The story of the worlds most audacious infrastructure project. Less than a decade ago China did not have a single highspeed train in service. Today it owns a network of 14000 miles of highspeed rail far more than the rest of the world combined. Now China is pushing its tracks into Southeast Asia reviving a centuryold colonial fantasy of an imperial railroad stretching to Singapore and kicking off a key piece of the One Belt One Road initiative which has a price tag of 1 trillion and reaches i