Sizing Up The Dragon's 'miracle'

Similar historical devastation follow the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway that connects Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan etc. The Railway Networking had, since then, become a vital strategic project undertaken by the occupying forces to colonize the vast territories under their control. The high-capacity transportation systems effectively facilitate mass demographic resettlement and ease political control and economic exploitation in their colonies. And the Gormo-Lhasa Railway is no different. Historians note that, throughout the twentieth century, successive regimes governing China employed railway lines to consolidate their control in China. In 1859 Li Hungchang, Viceroy of Jiangsu, objected to the construction of a proposed British railway from Suzhou to Shanghai. “Fearful of western imperialist intentions, the government ordered the removal of the Shanghai-Wusung line, the first railway ever built in China, in 1877. The British undertaking was viewed as a national security threat that would encourage ‘invasions of Chinese territory’ and threaten its ‘independence as a nation.’” http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=13677&t=1

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