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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 04 June 2015 - 09:04 PM

"Sinosphere" blog; The New York Times, 6/4:

 

High-Speed Rail Aids Disaster Deployments by Chinese Military

 

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Troops at the Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station on Tuesday.Credit Didi Kirsten Tatlow/The New York Times

Loudspeakers screeched no-smoking warnings as scores of men in blue camouflage uniforms massed on platforms No. 6 and 7 at the Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai early Tuesday afternoon, 16 hours after the capsizing of the Oriental Star cruise ship with 456 people on board.

 

It was not clear whether they were sailors headed to Jianli, the site of the sinking on the Yangtze River, but the air of urgency about the man in a white officer’s uniform as he shuffled papers on the ground, and the steady pace of men in blue moving up the escalator, suggested that something was afoot.

 

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Posted 04 July 2015 - 11:55 AM

I post here because this article has both political implications and news on rail transport.  Sloan

 

 

On most days, China's high-speed rail network is for hauling millions — yes, millions — of commuters, vacationers, and tourists around the country.

But on May 14, one section of the growing network served a very different purpose. A People's Liberation Army brigade from the Lanzhou military region boarded a high-speed train and set off for Xinjiang — 300 miles to the west.

 

http://theweek.com/a...ningfast-trains



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Posted 05 July 2015 - 04:20 PM

I merged the previous related thread.

 

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