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China has the advantage of not having to care about the citizens' desires in regards to be relocated to make the rail possible.
They also provide apartments to live in permanently for those displaced in the development.
Meanwhile, the US has not built high speed rail and has tent cities.
In the case of national infrastructure, China wins hands down.
Although it's kind of ridiculous to compare California with an entire country...
Honestly not that ridiculous of a comparison considering California's size and GDP, we could be doing a lot better