Hot on the heels of Huawei comes another Chinese offer to help “level up” British infrastructure. Late last week the Financial Times and the magazine Building broke the story that the China Railway Construction Corporation had offered to build HS2 in five years, and at a far lower cost.
What a steal! Or is it?
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