I know a lot of people compare the United States to China and are complete lack of high-speed rail but what a lot of people don't know about is something called The Hu Line and that approximately 93% of China's 1.3+ Billion people that live in the part of China.
Seems like a bit of a no-brainer to have HSR with population density that high.
Here's what these images look like superimposed on top of each other.
China won the trade war.
With state capitalism, free enterprise and engineering.
USA petrodollar empire is dying under neoliberal crony capitalist voodoo economics.
80% of the politburo are trained engineers.
Yup. The US is cooked.
Most of western China is pretty harsh. Mostly deserts and mountains. It makes sense to build where most people live.
Yeah, that's my understanding.