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      Now I’m confused, what do you mean? I never said they didn’t have a great high speed rail network. I think they’ve done a great job and I’ve got no problem acknowledging that. I was just poking fun at the implication of the meme.

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        Well, China, a participatory democracy with a 95 percent approval rating according to a Harvard study, is in the meme building high speed rail, and you’re claiming you have to be an authoritarian dictatorship to build high speed rail?

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          Oh right I see what you mean. If you pretend China is a democracy my point is automatically disproven, that is true.

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            Why would I pretend China is a democracy when it empirically is according to any useful measure?

            High government approval

            Bottom up representation

            Policies benefit the masses

            Wide range of public opinion represented in government