First 'Silk Road' train arrives in Tehran from China

Well said JCW of LA

Wish the U.S. could go back to capitalism. Our socialist leaning government is failing at all levels.

Leangle, ------ You are living in the Dark ages. Capitalism gave growth to mass production so Imelda Marcos ( Philippines ) was able to buy 3000 pairs of shoes, but unfortunately she could only wear One pair. That is why only 1 % of the population ( 480 billionaires keep getting richer and richer. 99 % of us have to bite the dust. ........ US Army war Veteran

Wild - you should pay attention to reality, capitalism is alive and well in the US!

Wilderedbe is obviously not in touch reality, too sad!

Great idea but GOP politics says NO

Good luck with that. All jobs and manufacturing have been sold to China by our politicians. Plus we have no money to board that imaginary train. Face it. We have been dubbed by our leaders!!!

The US built the freeway system when there was "no money". Need a will.

what are you guys talking about? just join the [mercenary] i mean army as a job and bring democracy across the world by destroying other countries.. 600 billion defense [more like offensive] budget. plenty of money in the military.

Peter. Yes right! Like greedy capitalist Oil companies, car manufacturer and tire companies like Goodyear will let you build rails or high speed commuter’s trains between states or in state. Just google “anti-trust standard oil of Ohio, GM, Goodyear and Rockefellers” and you will get your answers.

The idea is great, but we all know it will never going to get built! Our politicians and their bosses won't allow it.

passenger rail is notoriously unprofitable. why do you think big rail dumped it decades ago. look up how hugely profitable CSX and other big rail is now without human cargo. also see how razor thin margins are for airlines, since they ship humans too.

Building back our railway system is a great plan.

Yes. Nixon's Visits to China come to mind.

Put That Train inside Hyperloop. Far Better.

Peter, great idea. But it is not going to happen, thanks to our disfunctioning democracy!

US is a poor country with less interest in economic development, huge debit and diminished manufacturer. Do you know one ordinary Chinese can sell 100 square meters apartment in Beijing and get 1 millions US dollar to enjoy better life like : pay best US university to train the kids ; buy foreclosed house and remodel it for good profit.

We're building Aircraft carriers and useless jets to fight someone's enemies, When we should be building up / replacing our infrastructure... Thanks Politicians...

The us has massive rail ways. I don't know what everyone is talking about.

I live in New Jersey, the local road not even able to fix for the last five years, building railroad from Alaska to Chile is out of your mind. Even if US have money, it could take 10 years to finish the drawing of the plan.

You do realize that most shipping companies already make extensive use of railroads, right? They've actually made a major comeback in recent years because they streamlined and standardized the shipping crates used on boats to be transferred from there to tractor-trailer frames then from there to railway cars without uncoupling anything from the trucks.

Amtrak exists for passenger transport, but most people prefer either flight for long distances and driving for shorter ones, so they don't tend to do that well here in the US the way they do in, say, Germany, where gas is about $6.50 a gallon.

Im a Chinese,I really hope america has more smart people like u,unfortunately...

that's makes usa patrol of sea a waste of taxpayer's money.

cheap fuel from Iran

US naval fleets are deemed useless now.......LOL

Capitalism will work that out. No need to do the calculations. Having the route, especially considering it was based on existing rail is cost effective almost under every imaginable circumstance.

China was an advance country with wealth and military before whites even came out of the caves and had sex with pigs.

I can not said it better.

does she really have to be paid to tell the American people what she will do IF elected ??

The hag charges about $175,000 a speech . Rest assured she has no intention of giving it up.

half a trillion dollars is in the budget proposal for the military,so they can build even more unneeded ships and weaponry.

What ever happened to 'converting' Albert Gore's Generous Sized Posterior to a

floatation device?

When two oldest civilizations collaborate, they have history and brains as their guide and they will work to lead the world to run pass the ignorant and clueless young guns of "democrazy." The military-industrial-security- pharmaceutical complex model will soon self-destruct in it's own grandeur of illusion as it spends its worthless paper currency in IOUs saddling the future generations. In time, I hope, we Americans will all come to our senses and retake our government back and have it run by people with sanity, honesty, integrity, and respect for our political institutions, foreign sovereignties, and, most of all, a real keen sense of responsibility to the citizenry and country rather than to political parties and religion. I know I knows what I'm thinking is also a grandeur of illusion.

That is ok because we don't need them.

Elliot, you most certainly do. Have you seen your national debt? USA is done.

Stupidity has no limits.

@JuanL

We think you mean 'those of the American Revolution' used key concepts from the Chinese? lol

Talk about 'knows nothing', you seem to know nothing about the very very long Chinese history.

This 'new silk road' is 're-invention' of the Chinese 'old silk road'.

The reason, and the only reason, Chinese were able to have a 'miraculous' transformation of their massive society in just over one generation, is that Chinese recalled their lengthy history, which was well written down and kept, from 'ancient' Chinese dynasty to dynasty.

Chinese workers built US west coast railways and got Chinese Exclusion Act treatment.

@Nirbija

And don't forget the great contribution of Mao Zedong in introducing and persisting on some new thinking in the nation building.

Salute to Father of Railways: Jim Tin Yeo. [Hong Kong pronouncing] who started China's dream of building railways when Westerners in China thought his plan was engineeringly impossible to be built by Chinese at the time.

cant build in the us. the fed gov gets in the way

Don't republicans always balk at the cost of infrastructure? Lolz. Another sheep.

i doubt that any railroad can be built as cheaply here in North America - China/Iran has extremely low wages - probably free labor in some areas

I almost gave you a thumbs until I read your Obama rant...Obama sent a bill to the republican congress to build a high speed railroad across the country, put Americans back to work. They tanked it!

@SqL

What's old is 'new' again.

The Chinese foundation is old.

The so-called 'new thinking' is merely superficial, and is influenced by a 'new' era.

Watch the massive migration of Chinese people every 'New Year', and understand an example of 'old' Chinese foundation underpinning the 'new thinking'.

@J R 314

It IS NOT 'wages'!

It is WILL!

When US leaders had to catch the Russians in the 'space race', no one wasted time talking 'wages'.

The focus was on American will to succeed.

Chinese had never allowed the 'wages' (Western obsession) and other superficial distractions to get in their way of huge infrastructure projects.

And incidentally, so did the Africans who built those massive pyramids; they did not concern themselves with nonsense wages.

The UNITY OF PURPOSE of a nation trumps wages and the like.

Face reality the US is a bankrupted failed state and it will remain the same.

well said JuanL

Nirbija... the USA is a "ME" country - nowhere near the same as it was 50 years ago - whole different mindset

Cry much? Be a man and go to work.

Headwar, Try to stay on topic, your statement is really off the wall and doesn't cut it. What Richard said is the truth, and he's just pointing to the benefits of being friendly and building good relationships around the world rather than warmongering !

you are so right Richard , thank you for this great statement .

Sadly

Apparently Richard doesn't a clue what is happening in South China Sea. Please ask Vietnamese fishermen or sailors who have died under the "peaceful " Chinese military. Please check the facts before making a fool of yourself.

They did invade Vietnam briefly after the U.S. left, but otherwise I get your point.

Richard must write dialog for the X-Files. He sounds just like Mauldar.

Headwar is the prime example of our failed public education system.

True

right on target

The other half, of course, is trusting these rogue nations to actually pay the bills.

You sound like a troll.

Donald Trump 2016

@ Madeski, USA is a imperialist country under the disguise of democracy. They want whole world under their feet. If peace exists then how come they sell their weapons? Arm lobby wont allow peace to return. All Capitalist countries are ruled by the rich. Parliament is a rubber stamp which enact law to suit their purpose.

American isn't run by people loyal to America. It is run by Zionists who don't care about America. They want to create war and turmoil. That is their position.

YES. Native American ALONE should Rule Amerika; NOT Uropeans.

Yes. You might not need Freedom and Democracy, but your people do want to come to US for Freedom and Democracy. I have seen people bad mouth about America and found out most of their relatives and themselves trying to get US Visa's.

Africa can him back any time if they'd like. Africa can shower Iranians, Russians, and Chinese with all the love they want too. America doesn't give a #$%$. America does not need them. And if the world is worried about how we might respond to such nonsense now, just wait until next November when we elect a President with some balls.... Trump will make the troublemakers disappear FOREVER and will do so with our blessings!

It is sooooo easy to see that these nay-sayers are nothing more than a bunch of paid agent trolls from their respective Commie, Muhammad child raper, Bolshevik countries. They WISH they lived in as great a country as ours.

@Junkyard, white emigrants have killed all native Americans i.e. Red Indians. Basics of America is full of crime. Don't blame any section people, USA is ruled by the Imperialists / Capitalists. Their nature and greed is same world wide.

ALL TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO DO IS FIRE PEOPLE AND SUE..OH, AND SCREAM LIKE A BABY WHEN SOMONE MAKES HIM UNHAPPY. GREAT PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL, MADESKI

CB, THIS BORN AMERICAN SAYS YOU ARE UP TO YOUR EARS IN HORSE POO. WAY PAST TERMINAL STUPID.BUT WELLLL DESERVING OF A SWINE LIKE TRUMP[

If Thump get elected, I will retire next June, because it will not have any money left and the US stock market will be clashed.

Madeski, I totally agree with you, but the USA today is not the same country we know 200 years ago, it's occupied by evil intention, special interest and self-serving politicians, I seriously doubt that they have the ability to heal themselves back to where they were.

Horn's nest.

Hornet's nest.

The fun part is that US talks about international laws to everybody else.

Yet, the USA is the World's Superpower, and Israel is the Region's Superpower. I'd say that strategy won, while you all face extinction. allahu ackbar?

Cheap Chinese garbage isn't a benefit to all. They will flood the market with their #$%$, putting Iranian manufacturers out of business.. Iran will come to regret this move. Even cheap Chinese steal, horrible and yet half the cost, floods any market that they trade with..

@Costello and what Iranian manufacturers are you referring to Sean???

@Sean Costello

Do you not yet realize that Americans & Europeans LOVE, and cannot resist, your 'cheap Chinese garbage'? lol

So the Iranians would just be emulating the West's love of 'cheap Chinese garbage'.

What's so bad about Persians IMITATING Western preferences for 'cheap Chinese goods'?

You may not know this yet (because Western propaganda is still ringing loudly in your ears) but the Chinese produce goods and services FOR A WIDE PRICE RANGE.

If you are poor, then you can only afford the 'cheap Chinese garbage'.

However if you have some money, then you will be able to afford the Chines high-end products, like i-pod, etc, etc. lol

@Costello... 95% of everything you own is made in China. Unless you have gotten used to living in garbage and trash, I'd say maybe you need to re-evaluate whether it's really trash.

the republican zionists backed by the AIPAC will say that.

Bingo! You are correct!

They have to make room for more illegals.

Good thing it hasn#$%$ a waste. Billions for a trip to Gay land.

@Donald:

At least the Calif. taxpayers have suffered the consequences of

high-speed rail.

Right on the button. I live in Fresno, California, but I plant trees in China for the last 4 years to reduce smog. Great place for most citizens, I have been to the most remote villages where my wife and I are the only foreigners they have ever seen much less Americans. never been treated better in my life. Feel like a Rock Star over there. The silk road is one of the area over the next few years will be planted to trees along the rail right of way. Why not do the same here.

Ray, you are a Chinese troll. what a dumb comment!!

Ray

Nice upload.

Too bad about the air quality and murder rate of

Fresno. I have some ranch land in 3 Rivers, by the other entrance to Sequoia Nat'l Park.

The environmental degradation has been a killer to the old Sequoia trees. Not drought,

they survived that over all their lives, SMOG !

Problem, to parallel mountain ranges make for a great smog trap, even if it is not produced there.

De-People the Central Valley and zone it

Agricultural. Y'think.

Fresno needs YOU & Wife more than China

Thumb Down,

I guess someone loves

the Fresno Air quality

Fund war machine. No money for infrastructure.

Thumbs down. What did you want me to say? You know its the truth. You think China is bending over backwards to accommodate people who arent citizens and are there illegally? Please. Im sure they are just dying to help them. Meanwhile they have exploded in the past 30 years while we have been figuring out how to screw up the greatest country the earth has ever known on purpose.

that is because highspeed train system is a bad investment. It would take years for investors to recuperate their investments. With airline tickets being so cheap, why would anyone waste their time sitting all day on a train?

Pro V.

The high speed train was derailed by P.C.

when the most direct route was changed for a milk run to the desert and up the valley

NO, because there is always someone getting thrown under the bus.

The high speed train system is a bad investment? Every nation that has invested in their high speed rail system has seen progress through productivity and increased mobility. Don't you think that when progressive nations such as China, Germany, Japan, etc. invests heavily on high speed rail system it should say something? The railroad system has always been the backbone of every modern nation, it catapulted the US into what it is today, history is always a good teacher.

Adrian

Agree!

Problem: The High Speed Train in California was intended to move people from the Los Angeles area to the Bay Area as fast as possible.

It got P.C. diverted to the desert and a milk run up the Central Valley. All foreign consultants I know of, French, Japanese,

have been opposed to this rerouting.

Yes America dearly needs "rail"

Cargo, High Speed and Light.

Consider, What Really Did Derail California's

High Speed Rail?

And maybe foster the private sector to rebuild American rail without political, P.C. interference.

And nationalize all rail right of ways so rail "roads" are not so fragmented in ownership.

No kidding, we got people more worried about infrastructure investments raking in profits tomorrow than the long term effect on a nation. Jeezus if the founding fathers thought like that we wouldnt have a rail system or a highway system or a #$%$ nation.

Adrian

Huh? ?

Please say again.

@Roger

Oh, that was the response to pro veritate saying it would take years for investors to recuperate from the investment.

Adrian

Gracias.

:-)

Quality cargo rail coordinated with major harbors would easily beat the costs of trucks.

Management and construction of High Speed rail needs to be left to the private sector to avoid the

fiasco of California's being rerouted for PC

reasons.

And lite rail should be able to manage ones car.

Either via a ferry platform or cars that can

interface with light rail then drive off their exit.

First it would require the Federals

Eminent Domain all Rail Right of Ways

Most are not used nor kept up to use standards.

Then, motivate the private sector to "build".

well said Donald

We're not building a high speed train. That's so 80's. We're building a hyperloop.

@MTB, well said, but first there was a nuke issue in the first place, second only 5% of the nation along with supreme leader calling for Death to America for the internal usage to stay alive.

"Obama at least has gotten the Iran deal and has opened up to Cuba..."

Yes. What a terrible loss for human rights and world stability... Obama cemented his failure with these moves.

Earth to Blueray, is anybody home?? Just a reminder obama is still in office and he has been for these last 7 years and obama has 11 more months to go. So any and every blame goes in obamas lap!

The "misadventure in Libya" was part of Obama's support of "Arab Spring," which led to civil war and backlash repression throughout the Arab world. Tunisia teeters in the balance as the only place Arab Spring might leave lasting positive change. On the other hand, a calamity of colossal proportions engulfs Syria and Libya, that were both stable and peaceful dictatorships before--clearly the far lesser evil compared with the genocidal horrors and mass refugee migrations that are going on and seem destined to continue. The rise of ISIS is the most conspicuous spillover of this awful policy blunder, with wannabe Boko Haram atrocities echoing ISIS across a broad swath of Africa. Obama's biggest foreign policy achievement will be: making George W. Bush look competent! I wouldn't have thought it possible.

GAUCH, YOU SHOULD TRY LIVING IN A PEACEFULL DICTATORSHIP

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