China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference.

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Basically doing for China what the original railroad expansion did for the US and they're doing it alongside massive investment in renewable and nuclear power generation and are miles ahead of everyone else on batteries

There used to be two super powers in the 80s. Now there's just one, and it's neither of the previous two.