Siemens and Alstom Form European Train Giant to Beat Chinese Competition Germany’s Siemens will combine its train unit with Alstom of France, showing how the threat from China is pushing the Continent together even as populist politics try to pull it apart. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:At Kyoto Animation, Women Were Central — and They Paid the Price in a Deadly FireU.K. Airline Bills Unruly Passenger $106,000 for ‘Dangerous Behavior’Your Friday BriefingAn Airline Told a Breastfeeding Woman to Cover Up. Social Media Weighed In.Jacob Zuma Withdraws from South Africa Anticorruption Commission3 Sentenced to Death for Killing Scandinavian Hikers in Morocco