Posts tagged: China

Will Volvo Cars go to China?

The Chi­nese are every­where these days. Until now I’ve made no com­ment about Ford’s plans to sell Volvo Cars. But after my recent post on Chi­nese rail­roads, it feels timely to make a remark on the pos­si­bil­ity that Ford sells Volvo Cars to Chi­nese Geely. I wrote a cou­ple of posts (here, here, and here) […]

Saturday March 20th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

China to connect Asia and Europe with high–speed trains

China is plan­ning to con­nect Asia and Europe with high–speed trains. If realised, an 8000km trip Lon­don to Bei­jing will take 48 hours. Report­edly (SvD, DN, NyT, Inhab­i­tat), three lines are planned: Beijing–London, Kunming–Singapore, and Delhi–Astana (cap­i­tal of Kaza­khstan). It appears that Chi­nese author­i­ties will spare no resources to make their con­try reclaim the name […]

Wednesday March 17th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »