He points to a Chinese railway being built from Djibouti, on the Red Sea, to Addis Ababa.

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His biggest deal was to swap some hundreds of railway cars full of basic Chinese goods, socks notably, for two Soviet-built aircraft.

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Yet go down to the railway station and you can see all the Chinese who've just arrived.

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For the 15, 000 or so Chinese men who had come to build Canada's transcontinental railway and the many more that came thereafter, it became first prohibitively expensive and then impossible to send for their wives and children.

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China Railway Construction said in a filing that it isn't part of the Chinese consortium buying the equity stake.

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"Some professors are calling it the Chinese Penn Station Movement, " says Professor Li, referring to the destruction of New York's railway station in 1963, which spurred preservation.

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