This is a truly incredible article that criticizes China's plans to build high speed rail to under-served parts of China by taking the angle that it won't make money, and therefore is stupid. Amazing that infrastructure projects that help rural Chinese gain access to a high speed rail network is criticized from the angle of profit-making when making a profit is never the point with infrastructure projects. The NYC subway system wasn't built to "make a profit," but that doesn't mean it was a bad idea. But China bad so somehow them building a crazy amount of high speed rail is bad.
Push back, let your social circles know it's all bullshit, and when the moment comes where the imperialist West tries to begin a hot war with China, flood the streets. Xi Jinping doesn't give a shit that some Terminally Online folk call him Winnie the Pooh, and this Bloomberg article isn't going to stop China's high speed rail network from being the best in the world. That's kind of the best part about watching all of this—the West will wring their hands but China played them good, and now there's very little they can do to stop China.
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Unfortunately it's not all bullshit. Surely this article is total bullshit, but the camps in Xinjiang are real, and China's nationalism creates plenty other valid China bad talking points. Still, it's nothing the US hasn't done equally or worse, but nobody talking China bad will be interested in hearing US comparisons.