Peru seeks high-level meeting with China, Brazil to advance bi-oceanic railroad
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/peru-seeks-high-level-meeting-with-china-brazil-advance-bi-oceanic-railroad-2025-05-26/
- The proposed railway would connect Brazil to a new port on Peru's Pacific coast, creating a trade route with China that would allow it avoid routes going through the Panama Canal and around the southern tip of South America.
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Archangel1313@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
I mean yeah, that's called taking out a loan.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Better than being invaded by "democracy"
Archangel1313@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
x_cell@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
I mean, it's the same thing the IMF and World Bank did to fuck over a lot of poorer countries. While not an invasion, it is still pretty destructive.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 1y
Meh, I thought is a railway crossing two oceans.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Anybody know why this would be better than the Nicaragua canal for China? For Brazil it is clearly good, because it increases the access for its deepest, landlocked parts.
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Because a railroad is much cheaper and easier to build than a canal through mountains and jungles.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Rail is pretty hard to build and operate through the Andes and can't reach the scale of sea freight, which could be achieved through a Nicaragua canal, but fine, it is not meant to compete with the Panama canal, so no need to build another canal.