Here’s a great BBC piece about that super-duper high-speed rail service that Tom Friedman is always writing about in China:
China’s Communist Party has expelled a once-powerful former railways minister accused of serious corruption, state-run media report.
Liu Zhijun is under investigation for embezzling more than $120m (£76.52m) while overseeing China’s high-speed rail network, Xinhua says.
He was dismissed from his post last year and will now face a judicial investigation.
A fatal collision of high speed trains last July caused a national outcry.
Mr Liu began his tenure as railways minister in 2003 and led a multi-billion dollar investment programme in the country’s rail network.
He has been accused of taking massive bribes when handing out contracts for China’s high-speed rail link project.
The rest here.