Peter
Treehouser
I was listening to a radio programme about this yesterday, seems like a real possibility of a state owned Chinese firm building new high speed rail systems in California. The piece I heard on the radio was highlighting the fact that a lot of the manual labour on the original railroad construction crews in the 1800's were Chinese, paid a pittance to work hard in dangerous conditions, as was the way of the time. 10,000 of them in fact.
Seems slightly ironic that 150 years later it is the Chinese running the show, probably using local labour to do the donkey work.
You can listen to it here for another 5 days. (starts at 2 hrs 50 mins in.)
Bit from the Huffington Post
Seems slightly ironic that 150 years later it is the Chinese running the show, probably using local labour to do the donkey work.
You can listen to it here for another 5 days. (starts at 2 hrs 50 mins in.)
Bit from the Huffington Post
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