{"id":168849,"date":"2025-08-15T03:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168849"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:16:44","slug":"as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168849","title":{"rendered":"As China\u2019s speedy maglev train breaks records, US ambitions go off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after China said its supercharged rail system has reached speeds of 600km\/h (373mph), US President Donald Trump seemingly pulled the plug on American rail progress.<br \/>\nIn a controversial move being challenged by the state of California, Trump cancelled US$4 billion in federal funding for its high-speed railway project&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3318627\/chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-rails?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after China said its supercharged rail system has reached speeds of 600km\/h (373mph),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168849-as-chinas-speedy-maglev-train-breaks-records-us-ambitions-go-off-the-rails-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}