{"id":122777,"date":"2025-11-08T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/122777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:29:13","slug":"why-china-is-going-full-speed-ahead-with-debt-ridden-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/122777\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China is going full speed ahead with debt-ridden high-speed rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251105N China Changbaishan station\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Changbai Mountain Station near the North Korean border: China&#8217;s high-speed rail network spans the country but\u00a0passenger volume is low and operator debts are rising. (Photo by Kohei Fujimura)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KOHEI FUJIMURA<\/p>\n<p>November 8, 2025 10:39 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DALIAN, China &#8212; China&#8217;s ambitious\u00a0high-speed rail build-up has resulted in debt approaching $1 trillion, but the country appears determined to stay the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Changbai Mountain Station near the North Korean border: China&#8217;s high-speed rail network spans the country but\u00a0passenger volume is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[77829,114,1657,77830,184,72296,25782,27760,85,8854,46,45787,1592,8849],"class_list":["post-122777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ahead","tag-business","tag-china","tag-debt-ridden","tag-economy","tag-full","tag-going","tag-high-speed","tag-il","tag-is","tag-israel","tag-rail","tag-speed","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}