Moscow Machination

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The sleek, black train rushed out of Shenzhen Station just like any other CSR train. The train, the CRH400A was on its third voyage from Shenzhen to Beijing via other speed worthy clusters. Six days ago on its maiden voyage, there had been a bevy of party officials and media types doing their thing. But today was different. Today was all about routine. All about that vaunted Chinese efficiency.

However the CRH400A, unlike the other trains, was indigenously built, using indigenous corporations, indigenous labor, indigenous materials and critically, indigenous technologies.

Ever since the inception of its high speed rail program, Beijing had been at the mercy of its international partners — Germany and Japan. Initially, the program had had inputs from several European nations as well as Japan. However, over time, the Japanese and Germans — duh, through sheer innovation had snuffed out the competition. Technical aspects of this innovation had come down to Macau, Politburo Members and some skanky Audis.

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