{"id":116371,"date":"2020-11-26T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-and-japan-race-to-dominate-future-of-high-speed-rail"},"modified":"2020-11-26T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:23:24","slug":"china-and-japan-race-to-dominate-future-of-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-and-japan-race-to-dominate-future-of-high-speed-rail","title":{"rendered":"China and Japan Race to Dominate Future of High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-and-japan-race-to-dominate-future-of-high-speed-rail.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultra-fast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains use powerful magnets to glide along charged tracks at super fast speeds made possible by the lack of friction. A handful of short distance and experimental maglev trains are already in operation, but Asia\u2019s two biggest economies are vying to develop what would be the world\u2019s first long-distance intercity lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultra-fast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential. Magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains use powerful magnets to glide along charged tracks at super fast speeds made possible by the lack of friction. A handful of short distance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}