How China helped build Indonesia’s high-speed railway

Everybody applauded when a silver-bodied high-speed prepare embellished with a flash of purple final month rolled slowly out of Tegalluar station in Bandung, Indonesia’s West Java province.

The spectators included Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. It was Nov. 16, and so they had been witnessing the operational trial of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed prepare, on the sidelines of a bilateral assembly following the G-20 Summit in Bali.