> Also, a China Railway Group engineer told Changjiang Daily that Japan, Germany and the US were also competing against China, trialing their respective ultrafast maglev trains based on various models of the superconducting maglev technology.

Uh, we are? I don't know of any successful maglev projects ongoing in the United States.

And this is awful. Planes pollute so much [1] and the experience of flying is awful.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/trains-vs-planes-whats-the-real-cost-o...