Chinese Company to Bid on DC Metro Rail Deal as National Security Hawks Circle

Chinese Company to Bid on DC Metro Rail Deal as National Security Hawks Circle
A CRRC worker walks past an unfinished metro train car in the company's Kunming factory, Yunnan Province, China on April 11, 2016. Brenda Goh/Reuters
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China’s CRRC plans to bid on a big Washington D.C. subway project as a growing number of critics cast the rail car maker as a threat to cyber security and U.S. industry.

The world’s largest maker of passenger trains has roared into the U.S. market in recent years, clinching contracts in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles by underbidding rivals—including Canada’s Bombardier—by hundreds of millions of dollars.