{
  "id": 10585279,
  "title": "China’s High-Speed Trains Race to a Trillion Dollar Debt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/chinas-high-speed-trains-race-to-a-trillion-dollar-debt",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T01:28:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Chiang Rai Times",
    "slug": "chiang-rai-times",
    "url": "https://www.chiangraitimes.com/china/chinas-high-speed-rail-debt/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Last Updated on September 29, 2026 by Jeff Tomas BEIJING – China’s high-speed rail network is widely celebrated as a modern engineering marvel, but it hides a deeply troubling financial reality. Over the past fifteen years, the country has rapidly built over 48,000 kilometers of highly advanced passenger railway track. This unprecedented expansion was originally […] The post China’s High-Speed…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}