Don't get me wrong, I love the United States, but I wonder if there is too much bureaucracy these days for us to get a project like this done in a hurry. What do you think?

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A CRH train runs on the 350km/h Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway at sunset in Jiaxing, China, Dec. 18. China plans to double its high-speed railway network to over 13,000 kilometers by 2012.