I rode China’s superfast bullet train that could go from New York to Chicago in 4.5 hours — and it shows how far behind the US really is

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China has the largest high-speed railway in the world, with 15,500 miles of track and most major cities covered by the network. I recently took China’s fastest “G” train from Beijing to the northwestern city of Xi’an, which cuts an 11-hour journey …
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