What two pictures, when compared, best capture the difference between Russia and China?

What two pictures, when compared, best capture the difference between Russia and China? 

You know that access to the high speed trains is one of the tools of social control used by the CCP right? If your social credit score is too low you aren't allowed on them and can only take the slow old trains or the bus. Your score can be powered for crimes, drug use, misconduct, or being a pest and not doing as you're told, maybe you complain about the treatment you or a family member recieved, or anything really. That's where some people say well if they're being punished they must have done something wrong right? If you've got nothing to hide why do you care? Etc. They said the same thing in Germany in 1933, then 35, 38 and then all of a sudden they came for you and there wasn't a thing you could do. But I would likely pretend it was all good if I lived in such a system, I doubt I'm a heroic resistance member at heart, I want the good things and would play along I'm sure. Human nature is what it is. No judgement society has rules we either live by them or get told to go elsewhere right. You are not accurate. Today’s Chinese high speed train is an improvement of a mixed technologies from Siemens(German), Bombardier(Canadian now French Alstom), Kawasaki(Japanese) and Alstom (French). You don’t want to put all eggs in one basket. Hit was never a simple copy. It is always technology transfer for market, and then continuous improvement of the transferred technology.

This is a platform at the Leningradski Railway Station in Moscow. The two German-manufactured Siemens “high-speed” trains travel at an average speed of 200 km/h, reaching maximum permitted speed of 240 km/h.

There are only two such trains in Russia connecting Moscow with Saint Petersburg (650 km) and Nizhnii Novgorod (440 km). The rest of the trains are Russian-made and look like the one on the left.

Note, that unlike in the US, trains remain the main mode of distance transportation for passengers in Russia.

By contrast, the 1,318-kilometre Beijing - Shanghai high-speed train travels at a continuous speed of 350 km/h. Although the distance is twice as long as between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, it takes less time to travel between the two cities. It is the fastest scheduled train in the world.

All the trains are China-manufactured.

The total length of high-speed rail links is 35,000. Since technically, there are no high-speed tracks in Russia, no comparison can be drawn. However, you can compare with Russia’s grand total 43,700 km of electrified rail tracks.

This is the mansion of Mr. Yakunin, the former head of Russian Railways who failed to build a single mile of high-speed rail tracks. It was not enough to keep him in Russia. Mr. Yakunin lives in Germany now. His son, a British citizen, lives in London.

By contrast, Liu Zhijun, the former head of the Chinese railway who designed the country's high-speed railway system, lives in jail because of corruption.

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