Why California can’t compare with China on high-speed rail

The recent NBA-China dispute brought some of the obvious free speech, political and economic differences between the two countries to the forefront. These differences are why it is so odd that some advocates of high-speed rail wistfully cite China’s high-speed rail system as a possible template for trains in California and the United States.
“You go to China, they have trains that go 300 miles an hour. We have trains that go ‘chug, chug, chug.’ And then they have to stop