Why is China so far ahead of the world in terms of high-speed trains?
China has built the largest high-speed rail network in the world, and some say that its trains are the fastest in the world as well. In fact, China’s HSR network is both larger and faster than any other country’s rail network, so why is this? What was it about China that made it possible to build such an extensive system of high-speed trains? And more importantly, what…