Train of thought
Last year I took a http://www.youtube.com/sifan64#p/a/f/0/q2gxJKbLOHo on the Wuhan-Guangzhou rail line and enjoyed it.
I wrote this about it: China has many fast comfortable new train services, like this three-hour, 1,200 km service from Wuhan to Guangzhou. At first, the Chinese government opposed railways and the first one was bought by the Chinese government and destroyed. They said railways were western things unsuitable for China. Today, the Chinese government opposes democracy, freedom of speech and human rights. They say these are western things unsuitable for China...
About 400 people watched the video and I got some angry criticism from people who said westerners are pushing China into democracy too fast.
I am glad that I was not on that train from Wenzhou, the one where 40 people died, 200 were injured, and 200 just disappeared into thin air, or were buried inside the train...
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This photo was taken on 2011-08-16 at Guangzhou-Wuhan, China