This comprehensive review paper explores the impacts of China's leading position in developing high-speed trains compared to the US and UK. The study uses multiple research papers to present insights into the development of high-speed trains across Japan, France, Germany, and China as a role model and to draw lessons for countries that follow. The main findings have suggested that government support contributed significantly to the development of these countries’ high-speed train networks. But in contrast, politics in Britain and the United States were divided and inconsistent, making the development of this transport industry problematic, overdelays, and uneconomical
