15. That is precisely the problem. The UK has been developed for a long time. If you have rapid growth like that, it is easy to built with the newest designs and technologies. In 100 years the Chinese system will work with the stuff they built today. Like Britain currently does.
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  16. More like the other way round
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  17. Given that they produce an immense amount of STEM graduates, I wouldnt doubt it. But rather, they are ruled by highly trained bureaucrats.
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  18.  @thkiwi1  They want to join a non-descript organisation that insofar has yielded little political and economic cooperation. The actual results of BRICS so far have been more than modest. Cooperation is little. Hence why I don’t freak put about Egypt applying. It won’t save their economy. That was the IMF with 20 billion USD and probably more soon. BRICS gotta do some serious work before they can be taken as serious as competing organisations. And I doubt any cooperation will extend to the same NATO like architecture. Something that has been maintained ror over 70 years. Don’t forget that there are many rivalries inside BRICS. Oh, and in Egypt‘s case; they would not try to get rid of the US. The army especially sees the US overwhelmingly positive - they get lots of equipment from there.
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  19.  @JohnFromAccounting  Egypt doesn’t have the agriculture. They need to import food. The population just exploded
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  20. I am also always amazed when anti-west pro-Bejing people use a VPN to access those media their government does not want them to see to spread their message. I mean, the irony. While it isn't quite as dim as you make it see, they do have very little they can do and often did not receive adequate compensation in the past.
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  21. You misunderstood. It cuts the ferry time from 45 minutes to 8 minutes through a tunnel. The current route from Copenhagen to Hamburg takes 4:36 hours or so. The new route will not go via Jutland (the main island of Denmark) but go south and pass the Baltic sea in a tunnel. This cuts several hundred kilometers. Additionally the route will be high speed (250) so travel times are even shorter. To make this viable, the ferry has to be replaced. It takes 45 minutes just to cross, you gotta plan at least half an hour of preparation before you are on board and off again. It will save a ton of CO2 when it's done. Travel time will be 2 hours then by train. That is way faster than the aircraft or road.
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  22.  @mlepa  Ehm, 7.4 billion Euros to built a tunnel that will cut travel times by up to 40% for people from Denmark and Sweden and provide an environmental friendly way of transport for people and goods is in my opinion not oo much. With that logic, nothing should ever be built again. Sometimes you gotta invest to save money. This might sound harsh but I don't care - this is European tax payer money and it should be spend in Europe. What would you do with the 7.4 billion? Transfer it to Africa? Thank you very much but no. (Where are you from by the way? This might explain your hesistance to valuable infrastructure projects).
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  23. A lot of projects in Eastern Europe have been completed in the last decades when they joined the EU. Now obviously Western Europe is richer and can finance HSR and such things better.
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  24. The property prices in the UK are much higher, whereas in Egypt, most of the line can run in unused land
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  25. We aren't freezing and starving...
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  26.  @YoussefMohamed-nu3zi  You can be civil without religions...
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  27.  @YoussefMohamed-nu3zi  Maybe in countries without effective governments and in pre-modern societies. But people can be civil without religions.
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  28. Be objective. China is rising fast whereas America does not anymore. The GDP of the US will be overtaken in the next 5 years. The best universities aren't an objective collection but rather an anglo-american comparison. It is impractical to compare it to the education systems of other nations. The Chinese military receives a lot of money through black channels and additionally, the US pays way less and has extremely high costs for soldiers. Costs China does not need to bear. The US does not own all the major tech companies. Laughable claim. China got a pendant to Facebook, Amazon, Apple.... Do not underestimate them. China is increasingly producing media. If you cannot spell cyber, it is mood. And guns, you do not need the best guns. Wars are economical today and the US is loosing. You are an Algerian idiot. Sincerely, a China-critical German.
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  29. Yep. The US is just too busy with itself. Too much hate between their own.
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  30. Cities just offer so many more job opportunities and cultural activities.
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  31. Law suits....
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  32. Two different things and both valid. I am envious of their HSR construction and criticise them on human rights.
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  33. Yes, someone realises the problem is the American government.
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  34. I mean it’s not empty. In 2024 24,5 Million passengers used it. That’s decent
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  35. Covid will pass.
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  36. Moroccans would disagree…
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  37. Please check your sources. 1. The plebiscite was only held in BW. Not in all of Germany. As someone from NRW, I had no say. 2. That is false. The motion was passed in the entirely BW-held referendum. 3. The stress tests did not come to the same conclusion. 4. Munich is much more of an end-point than Stuttgart.... Munich is at the German periphery whereas Stuttgart is not. 5. There was no space to built more tracks... And then, travel on those old tracks takes long. The new tunnels with more tracks are way faster. Please, get your facts straight.
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  38. Because building underground is prohibitively expensice
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  39.  @ralvis22  It wasn't one uniform rock. But you are right. Seattle is built on a sandy area and then you have an urban space with the problems of cellars and debris. You also have generally higher costs in the US because of organisation. It isn't limited solely to blue or red states. It is a nation wide phenomenon.
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  40. They need more capacity anyway.
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  41. Lol ahahaha. The carriers do not provide European security. This is your politicians chronically overfunding your military and underfunding infrastructure. Ours didn’t and it isn’t luxury but basic necessities
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  42. Really, no. 1. China will largely invest at home. There will be some lines going elsewhere but mostly they will remain at home. 2. To the North, there is Siberia and distances become too great to make HSR feasible. Plus, population density rapidly declines. 3. West, same story. All those -stans. 4. South: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan. Interesting for freight but for a traveller from Bejing, not interesting. Too large distances. People forget how massive China is. 5. East: North Korea remains isolated. WIthout North Korea, no access to South Korea. Japan, too far and a strategic rival. Taiwan, far but not completely inaccessible. Probably not worth the cost. Unclear political support, leaning no in Taiwan. I could literally only see Vietnam and Cambodia gaining access.
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  43.  @zhangyi5145  Lol... Check your own history, China was doing the same stuff to others.....
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  44. And who pays Brussels? Guess who?
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  45.  @edward5228  You didn't answer one question....
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  46. It is mainly financed with debt as are most infrastructure project. The debt is corporate debt but the corporations are state-owned. The lines aren't really profitable. Even if costs are just 17 million dollars per kilometer, they sell the tickets for even less and then maintenance and so need to be covered. China currently grows the net because they can and even if it fails, they will have something of value in place.
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  47. It’s a very small view into European projects. There are tons more
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  48. Such a foolish statement can only come from an American.
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  49. Letting Bosnia in would cost billions of Euros, would probably cause massive migration into the social safety nets of western Europe. No, please no more half-failed states
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  50.  @covakoma1064  I honestly give no damn about perceived ex-yugoslavian injustices. They are in and you are not and precisely your way of argumentation is why I don't want Bosnia, Serbia and the other nations in - stuck in the past with authoritarian governments, poor and underdeveloped which would have to be paid by German tax payers.
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  51.  @covakoma1064  I don't want this bridge. I am German and could care less. I however don't want to spend a billion annually on Bosnia for the next 20 years.
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  52. That is definitely true. But likely not their main motive.
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  53.  @sammyaden9016  You very much overestimate the amount of money that Egypt receives from US.
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  54.  @cocojumboist520  Let's hope this energy is through renewable sources. Egypt could produce so much solar...
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  55. You must have failed economics too. China has accumulated several trillions of private and corporate debt in the past years. The US has quite a lot of federal government debt but the Chinese state does not report state-owned corporate debt as government debt. http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/CHINA-DEBT-HOUSEHOLD/010030H712Q/index.html Please read this Reuters article on Chinese debt. It isn't all that rosy. Consumer debt has surpassed western levels in 2016 and government debt is inching in on Japan. And at least the US get to decide their leaders and criticise them. You cannot. You may like what they do now but who is to say that you will still like it in 4 years? In the US you get rid of the guy. In China you have to deal with it. Personally I would take the freedom of the west anyday.
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  56. Most countries do. Often a part of transport ministries.
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  57. Siemens is German though, not at all Italian.
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  58. Why would they then try to pay off with a German company when it was an Italian? Anyway, are the contracts the same?
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  59.  @mab7727  Italy has their own train manufacturing and railway business. No reason to buy off Germany to buy off Italy when you can buy off Italy directly. As for the contract. Is it identical is scope? Or were things changed? Anyway, it isn’t very realistic to built so much rail for only 9 billion. And I checked, the contract that was just signed is for 4.5 billion dollars.
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  60.  @mab7727  That would be the entire plan in action. Right now Siemens got the 4.5 billion plan for the first itinerary
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  61. Their government doesn’t have endless funds either
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  62.  @orokato  You may have more apps but then are they free? Political opinions should not be hidden because your government is living in fear of you. You can get competent planning, execution and governance even in a democracy and many Asian nation with higher wealth have a more democratic and free system. It isn't mutually exclusive. And no, voicing a political opinion does not mean bitching. For instance, writing about corruption of Xi Jinping could land you in big trouble. Criticising the CCP lands you in trouble. Working in a different party blocks your economic rise.
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  63. @veezaiy That is only the barest job description and apparently, the citizens needs are decided by the government. They did rather well, I am not saying that. Truth is they could do a lot more with some basic freedoms. As I said, other Asian nations started from an equally bad situation and are wealthier per capita than China. There is little to no reason why a nation especially one with such a degree of development and consensus building would be unsuitable to some basic human rights as outlined in the UN charta. Taiwan manages to. South Korea (almost completely destroyed during the Korean war), Japan.... Singapore is a thriving city in the world and they have many more freedoms. A Singapore like government could work very well in China.
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  64. @veezaiy Ypu ask why I care? My family lived under an oppressive government for decades. And they precisely used the same reasoning: „to protect people, to care about people, to provide basics to everyone“. Well, other countries did that too while being free. In the end that country failed.
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  65. @veezaiy Easy answer. Many of those outside China either plan to get back to China and then criticising the CCP isn’t all that smart a move. And who studies in the US? Europe? The children of the rich elite which obviously have no interest in getting rid of the system. But obviously this is not everyone and everything. Some also do criticise China. Most are rather apolitical...
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  66. @veezaiy Easy answer. Same with the Turks in Germany. They praise Erdogan but would never want to live there. Quite irrelevant what they think and honestly, di they praise the CCP? I know some and they are at best indifferent. Pride for their culture and the development but no support for that system.
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  67. @veezaiy The thing is that the CCP does not have the best historic record when it comes to preserving the Chinese cultural heritage and most people of Chinese origin are acutely aware of that. I am European. Our people with Chinese ancestry are largely happy. My mates parents come from Nanjing. He does think that the development China took was good in the past decades but he does not want the system and he does not want to live in one. He enjoys the civil liberties, probably more than many other Europeans because he knows other relatives of his don't have them. The thing is, who knows what the people that really count think. Nobody can claim to know. The majority currently seems to back the CCP which is fine with me if this is their choice. But one day, they won't. Ceaucescu was once largely popular in Romania and they shot him 20 years later. Who knows what will happen in 20 years time. I just hope Chinese leaders realise that people will not always be quiet and relinquish government without a say. I really think China could be a successful democracy, a successful model for freedom. Development and wealth aren't going away because you democratise. What I really don't like is when people say that "China tried democracy"; well yeah, they did. Once during a civil war at a state of total collapse. Not the best situation then. And the rather defeatist attitude that China needs to be ruled top-bottom. Or that the party is a meritocracy. It isn't really. Parties never are. It is all about alliances and finding support for their own persons. In the end, China needs to sort their own problems out. Unfortunately, they are so big that their problems affect the world, that is why I take a large interest. And if you missed it, I admire them for their steadfast development although that does not remove just cause for criticisms. Ultimatively, I think they can improve on their country a lot. But that would mean that a sizeable part of the political class relinquishes their absolute hold on power. As a European, I would feel better about a China which agrees to value the UN charta of human rights (and I regularly criticise the US and my country if they fail to hold up the standards).
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  68. @veezaiy I agree. Any government system is inherently flawed (so is anarchy for that matter). But I much prefer a system where at least I have a semblance of choice and where I can freely voice my opinion on politics and work to change. Outside a major party. But I agree. I hope China finds a way that addresses the inherent need for society to live under guaranteed rights with a correction mechanism for popular opinion. Doesn't need to be a western democracy. Could be an Asian type. Singapore would be a good model for them. Civil liberties but a strong position of government.
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  69. And how will they pay for it?
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  70.  @orokato  I think western journalists are more trust worthy than Chinese reports that would obviously voice the PRC government.
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  71.  @orokato  I have. I have also lived inside a communist dictatorship and I know how to differentiate between some sort of censorship and independent reporting. Then again I get my news from a variety of sources. German, Swiss, British, American. Occasionally I check RT but almost never for foreign news since they are directly budgeted by the Kremlin....
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  72.  @orokato  China isn‘t communist but it is a one party state with a very heavy control of the media and government censorship. My point still stands, news from China are much more biased and typically tend to exclude all too critical reporting.
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  73. Nah, Egypt is neither the most prosperous or democratic country. For democratic; I would say Indonesia. For prosperous; I would say UAE or Qatar But Egypt isn’t the worst in any category either… it has a small GDP/capita but that one is rising. And while it isn’t democratic, at least it isn’t a monarchy
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  74. Actually the bill was passed.
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  75. What does this project have to do with the French?
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  76. You can find that most of Israels enemies engage in the same abusive practices that you criticise about Israel. And no, there is no Apartheid in Israel.
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  77.  @akouafray8616  Nah, those who have made their way to the top with party politics. Not necessarily the best.... It's a myth that only the best are selected.... Parties don't work like that.
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  78. BRICS so far isn’t all the hype… It certainly isn’t a common market right across the sea…
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  79. Nah. Where would you put that bridge
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  80. Don’t vote, don’t complain. There was a plebiscite and supporters won out
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  81. The idea is that European compatibility would allow future upgrades easier to be implemented. As for the compatibility itself - European rail standards are quite high...
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  82.  @sheenasmith4555  You confuse government censorship and terms of usage by a private company. Government did not censor Trump in any way. He still has lots of appearances. Well, I can live without Youtube but that would be a deliberate choice on my part; I won’t have the choice in China.
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  83. He cannot. The US system is a system where power is largely shared whereas the CCP has a top bottom approach. Each got advantages and disadvantages. China is in essence a cage. You buy your future with your rights. I am glad I live in Europe.
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  84. They actually electrify the line between San Jose and Merced and SF so that the train can run there.
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  85.  @mlepa  Your timings are a bit wrong. If the entire tunnel is built which includes the connections between the tunnel and Hamburg or Copenhagen respectively (it is already in place, there is some need for some electrification and some few improvements), travel times are projected to be 2:30 minutes according to Wikipedia, compared to the current 4:36. That is -2 hours and such timings mean that rail would be the better solution for travel between South Sweden, Copenhagen and northern Germany. The traffic through this route will no longer use the longer and therefore more emissive route. With comprehensive regulation, trucks may become only the second option and cargo by rail might become the first. Ok, you can try to make your folks spend billions of their taxes in Africa. Good luck, nobody would vote for this and I certainly vote. I pay taxes so that my infrastructure is good otherwise I wouldn't pay them; why would I pay for a something that I won't ever have a benefit from. We can give out loans and such but 8 billion Euro is a lot of money and should be spend here. Sure, a solar plant in Africa will help. Problem is, there are no engineers in Africa that would be able to pull such thing off, Northern Africa is unsafe for large investments and what when the sun does not shine?
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  86. Building such a large tunnel underwater? And to Taiwan no less?
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  87.  @gitaf8829  I wonder how delusional you must be.... 1. The English channel tunnel connects via a 50 kilometer long tunnel under the 30 km wide Strait of Dover... The Strait of Taiwan / Formosa is at minimum 200 kilometers. 2. The Strait of Dover is some 40 meters deep. The Strait of Formosa is at least twice that deep. There are your technological problems. You would need a very long and very deep tunnel. 3. China and the ROC may claim the other side as province but without the government of the ROC on board, you will never get this tunnel. Really, how did I say you don't deserve it? I said that this is unlikely in the best case and impossible now.... Remember, not every critical response is immediately anti-china, no matter what your government may tell you.
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  88.  @Uhoh11111  not really. Egypt will get the same safety systems the UK gets. It’s just as you said, UK is much more densely populated and almost every stretch of land is owned by someone. And they can demand compensation for their loss of property. That drives costs - land acquisition
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  89.  @Uhoh11111  that’s not that big of a problem as both would have to built a foundation for the rails; which will be laid in concrete. As I said, most of Egypt is uninhabited desert that belongs to the state. Not in UK
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  90. That is very much false. The Pyramids are among the oldest still standing structures. The Kaaba as a religious symbol is of unknown age, it certainly existed in pre-islamic times but we don''t know for how long. As an actual physical construct, it isn't all that old.
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  91. City tunnel construction is much more expensive. You have so many pipes, canals and electric cables…, you must be careful with foundations and you have few access points. Logistics is more challenging and the terrain is entirely different. It makes sense.
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  92.  @wp4484  He isn't too wrong though. Chinese Railway doesn't face the same hurdles other western competitors face.
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  93.  @wp4484  He isn‘t overstating on stereotypes. He is correct that several control mechanisms in China are missing that are existing in the west to protect one’s against government overrreach. It is not competition per se. I mean it in the sense that comparable businesses in Europe, America have costs Chinese Railways does not have. But China sees the west as competitor. We already compete everywhere
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  94.  @wp4484  Who told us? Easy answer, reality. Chinese businesses compete with us, Chinese government subsidises them to outcompete ours. China as a government tries to form alliances that work in their favour, get deals that work in their favour... China is a competitor in all areas. And competition is good. Control mechanisms like independent judiciary? Elections open to everyone? Hurdles. Well, can Chinese people go to court and successfully make their individual cases heard when it impacts the new HSR line? China has a much different and more forced approach, there is no reason to deny it. And yes, we are content with the status quo. Could be better but the investment needed is too big. Don't forget, China starts basically from scratch and has to catch up. The west is saturated with development.
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  95.  @wp4484  Well, I rather have a choice than none. At least I know my voice counts, even a little bit. Yes, Trump was an epic failure but there are countless examples where non-democratic government royally fucked up. May I remind you of a certain famine exacerbated by Chairman Mao in the 50s? Or how a non-democratic government in Cambodia almost eradicated 1/3 of their own citizens... I have lived with a Chinese roommate for years. Nice fellow. Interested in politics. Point is that the judiciary is not free in China. It is heavily influenced by the state party and there are cases of show trials. The west is developed. China is for most metrics not on par with the west. There is a glass ceiling and China will one day reach that too. Consider the railway as an example. Right now China can make those unprecedented investments because largely rail infrastructure sucked before and was not existing. The total track length in 1980 was 53,000 kilometers of rail. Compare that to my several times smaller home nation Germany. It had 45,000 in east and west combined. And mind you, our nation is several times smaller. So we had a developed network already in place. China did not and could buy into the newest thing on the market, high speed rail. Meanwhile Germany had those investments already made, albeit for slower speeds. The reason why China looks so new is because it is largely newly built. Wait some 50 years and you will largely use the same infrastructure you use today with all the limitations. The next big riser, lets say India will go the same pathway of development in 20 years will come up with the then newest gadget in infrastructure and that will look like it will outlcass yours.
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  96. Nah, wages are cheaper but hardly free. Costs per kilometer are some 17 million dollars.
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  97. Just because the ministries aren't there anymore doesn't mean they can't be overthrown... Why are people always blaming the west? Many western allied nations managed to radically improve their economies.
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  98.  @user-or1rm1ol3q  Never say never. Al Sisi will stay in power if he can deliver economic prosperity and social safety for everyone. So I wish him, and therefore Egypt, best of luck.
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  99.  @user-or1rm1ol3q  What is this supposed to mean?
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  100. Debt
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  101.  @odzergaming  Just check the levels of debt in China, not just government but also government owned enterprises and private debt. It is similarly high as the US
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  102. True. But those who can afford should move there. Make room for people in Cairo...
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  103. This is an infrastructure channel, not a history channel. There are more than enough channels covering the history of Israel and the conflict.
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  104.  @coinstorm_  The project of HS2 is still in a very political phase. The growth of Israeli infrastructure is not very political because it is mostly privately driven. What do you want? Should B1M cover the entire history of the conflict from the 1920s onwards? No, he wisely did not cover that minefield.
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  105. Keep in mind that it is mainly Republicans that throw in blocks into this projects
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  106.  @paddyotterness  I doubt it is all bots but they certainly push a Bejing-friendly narrative...
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  107. I‘d much rather live in Israel than in Palestinian territories. At least kn Israel they don’t have „no Jews allowed“ signs on their city entrances.
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  108.  @Omer1996E.C  Spend the money on infrastructure and that is a good thing.
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  109. Tax payers...
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  110. Ahaha
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  111. That would be a delay of days… smartass
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  112. Cause a train can go where a ship cannot. And people like speed
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  113. Yep, people always see the costs, not the benefit. Mainly because are tangiable and benefits aren't-
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  114. Because a) costs in NY are always higher and b) this isn't only a tunnel.
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  115. Especially given areas like the NEC which are mostly flat anyway.
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  116. Actually many protesters are NIMBY conservatives
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  117. Any proof for that allegation..
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  118. Learn to listen; the biggest „immersed tunnel“. Concrete elements assembled, tugged into place and then submerged
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  119. BS
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  120. Nowhere is meant as Merced and Bakersfield.
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  121. Ahahahaha. 1. The reason is that China builts in a quantity to truly gain the economies of scales. Many European projects are designed for a specific segment. China has factories that produce pre-segmented bridges. Vastly cheaper but the European method allows stronger bridges.... Nothing really about corruption. China expanded their network when corruption was still rampant. And you don't just forbid corruption. 2. Incomparible? China is great with infrastructure projects but don't forget that Swiss and Austrian engineers built tunnels that vastly eclipse that of Chinese engineers in magnitute and difficulties. Japan has HSR for 50 years and no deaths despite earthquakes and tsunamis. American engineers are about to launch a helicopter on Mars. Truly, don't gloat too much. Arrogancy is nothing that would suit a culture designed on modesty. 3. Don't forget that the Chinese leaders alienate a lot of leaders in Asia... Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia... And no, I am not misinformed by western media lol. Joining China economically is a sound decision but hegemony is nobody anyone wants. 4. Western nations to steal Chinese technology? Please, China forces joint ventures onto every western company to gain tech. Chinese hacker groups try and steal secrets from European servers....
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  122. Well, I think it will be finished.
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  123. Did you protest the Trumpian tax bill, entirely unpaid for? According to CBO, this bill will increase debt by 250 billion over 10 years
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  124. That's a tunnel between France and Italy... Germany got nothing to do with it.
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  125. Nah, German companies built the mirrors so quality won't be a problem.
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  126. Actually no. That was the military…
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  127. Weirdly rnough, they aren’t
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  128. True but they have the skill to pull such a feat. The US does not.
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  129.  @earltower4227  I mean the construction...
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  130.  @youvanced6593  Because they were quite militant. Went to every court, blocked everything until all courts have had their say. Even a plebiscite.
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  131. Cars will not become completely autonomous. Not in the next decades. Even with Tesla you have to stay alert and monitor the car. The US just wasted decades because they couldn''t get anything done thanks to special interests.
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  132. Doubt that the US under Trump would have defended Taiwan anyway... The US is in decline because people like Bush wasted years and tons of money. People like Reagan blew up successful policies for trickle down economics and people like Gingrich poisoned the political climate to an extend that partisanship is the norm. Half the US hates the other half. The fact that you think dems are neo marxists shows what is wrong with America.
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  133. 1. It is not fascist. 2. It doesn’t engage in Apartheid, read about the South African Apartheid system first. 3. We should boycott all human rights abusers - starting with pretty much all their neighbours.
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  134. Blame the law. It is incredibly hard to acquise the land needed for CAHSR. A mountain isn’t owned by anyone. Fertile farmland in the central valley is
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  135.  @CFG39  People don‘t want to sell and politicians around small towns have little intentions to aid the development of a project they won’t benefit. So they block things…
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  136. Egypt have enough people to tax and a Suez Canal that brings in a lot of mone
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  137. All bridges can be used for military purposes… Going to Finland would already be possible via Denmark either. And don’t ubderestimate the trade volume
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  138. But they had to fund it and travel through it.
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  139.  @sklitterbeer106  Sadly this isn't true though. There are many subway stations in the world with bigger steepness and your luggage doesn't run away. Beware of pickpocketers.
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  140. What a stupid bot
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  141.  @scanida5070  In this case, court rulings and procedural problems.
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  142. It's a and b,
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  143. Don't throw the entire Western world into this. We Europeans have largely equally nice public infrastructure, though older, on average not that fast and not shiny new.
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  144.  @user-kd3gz1hl1e  China is not a friend
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  145.  @gabrielc6252  Ebola passed, Spanish flu passed, plague....
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  146. Yes, because otherwise why should NYC pay any money to the federal budget? They are net federal payers. They pay more into the budget than they receive.
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  147. Your wishes don’t change reality
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  148. Can people afford to live in those cities though? I agree, you have to spend to make development, but IMHO they should spend a lot more on schools, especially primary enrollment. Agriculture and education, this is important.
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  149. They are not...
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  150.  @sheenasmith4555  Japan has been the second largest economy for decades. With a population 10% of Chinas....
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  151. Die Anstalt is a satirical programm which took up the unfounded talking points of activists. They aren’t engineers
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  152. LOL.
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  153. Don’t forget that costs depend on a lot of things. In Seattle building was difficult due to terrain i. An urban space
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  154.  @MG-jm1yh  Could you provide commentary in English?
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  155.  @EricWayne0807  Rail is almost always more expensive than flight. Simple reason. You have 1300 kilometer of track between Bejing and Shanghai. That just cost a lot to lay and to maintain. Air is free. It just cost some radar and flight controllers. But those exist for HSR too. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how much ticket prices will rise when maintenance will become an issue. They use solid tracks which have quite a lot of life but also are a pain to maintain once damaged. Plus, concrete can be poured incorrectly. Are you a Chinese living in China?
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  156.  @blackhole9961  China has political will to do it. Germany, France, Spain, Japan all have labour laws and they managed to get it done especially given that Germany and Japan are much more densely populated than California.
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  157.  @blackhole9961  That also means they have much less land available to built a HSR. LA and SF are large enough to supply a meaningful HSR route between them. And densely populated enough so that people will make the trip to the train stations.
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  158.  @blackhole9961  There is sprawl but there is enough demand between inter city travel. They are distanced far enough between them.
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  159.  @blackhole9961  As I previously explained it to you, you only look at the direct time it takes for the journey. But you need to travel to the airport and depending on where you this may or may not be closer. You will need to be at least an hour earlier, better even earlier with luggage. Pass through security and wait at the gate. That whole flight is weather dependent unlike trains. After landing you taxi and then you need to wait for a parking spot, wait until you get your property. Trains are faster because you save yourself a lot of hassle. In Europe you can observe that depending on travel times the train is competitive at 4h and beats the airline anytime below 3h. France: Paris - Marseille, once on the busiest routes in France, now obsolete and hardly served at all. The train takes 3h for 770 kilometers. It isn't preposterous to think that the same effect cannot happen in California. Especially given the huge demand between those two cities, San Jose, Bakersfield et cetera.
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  160. China doesn’t have the best reputation. Many countries have now realised that any infrastructure they built uses Chinese steel, concrete, engineers and workers. Most of the time the local economy can contribute very little to it. So why would countries take on debt to finance Chinese companies?
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  161. Nope.
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  162. The thing is they lack political support from a coalition. They never get the support of the people and environmentalists drag every project on and on and on.
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  163. Stuttgart isn't the only affected region. As BW is a main sponsor of the project and beneficiary, the people of Mannheim should have a say too. And maybe, just maybe, protestors need to realise that protests need to run orderly and not against court rulings. Police had the right to clear the area. Follow police....
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  164. For most people in the world, Israel is normal…
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  165.  @KaplingMagnum  Guess how it came to be an Arab land. With conquest… Jews have been living there way before any Arab nation existed.
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  166. Actually most red states are net federal takers...
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  167.  @blackhole9961  My point is that this guy thinks this is bad. Because mostly red states profit from federal spending as a portion of funds allocated to them.
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  168. Ehm, yes? Plus it allows locomotives to transport more cargo at esch go. So you massively increase cargo capacity
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  169. The rich will pay for the room with lots of money - income for the state. And it will ease some burden on Cairo. It isn't the best project but it isn't a desaster. There are other projects that have wasted more money.
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  170.  @alimaher1  Yep, I agree that this is overzealous building. Some cheaper and smaller design could have been better so that Egypt could finance schools.
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  171. Sunken
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  172. Too many NIMBYs. A great many Germans do not like to be disturbed by anything and bureaucracy and slow processes....
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  173. Unless they relocate to China.... Not possible.
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  174. Maybe accept what courts allow…
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  175.  @SomePotato  The right to peacefully assemble, yes. But it isn’t a right to thwart the law. The main escalation was when police came to cut down some trees as per court allowed it. The protestors tried to stop this. They were told by police to leave the area as they needed to prepare for the construction start. They didn’t follow the police order. Sorry but demonstrations have to follow police orders.
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  176.  @SomePotato  Yet what law is it when people can just stop construction works which are completely legal in accordance with the law…
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  177. It takes 11h.
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  178.  @adamkendall997  This is 1.2 trillion.
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  179. The US has more problems than just culture wars between dems and republicans. The big problem is the fact that republicans largely left sanity behind and are not using government as a strong hand in the world but would just rather cut taxes...
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  180.  @kirzuvo7145  Not even American or conservative....
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  181. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQMP2eIsBtM&t=134s
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  182. Blame the people along the proposed route with obstruction and suing everything.
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  183. It will come. It will crash. Check the levels of debt (not just government debt).
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  184.  @weizhang2834  And you of your several 100 million people in poverty
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  185. You aren't demonised by the media. This is criticism and a lot of that is not unjustified. If anything, I think it is laughable that you think Western media is steered in the same way Chinese media is.
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  186. Nobody needed those architects of death...
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  187.  @isprikitikburkabush6200  the missiles are pretty cheap.
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  188. Yes
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  189. Costs of land acquisition. Nobody lives 2 kilometers below the mountains
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  190. Lol…
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  191. Land acquisition, law suits and plain incompetence.
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  192. We still can do though. China is impressive in science and in construction but unless you develop some more personal contributions and freedoms Europeans will never see you as an equal. How can the unfree be equal to the free?
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  193. It is built almost to completion.
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  194. The thing is that all those bureaucrats and governmental infrastructure is already in place in Cairo. Moving them 45 kilometers isn't such a big deal.
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  195. Doubt it will be built. Too expensive for not enough demand
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  196. That is indeed a question most Chinese and Youtubers never cover. Investment is not a one time expense. You can finance such projects fine when your economy grows 6% a year. Good luck when it is just 2%. And when you have it all, you need to maintain it which will only increase until a point where it isn't feasable to built new but when significant expenses must be made. Europe has less HSR (it is smaller and) because it already had infrastructure largely in place.
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  197. He could perhaps also make a video why Hamas aims missiles onto Israeli civilians and why Palestinian terrorists kill unarmed civilians with alarming regularity.
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  198. It isn't too bad if you get infrastructure for it.
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  199. Europe really isn’t all that interconnected by rail. Maybe Western Europe but it still takes a day to travel from Germany to Rome by train. And Northern Africa is even larger than Europe.
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  200.  @FarsightAE  Maybe for freight this could be a possibility. But I lack the phantasy for passenger rail, sorry. Morocco is 3700 kilometers away from Egypt. Nobody will sit in such a train.
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  201. Let them… I really don’t care what China laughs about. They won’t be able to get out of their country soon…
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  202. Nope…
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  203. That is false. China does not have the same power than the US. Not diplomatically, not militarily and economically they just reached parity. Right now the west is a major military, cultural and economical alliance comprising some 50% of the worlds GDP. China would have to do a lot of investment and stop wolf warrior diplomacy if it ever intends to replace the Pax Americana.
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  204. PPP is only good if you do not trade. In reality a lot of goods are traded from around the world.
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  205.  @EnriqueVivancoH  That is false....
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  206. The Japanese manage.
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  207. It has been shown time and time again that adding lanes does little to reduce traffic.
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  208. Anstalt lied to you. And you should always look out for your luggage. By the way, many stations in Germany have the same or higher gradients…
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  209. Actually no. They don’t have the money, they have assets on the stock market
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  210. The fact that this increases capacity and reduces travelling times for millions of tons of goods
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  211.  @edward5228  Democratic is easily defined. And the way the CCP defines it is inherently not democratic. Democratic means that there are elections which are free, fair and open to everyone. The Chinese version is neither, a decision making process only at party level and the party is not open for everyone unlike the Western system. Add to that the significantly lower rights of the average Chinese and I get angry that you try to redefine democracy to your non-democratic example. Be at least honest about it.
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  212. Do you think that this problem with religion is gradually reducing or is it becoming worse.
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