Fast Technology News on May 15, the White House issued an announcement yesterday that the Biden administration announced that it would increase tariffs on China's steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, critical minerals, solar cells, ships, cranes, medical supplies, etc., including for Chinese electric vehicles, tariffs were directly increased from 25% to 100%.
The announcement sparked intense attention, with a Twitter blogger posting a sarcastic post, writing:
USA: "China, please produce everything for us, so it's super cheap, we can all buy it"; China: "Okay, there's a whole bunch of cheap electric cars here"; United States: "How dare you sabotage our economy?" ”
In the comment area, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared and left a comment: China is awesome, people who haven't been there don't know at all, compare the high-speed rail there and here.
This is not the first time Musk has publicly praised China's high-speed rail, in 2022, he posted a public praise on Weibo, and last year he also said that China's high-speed rail ride experience is better than that of airplanes, and at the same time, he is "angry" about American high-speed rail.
The U.S. government has long been planning a high-speed rail project connecting California's two largest cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the first phase of the "first high-speed rail system" in the United States, with a project budget of more than $100 billion, with initial funding approved in 2008 and the first phase of construction starting in 2015.
So far, the entire project is still in its early stages, and subsequent funding has been allocated for environmental planning for the first phase of the project, which is far from complete on the 494-mile (795-kilometer) high-speed rail line, of which the Fresno River Viaduct began construction in the summer of 2015 and was completed in 2018, a three-year process.
Many people questioned whether it was necessary to spend a huge amount of money to build an elevated highway in such a section of the road where there was no obvious wetland, and Musk also reposted related posts to express his helplessness.