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Sat 04 Apr 2010Silk Road back on map as China extends bullet train network
HIGH SPEED RAIL:CHINA IS IN negotiations to extend its new high-speed rail network to 17 nations, building a new Silk Road to India, central and southeast Asia, Russia and even Europe.
The main obstacles are political; China’s rapid development of bullet trains and high-speed rail networks in the past few years means that technical issues should not be a problem.
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