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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (133570)	5/7/2017 4:06:47 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By bart13 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217710

re <<But when it comes to One Belt, China wants capital to come from places other than Chinese sources, which strongly suggests the rate of return is as ghastly as transportation and trade economists who've reviewed it suggest.>> ... suspect china shall do obor w/ or w/o outsized foreign capital, and suggesting china certainly not counting on such capital. re <<This project actually began life in the 1950s as a UN project called the "Trans-Asian Railway" to connect the Western World's Show Palace of Singapore with Istanbul and from there to Europe. Sixty years ago sea transport was far more costly and air travel far less developed so the rail project made sense.>> ... given the 'natural scale' of end-point, should have been obvious to the casual observer that the project made no conceivable sense.