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Can you please elaborate on the Chinese advantage?

• dangus 2y ago
  The network is massive and the average and top speeds are very fast. China has more high speed rail than the rest of the world combined.
  • elpalek 2y ago
    China's land area is approximately 25 times of Japan, def has a bigger network. But the top speed is comparable in current generations[1] except the Maglev. 1. https://www.railway-technology.com/features/the-10-fastest-high-speed-trains-in-the-world/?cf-view https://www.railway-technology.com/features/the-10-fastest-h...
    • dangus 2y ago
      Comparable and essentially identical for sure, but 30 km/hr slower is slower.
  • tirant 2y ago
    Compared to their size, Spain and Japan have a largest high speed network than China. And tickets, specially in Spain, are very cheap.
    • dangus 2y ago
      I would think that the vast amount of central/Western land in China that is sparsely populated might skew this statistic quite a bit, where Spain and Japan don't have that at the same scale.