{"id":1016,"date":"2018-02-01T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:30:02","slug":"why-would-china-want-to-finance-a-railway-between-stockholm-and-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Why would China want to finance a railway between Stockholm and Oslo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1017\" src=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0495.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0495\" width=\"2448\" height=\"1836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0495.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0495-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0495-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a>A delegation from the China Association for Promoting International Economic &amp; Technical Cooperation has visited Oslo to discuss the possibility of investing in a high-speed railway linking the Norwegian capital with Stockholm in neighbouring Sweden. Relations between Beijing and Oslo have thawed recently, after years of a diplomatic deep-freeze in the wake of the\u00a0\u00a0controversial 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident. This has re-opened salmon exports valuable to Norway. But why would China now plough money into local Scandinavian infrastructure? I explain more on <a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/the-globalist\/\">the Globalist, on Monocle 24<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/392836977&amp;color=%2300cc11&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation from the China Association for Promoting International Economic &amp; Technical Cooperation has visited Oslo to discuss the possibility of investing in a high-speed railway linking the Norwegian capital with Stockholm in neighbouring Sweden. Relations between Beijing and Oslo have thawed recently, after years of a diplomatic deep-freeze in the wake of the\u00a0\u00a0controversial 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}