{"id":988,"date":"2010-08-01T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=988"},"modified":"2010-07-28T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T03:34:50","slug":"new-asian-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/08\/01\/new-asian-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"New Asian rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/02\/fake_photo_tibet_railway_antelope_greenwashing.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"China-Tibet railway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/data\/qinghai-tibet-rr.jpg\" alt=\"where are the antelope?\" width=\"315\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/02\/fake_photo_tibet_railway_antelope_greenwashing.php\"><\/a>China is extending their railroads in all directions, including west to Tibet and southwest towards Burma, either to <a title=\"Lashio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=22.933333,97.75&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;t=m&amp;q=22.933333,97.75\">Lashio<\/a> or <a title=\"Lashio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Bhamo,+Kachin,+Myanmar+&amp;sll=22.933333,97.75&amp;sspn=0.267809,0.528374&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Bhamo,+Kachin,+Myanmar&amp;z=13\">Bhamo<\/a>: Lashio&#8217;s the starting point for the WW II Burma Road but also the end of the Mandalay rail line, while Bhamo&#8217;s the northernmost navigable point on the Irrawaddy river.  Either way, the railroad will connect up with the old French road from Kunming to Hanoi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is extending their railroads in all directions, including west to Tibet and southwest towards Burma, either to Lashio or Bhamo: Lashio&#8217;s the starting point for the WW II Burma Road but also the end of the Mandalay rail line, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/08\/01\/new-asian-rail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-fW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}