Chile launches new fast train service built by China. The train has 160km/h speed.

Not particularly, but it's important progress for a country with essentially zero inter-city trains running.

Such a pity too, the shape of the country just really seems to make so much sense for trains - just run a big north-south line and connect basically everything anyone would care about.

mph means absolutely nothing to people living outside the burger empire, you might as well be saying ferrets per hour