Friday Funny: The Onion Blasts U.S. for Slow Trains

The satirical news site The Onion has imagined a world where China and the United States are competing over which country can operate the slowest, least dependable train systems.

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July 15, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


A high-speed rail is blurred as it passes a modern skyline in China.

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“Addressing the National People’s Congress about the pressing need to drastically lower standards, President Xi Jinping worried Thursday that the United States was outpacing China on poorly functioning low-speed trains,” reads a totally made up, fake news article by The Onion.

Still, like most articles by The Onion related to planning, the satire bites because of how closely the article hits the mark.

“China must do worse as a country,” reads a totally fabricated statesmen by President Xi Jinping in the source article, which you can read at the link below.

Thursday, July 14, 2022 in The Onion

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