China’s been working on these trains for over a decade now, there’s nothing sudden about it. Also weird to think that what Japan did can’t be replicated, if you look at the picture of the actual Chinese maglev train it too has a large nose structure https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-fastest-maglev-train-intl-hnk/index.html
Ah, then I stand corrected. They should have used a real picture of the train for the article.