When it Comes to High-Speed Rail, Chinese Negotiators Play Hardball

Chinese official Dong Yan made it clear from the get-go: “The project is to drive China’s economy, not foreign economies.”
When it Comes to High-Speed Rail, Chinese Negotiators Play Hardball
A Chinese hi-speed train on a stretch of track between the capital Beijing and Shanghai. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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A Chinese hi-speed train on a stretch of track between the capital Beijing and Shanghai. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.