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Old 01-02-2003, 04:57 PM   #9
jaguar
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Yesterday the first commercial maglev train was tested. It's a deal between Germany and China, in which German firms were so keen to win the contract that they roughly promised to give them the train for almost nothing if China agreed to build the rails.
I misread that as between CHina and Germany the first time, was thinking shit thats a long line.

China is neither communist (except by name), not has a 2 bit distatorship. Your views on wealth there are also rather outdated, go there, it's an eye opener. A city like Shanghai is as rich as any major US city.
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