Tazara: Why China built a railway that many thought would fail - Friends of Socialist China
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This short film made by CGTN documents the history, present situation and prospects of the Tazara Railway which links Zambia and Tanzania.  By far China’s largest foreign aid project at the time, it was built during the first half of the 1970s, when China was itself still a poor country and after the United States, … Continue reading Tazara: Why China built a railway that many thought would fail
  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I hate the double standards people apply with their talk of “failing” railways. Railways are not supposed to be a money-making machine, just like roads aren’t. There is almost certainly a sequence of roads linking your front door with the Bering Sea, and no one calls it “failing”