Vietnam plans to fund a US$67 billion high-speed railway entirely on its own in a demonstration of the Communist-run country's reluctance to accept foreign loans, though some experts said the goal may be unrealistic.
  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    26·
    2 months ago

    Wow, this is incredible! It shows the importance of having a strong backbone of state owned companies.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    Every time I see things like this I just think of the UK’s 95 billion pound non existent “high speed” rail.

    I fucking despise my country. People’s heads should be on spikes for that level of embezzlement.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    2 months ago

    If they build this, and Russia builds high speed rail from vladivostok to moscow i wonder how long it would take to take a train from ho chi minh city to moscow? If its high speed the whole way. A high speed rail system interconnected with Russia, China, and Vietnam would allow a lot of economic interconnectivity between the 3. If they could come to an agreement to keep borders open between them maybe add in the DPRK since its right there too, and perhaps Iran? Would be an extremely powerful economic BLOC and could be a reality in under 50 years if they really pushed for it. Altho the looming WW3 may delay it quite a bit but it could also speed it up since high speed rail would be a great way to move troops and equipment.

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        2 months ago

        If we get rid of the zionist entity and stabilize west asia we could even build railways to connect all of afroeurasia. Eventually as technology advances we may even build bridges across the bering strait and connect the americas to make a global HSR network. We wont see it for a long time but i do think it will happen eventually.

          • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            2 months ago

            Its very unlikely the world “ends” imo. Much more likely we see a massive depopulation event and lose 80% or so of our population. As long as there are places that preserve our knowledge tho we will recover eventually.

              • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
                3·
                2 months ago

                I see it more as shrinking. I think the civilization will shrink both population wise and geographically. There will be large areas that arent inhabited and most people will gather in large cities in the more temperate areas. I think itll be a good thing long term for the planet and for us since nature should recover once it happens, but itll be painful for sure.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
                  5·
                  2 months ago

                  I’m not as sure about that. High technology relies on global supply chains. Minerals are mined in specific parts of the globe, there are specialized factories that only exist in certain parts of the world, and so on. Take advanced chips as just one example of that. You can count the number of foundries on the palm of your hand.

                  As the climate continues to become more unstable, we’re likely going to see a breakdown of global tech chains. In fact, there is historical precedent to this with the fall of the Roman empire where a lot of provinces rapidly descended into the dark ages in a span of a few years.

                  It’s also a question of whether there it’ll be possible to support large cities agriculturally. Even temperate areas will end up having large climate disasters. For example, we’re already seeing this happening with massive forest fires in US and Canada. These kinds of disasters are disrupting food production already, and it’s only going to get worse.

                  One solution could be to start growing food indoors. Incidentally, China is already starting to do a lot of indoor farming which is a good way to ensure steady food supply even in face of stuff like heat waves or other disasters. China is probably also in the best position when it comes to preserving supply chains given that most manufacturing is already happening there.

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 months ago

    Just imagine,people are saying this is too expensive. For the price of 1 year, one single year, of the US military budget, you could build like 15 of these