The Monopoly on Rails: How China Won the Bullet Train Race @BehindAsia
The Monopoly on Rails: How China Won the Bullet Train Race @BehindAsia
Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 29 minutes ago
High-speed trains used to be bespoke, artisanal engineering marvels built by Europeans and Japanese. China changed the math. This video explores how China used a ruthless "Market for Technology" strategy to absorb the world's best rail tech, standardize it, and turn the bullet train into a mass-produced industrial commodity, creating the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer, CRRC.

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