China

National High-Speed Rail is what an upper intermediate income country can afford when it doesn't engage in endless wars.

I wonder what the US would be able to afford if it stopped engaging in endless wars? pic.twitter.com/vzECQYvKci

— Jason Smith - 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) September 22, 2025

China’s investment in metros has been the same order-of-magnitude as its investment in HSR.

As an aside, I find it interesting that it doesn’t attract the same level of critique from the “overinvestment” cabal.

I think it might simply be because they just aren’t that aware of… https://t.co/vSc8DbpxGA

— Glenn (@GlennLuk) September 22, 2025

Also the area around that particular subway station (Caojiawan station, Chongqing metro) filled up rapidly, proving once again how so much “ghost” journalism consisted of journalists walking into construction sites, taking pictures and then coming up with creative ways on how to… https://t.co/4XPOSyReLA pic.twitter.com/ZmAgmip3AO

— Glenn (@GlennLuk) September 22, 2025