Anyone who even suggests that China is kicking our butt concerning infrastructure is insane!
They don’t need to beat us. They only need to beat India.
“Anyone who even suggests that China is kicking our butt concerning infrastructure is insane!”
You forgot to mention the 20,000 miles of freeway lanes they built just last year - meanwhile we build “bike-lanes”, “bridges to nowhere”, and “trains to nowhere”.
The Chinese do acknowledge, and I have seen myself, that their standards are lower and their infrastructure will fall apart at a faster rate than western infrastructure. I have stayed in nearly brand new high rise apartment buildings in China where I look out the window and on the ledge there are pieces of concrete lying on the ledges and windowsills where they have fallen off the building.
In 20 years, China will have to be rebuilt all over again. On the one hand, it is bad quality, but on the other hand, it is still better than what they had before. We built the transcontinental railroad the same way, speed before quality. Early riders could barley tolerate the bouncy ride, and as soon as it was finished, it started to be repaired into a smoother track.