Lawmaker questions China`s offer to build UK high speed rail
(WorldNews Business)

LONDON (AP) - Allowing China`s state-run railway to build a high-speed rail line linking London with central and northern England would be an `extremely questionable` decision, a prominent British lawmaker said Saturday. Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative lawmaker who chairs the U.K. parliament`s influential Foreign Affairs Committee, told BBC radio that he also had doubts about the ability of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) to build the rail line in five years, given the vast differences between the two countries on issues such as planning applications, property rights and...