https://www.scmp.com/rss/328176/feed Will Doig is a journalist covering urban development. He has been an editor at the Open Society Foundations, Next City, and The Daily Beast, and is a recurring guest on NPR. His book, High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia, was published by Columbia Global Reports in May 2018. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Following years of false starts and delays, China’s efforts to build a pan-Asia railway running the length of the Southeast Asian peninsula are finally beginning to gather steam. Tracks are being laid, bridges are rising, and boring machines are tunnelling through the soft limestone of the Himalayan foothills where China and Southeast Asia meet. For China, this surely comes as a relief. The pan-Asia railway is as an early test case for the country’s marquee foreign direct investment effort, the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2158187/chinas-pan-asia-rail-project-slow-track-and-thats-ok?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2158187/chinas-pan-asia-rail-project-slow-track-and-thats-ok?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:00:30 +0000