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Acceleration Can’t Save the China Model

Every step had to go wrong for the disaster to happen; for two high-speed trains to collide and derail near Wenzhou City, China, 10 days ago.
Acceleration Can’t Save the China Model
Heng He
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/119920424.jpg" alt="A Chinese man holds up a portrait of his relative as family members of victims who died in the July 23 high-speed train collision demonstrate in the hope of learning the truth about the train collision, at a railway station in Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province on July 27, 2011. One of China's official newspapers accused the authorities of 'arrogance' in their handling of the deadly high-speed train crash, joining a rising chorus of public fury.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)" title="A Chinese man holds up a portrait of his relative as family members of victims who died in the July 23 high-speed train collision demonstrate in the hope of learning the truth about the train collision, at a railway station in Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province on July 27, 2011. One of China's official newspapers accused the authorities of 'arrogance' in their handling of the deadly high-speed train crash, joining a rising chorus of public fury.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)" width="575" class="size-medium wp-image-1799931"/></a>
A Chinese man holds up a portrait of his relative as family members of victims who died in the July 23 high-speed train collision demonstrate in the hope of learning the truth about the train collision, at a railway station in Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province on July 27, 2011. One of China's official newspapers accused the authorities of 'arrogance' in their handling of the deadly high-speed train crash, joining a rising chorus of public fury.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Heng He
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Heng He is a commentator on Sound of Hope Radio, China analyst on NTD’s “Focus Talk,” and a writer for The Epoch Times.
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