Everyone applauded when a silver-bodied high-speed train decorated with a flash of red last month rolled slowly out of Tegalluar station in Bandung, Indonesia's West Java province.
The spectators included Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. It was Nov. 16, and they were witnessing the operational trial of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train, on the sidelines of a bilateral meeting following the G-20 Summit in Bali.
