Today we'll be examining the argument of a prominent Chinese scholar that China has built too much High-Speed Railway that is underutilised, unprofitable, and will cause major economic problems in the future. We ask why the state-government would pursue such a misguided policy, and how it's beginning to affect the rest of the world too.

Read Lu's original essay here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-iBh9BPpi7kl2BGhkGWHaw 

Chapters 
(00:00) Introduction - HSR and white elephants
(05:00) The history of China's HSR
(11:10) Arguments against HSR 
(25:56) Spillover 

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