The while the US talks a big game, China plays a big game.
The while the US talks a big game, China plays a big game.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40124950
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I have used the Chinese high speed rail and it's awesome. Better than flyingnand and so cheap. I am so jealous.
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In the US we can thank the early railroad barrons owning congress.
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At the time of the early railroad barons, China still had an Emperor and was ravaged by Opium addiction.
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Ravaged by opium addiction because the Europeans realized they could make huge profits by getting people addicted. Fun fact, when China decided they would ban opium Britain sent the war ships and bombed the fuck out of them and ripped entire cities away from China, put them under British rule, and gave all Europeans total immunity from Chinese law within those cities so they could be full blown hives of scum and villainy with official clearance by the crown.
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Hyperloop has been dead for years now, actually it was from the start, just nobody was actually thinking or they have other interests, like grab as much money out of it as possible.
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Hyperloop is an idiotic concept. The investment needed to build a network of functional hundreds, or thousands of miles long vacuum tunnels, and the maintenance needed, makes it unviable.
Much easier and cheaper to build high speed rail.
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Yeah that's infrastructure under capitalism. Explains the entire USA basically.
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Same with power generation/grid. The EU is finally realising that if they want everyone to go electric they are massively fuckt in terms of clean electricity generation and power distribution. Meanwhile we had china's power grid as a case study in uni because it's way ahead of ours.
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In California's defense, we're getting there.
Slowly.
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Many, many vedted interests have tried to stop, deflect, delay, refund or shape the project and work into whatever will be least used and successful. The auto industry and oil industry, now also the ev companies including Tesla have a huge stake in not having Americans experience how dependable, useful, quick, clean and pleasant HSR is.
Once you try it you can't go back to short and mid-range car and plane trips.
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I am from the United States and while I think that we used to lead the world, I have to acknowledge that China has us with our pants around our ankles. American exceptionalism is dead.
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American exceptionalism got us into this mess
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Wanna sneak peak of the US in 50 years? Look at the present day UK.
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USA isn't even talking a big game. It's just the usual racism, patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
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Doesn't China have questionable safety records?
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Dunno, but of the stuff I've heard of lately, the bridges that randomly collapse or planes that fall out of the sky because of design defects were American.
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Hongqi bridge (红旗大桥) collapse last month after been open for a few months? https://yewtu.be/05uD-gXJkI4
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Your whole world built by them
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No. They have a massive incentive to keep infrastructure working, whereas the US can just let bridges collapse and never even bother rebuilding them because there is no incentives. The primary source of questions are from Western news media asking "but at what cost?"
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Doesn't USA?
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