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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40124950
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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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In California’s defense, we’re getting there.
Slowly.
Many, many vested 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.
In the US we can thank the early railroad barrons owning congress.
At the time of the early railroad barons, China still had an Emperor and was ravaged by Opium addiction.
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.
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.
