"While the United States is busy talking about making itself “great again” by demonizing immigrants and trans people while it continues to decline as a world power, Europe and China are expanding their forward-looking systems of high-quality transportation to position their regions to challenge American power, and prosper in the coming century."
More of that objective and quality journalism. Ignoring the grammatical mistakes, why throw in a silly quip like that? Especially considering that europe and china aren't too fond of "immigrants" or trans people.
You actually raise a good point, for China at least. I would argue that the EU is, generally, more progressive than the US when it comes to immigrants and trans folks.
Not a fair comparison. Train is more suited for China since car ownership per capita is lower. Between cars and planes in the US, it’s hard for trains to compete. High car ownership rates in China would be bad for the environment given the large population. So, nice cars in the US, nice trains in China
It’s a fair comparison. Cars are about 3X slower than bullet trains, even when there is no traffic. If SF to LA had a bullet train, it would take less than 2 hr instead of 6 hours. That’s huge difference even if you don’t count for return trip. More cars per capita is due to lack of such train network in first place. If you go to places like Switzerland which is pretty sparse, trains are defacto way to travel even when people could easily buy car if they wanted to. The country heavily invested in public transit resulting in lower cars per capita.
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More of that objective and quality journalism. Ignoring the grammatical mistakes, why throw in a silly quip like that? Especially considering that europe and china aren't too fond of "immigrants" or trans people.
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