Chinese High-Speed Train Breaks World Record

After a minute and forty seconds, the action begins...

The technological beast (a silver serpent) rips through reality. The air all around it is greatly disturbed. Something black shoots up. The train is already gone. The Chinese are racing toward the future. Nothing can stop them.

A CRH380A high-speed train is seen at the Bengbu South Station of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, Bengbu, East China's Anhui Province, Dec 3, 2010. China's high-speed train CRH380A broke the world record for unmodified commercial use on Friday during trial service with a speed of 486.1 kms per hour

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Charles Mudede

Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s senior staff writer, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. Mudede collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. He has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Tank Magazine, e-flux, LA Weekly, and C Theory.

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