“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.