Imagine a Brazil where you board a train in São Paulo and step off in Rio 105 minutes later. Imagine every coastal capital linked, from Porto Alegre to Belém. Imagine Brasília as the hub with 5 bullet train lines reaching across the country. Even Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon, on the grid. That is the map I see. 16,600 km of track. A real grid for a country of ~213 million people. The São Paulo to Rio train has been on paper since the 1980s. Almost 40 years of plans. Zero track in the ground. The drive between those two cities still takes 5 to 6 hours (depending on traffic). 50 million people live in that corridor. About the size of South Korea. China built 50,000 km of bullet trains in 17 years. Brazil built 0 in 40. At China's pace, the Brazilian network gets built in 20 years. At Brazil's pace, 50. The price tag is about $500 billion in today's dollars. Closer to $1 trillion by the time the last track is laid. Every dollar spent comes back as $2 to $3 in growth. That is $2 to $3 trillion added to Brazil's GDP. Land prices jump the moment the project becomes real. Cities along the route gain value 20 years before the train arrives. The corridor leads. The train follows. The biggest infrastructure project of the 21st century is not in China. It is in Brazil. It just has not been built yet.

Calling China Capitalist is the flat earth theory of economics.