Overlooking the landscape of Naryn – credit, Pmelton87, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Posted on 04/09/2026 6:05:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Construction of a “transformational” new railway line linking China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will allow goods to transit from east to west across Eurasia a whole week faster.
On the way, it’s also predicted to have a transformational impact on the economy of Kyrgyzstan, one of the slowest developing countries on the continent.
Now, the “CKU” will give direct transit options for most of Central Asia while unlocking substantial natural resource opportunities among a depressed, mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan.
The trilateral agreement to build the 300-mile-long railway was signed on December 27th, 2024, and construction began the following year. $1.1 billion will be provided by China for the Chinese portion, and $573 million by Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for their respective portions. An additional $2.3 billion will be paid by a Chinese joint venture overseeing the project.
Overlooking the landscape of Naryn – credit, Pmelton87, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0.
90% of the Kyrgyzstan portion will run through the poor region of Naryn, 70% of which is mountains. To get through it, the CKU railway will pass over 50 bridges and through 29 tunnels. Already the country has 5,000 people employed on this impressive engineering project.
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As for the value of the railroad on a continental basis, existing transcontinental railway lines pass through Kazakhstan and Russia, and for the purpose of exporting between Europe and China, would require an extra week of transit time.
Instead, with a terminal in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, the CKU will link directly with trans-Caspian routes to Turkey and onto Europe.
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Rev. 9:16 KJV
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Makes it easier to move the army.
Will they allow livestock on the trains?
Graham Nash song for Crosby, Stills and Nash about a different country....
Marrakesh express.
Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call
Animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue
Colored cottons hang in the air
Charming cobras in the square
Striped djellebas we can wear at home
Well, let me hear ya now
Would you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express?
Would you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express?
They’re taking me to Marrakesh.
send immigrants 24/7
I think that was on their Judy Blue Eyes album.
Harmonies as sweet as warm Peach Brandy.
The Silk Road was the reason America was discovered. Europe wanted trade with China but wanted to stop having to pay the Islamic middleman. On the way to finding a Western route two big continents were in the way! The rest is history.
Let all the know-nothing Europe bashers whose myopia pushes America into isolation and economic disadvantage (repeat disadvantage), understand that they are driving the European market into deals with China. This railroad will make it all so much easier.
“...the CKU railway will pass over 50 bridges...”
What does PDJT have to save ‘bout dat?
Can we export some of those “pirates” from SoCal to raid these trains?
The article is pretty useless without a map.
A useful article that asks the question, Can the New Multimodal Route Become a Sustainable Corridor for Central Asia?
and a map.
https://timesca.com/can-the-new-multimodal-route-become-a-sustainable-corridor-for-central-asia/
Interesingly, the bottlenecks would be Russia to the north and Iran to the south. There is a very narrow corrider through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Would require transit across the Caspian Sea.
China is funding project all over the world. They a funding 49% of a canal in Cambodia which will provide direct sea access from Phonm Penn to the ocean via the Gulf of Thailand. Vietnam is not happy with it as it could effect the Mekong Delta watershed.
Really not good news— for certain. The purpose of the rail line is NOT trade. It is to upgrade the prior failed invasion of the Mongol hordes.. so that now they won’t have to come in on horse or trucks... but railcars full of the Peoples Liberation Army. Belt AND Road baby— that’s what is really meant by these deceptive deceitful people. Chi-Coms.
Who incidentally do not FUND a damn thing they usually try a trade swap, commodities and such. Just as they do in the Congo for metals.
They are not about anything but global dominance. Of the Han dynasty chinee! Yipee!
Probably it will be finished at least 5 years before California’s “train bound for nowhere”
h/t: Kenny Rogers
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