They opened their first dedicated high speed rail line in 2008

  • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    That was 1964, if this was a diagram from 1964 fine, but this is 2020 200km/h isn't high speed rail today, also 210km/h > 200km/h.

    My problem with this diagram is western countries that want their rail lines that are "technically" built for up to 200km/h operation but only ever run trains at 140km/h or lower categorised as high speed rail.

    It's the old liberal trick of re-categorising what something is by ignoring modern technology. Another good example of this is broadband speed in the US, where ISDN lines were for a long time classified as high speed broadband to make the FTC look like it was doing a good job.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      To be fair here a lot of Chinese high speed rail is also 200kph

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Rail_map_of_China_%28high_speed_highlighted%29_WP.svg

      It's also a boon to China to include it.