U.S. President Biden warned that the U.S. is lagging far behind China in infrastructure such as high-speed rail. If it does not compete, “China will eat our lunch.” US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg also said that the United States must strive to become a global leader in high-speed rail. China’s high-speed rail has long been ranked first in the world in a number of indicators, but a think tank in the United States has actually ranted against it, claiming that China’s high-speed rail is “backward and outdated.” As a result, it was ridiculed by foreign netizens on social media.
The Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, published an article stating that high-speed rail is already an “outdated” technology, “like electric typewriters, rotary telephones and steam locomotives.”
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The article claims that the high-speed rail was obsolete as early as 1958, because that year Boeing launched the 707 passenger plane, which was “twice as fast as today’s fastest train.” The high-speed rail was slower than the plane and was not convenient enough for cars, and it was better than both. expensive.
The article criticized former US President Barack Obama’s attempt to promote the construction of high-speed rail in the United States in 2009. It also claimed that China’s high-speed rail construction accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars in debt, while China did not stop building highways because of the high-speed rail. The article therefore believes that high-speed rail is redundant, and the United States vigorously builds highways.
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The “wonderful” article of the Cato Institute attracted a lot of ridicule on Twitter. Someone wrote, “This… or a stupid article is deliberately misleading.” Some people say, “The Cato Institute, you have done a lot of reliable research, but this is nonsense. You should ask people who have actually taken the high-speed rail. You can find someone from China, Japan or Europe.”
Some netizens posted photos of a series of 133 car crashes and 6 fatalities on the Texas Expressway in the U.S., bluntly saying “High-speed rail is much safer and more reliable than driving a car, especially in winter. People are forced to drive on dangerous roads just to increase oil. Profits from companies and car factories are very cruel.”
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Some people also pointed out that “High-speed rail is faster than driving. It is more convenient to take a plane. It also more effectively spreads the cost among travelers.” “The railway can directly reach the city center. Most airports are 30 to 90 minutes away from the city. It takes 1.5 to 2 hours more at the airport before the plane.”
Someone responded to the Cato Institute, saying that the high-speed rail was described as such a poor article by the article, “But Europe, Japan, and China are operating very well, while the Cato Institute calls itself a “think tank””, “China’s rise and hard investment in infrastructure It is closely related. With your attitude, it is no wonder that the United States has fallen behind.”
As of July 2020, the operating mileage of China Railway reached 141,400 kilometers, of which 36,000 kilometers were high-speed rail. The United States currently has only 700 kilometers of high-speed rail in the country, which is far shorter than Japan, which is more than 3,000 kilometers, France, which is more than 2,700 kilometers, and Germany, which is about 1,600 kilometers.
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