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[2026-04-12] @genHCM: BREAKING: construction begins on Vietnam's first HSR line, 120 km long, speed of 350 km/h across 4 provinces

From Hanoi to Ha Long Bay will take just 30 minutes instead of 3 hours

[2025-12-28] @BeijingDai (it's that annoying bald man again):

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8 days ago, Vietnam announced a cooperation plan between Vietnam's richest man and Germany's Siemens to invest in the construction of the north-south high-speed railway, 8 days later, this Vietnam's rich man announced to give up the plan.

I think everything Vietnam is currently doing is just acting, with the sole purpose of putting pressure or temptation on China to agree to build this north-south railway with harsh conditions such as transferring technology to Vietnam. This is a very common tactic in bidding.

China should just ignore it and welcome Vietnam to try to cooperate with Japan, Germany, France, South Korea or anyone else. China has a lot things to do, such as China-Laos-Thailand railway and the railway in northern Vietnam and doesn't mind waiting another 10 years.

Expand smack down of this Amerikkkan psyop campaign

[2] This is only 4 months after Vingroup signed w/ Siemens for this specific project (and not for North South HSR as many were deliberately misled by "Free Media")

(the other line started almost immediately)

[3] No, Vietnam isn't building high speed rails connecting with China.

This is another classic "Free Media" psyop

@felix375: This is a dumb tactic for Vietnam. Because if they use anyone else's HSR then it won't connect to China. They have to offload everything before entering China.

This will give everyone else in SE Asia a head start. Why go to Vietnam to set up a factory when it costs a lot more?

[4] There will be 2 newly constructed lines using standard gauge 1,435mm, replacing French 1,000mm gauge line

1/ The 187-kilometer Hai Phong-Ha Long-Mong Cai railway

2/The 156-kilometer Hanoi-Lang Son railway

https://theinvestor.vn/vietnam-plans-to-invest-13-bln-in-2-railways-linking-to-china-d13064.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=By+Tri+Duc%2Cof+cargo+yearly+from+2050

@HungNguyenTuan: I am not 100% agreeing with german construction

I would rather see china to build it

Reason?

Experience, and german will gost 4x times and never ending bureaucracy

Since this guy didn't provide any supporting links, anyone want to make a better attempt? It's all in the spirit of inquiry.

@genHCM: Thread for you to educate yourself and STFU:

[2025-12-29] What this Amerikkkan doesn’t want you to remember: the first HSR project in China, from technology transfer to production, all comes from SIEMENS.

https://xcancel.com/BeijingDai/status/2005257234964762988#m (same QRT as OP)

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Let’s help his befuddled audience wake up from historical amnesia 🧵

[2] Let’s remind these losers how embarassing mainland Chinese used to behave while begging for Western technologies.

Now many of these overseas fascists act like THEY invented everything

[2022–11-03] @BeijingDai: Vietnam choose Japan over China in 2010 to build railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh for political reasons.

Now the railway is delayed and practically suspended. It can't be done until 2045.

With the closer tie between China/VN, I hope VN will replace japan with China.

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[3] 5 years after the first HSR project, China was still buying around 1,000 high-speed trains from SIEMENS (!)

[4] The entirety of Chinese HSR industry all started under “digestion, absorption and re-innovation” of foreign technology.

This direction was set even before cooperation with SIEMENS. (note that Jamestown is citing Xinhua correctly here, and he's not saying China's strategy was unsuccessful at all)

[5] China was not only forcing Western companies on techn transfer but also demanded JVa (!)

No such demands have come from any Vietnamese companies to any of their potential HSR partners, incl Chinese ones.

Yet @\BeijingDai cry & lie

[6] Even more, China used market leverage to lobby the Germans allowing Chinese HSR industry to be included in German HSR supply chains.

That’s how they could stay on par with international standards.

[7] It took 10 years with all this shennanigans for China to finally be able to compete against its German teachers.

Not on better quality or better technology. But on PRICE!

This is the characteristics of most Chinese industries for the past 2-3 decades

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[2025-02-24] The graph is outdated as it was written in 2009, when the downfall of Japanese world power status wasn't so obvious. Korea and Taiwan are already Stage 4, and Japan is dangerously falling to Stage 3. Vietnam is likely already at stage 3.

https://wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/gvcs_report_2017_chapter5.pdf

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That last thread is pretty amazing as well, have a look.

@HungNguyenTuan: ? Why hostility?

Read the room bruh that won't work

I said I would prefer chinese construction as they had experience while I have been in Germany many times and knows Germany well, their bureaucracy and quality have gotten worse and it will take mostly forever

If they prove me wrong, then sure

Just not trusting Germany much, as they themselves haven't gotten hsr in germany worth mentioning

I somewhat agree, bumbling man in the replies. This thread lacks sufficient anti-German perspective. I am intrigued by the claim that Viet Nam is implementing China's industrial strategy better than China. It's not overall anti-China, it's anti-Chinese nationalist.

Is it more important to wrench industrial expertise away from the first world, or develop an immediately fully-compatible regional rail system? It's not like Europe's gauge-incompatibility is the main barrier to becoming more i̫͒n͉̋̊t̐ᷘ͂e͙ᷮ͆r̂᷃͂l᷈ᷞ͊i̡᪽͆n̗ᷮᷡk̉᷑̍eͪ᷅̑d̀̈́ᷦ, it's their stupefying lack of capital management.

"Your comments on this?" As they say.

I can't even read replies from my main instance, so should be fun, see you later! Enjoyed the discussion of anarchist vibes on the US left the last one provoked.