Posted on 11/24/2011 5:38:27 PM PST by Hojczyk
This event in and of itself really isn't funny at all (although thankfully nobody was hurt), but, given President Obama's relentless penchant for heralding China as the world leader in infrastructure--and constantly admonishing us that we need to spend and grow our goverenment and 'invest' more taxpayer money in 'projects of the future' even more--I must admit... I'm having a rather hearty laugh at the President's expense right now.
Substandard construction work was blamed Thursday after wind blew parts of the roof off a $2.8 billion terminal at the world's second-busiest airport.
One of the architects behind Beijing Terminal 3, which opened in time for the 2008 Olympics, told the Associated Press that inadequate materials or installation — not design flaws — were to blame for Tuesday's structural failure.
The airport is the result of a frenetic Chinese building boom that has produced numerous architectural marvels, though some of the iconic new projects have been hit by quality and safety problems.
"Though I stood pretty far away, I could see a part of the roof was torn open. The white foam composite was everywhere, even on the runway," a passenger surnamed Li told state newspaper China Daily, which had pictures of the damage.
Whew, that was a knee-slapper. Our President really needs to get over his "we should be more like China" kick. The CCP is all about keeping up appearances, and they don't care how much deception they have to use to do it. Much of China's infrastructure, just like pretty much everything the CCP organizes, is a farce--I've heard first-hand accounts of the many facades that were put over buildings before the 2008 Olympics, and the government treats its billion people like a bunch of sheep. Not to mention, all their subsidizing and central planning is going to catch up with them eventually; their upcoming financial problems are going to make the United States' fiscal fiasco look amateurish.
You can be sure that, when it does fall apart, the Chinese leadership will be gone with the goods.
Unless the our Messiah, The One, the one we've been waiting for gets a second term, then all bets are off!
I don’t know if the design or the materials were inferior. I think there’s a reason we don’t make the roofs of American airport terminals out of Styrofoam, however....
and how much foreign aid money does the US give to China??
and why??
BEIJING | Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:47am EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China’s executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
The rare glimpse into the ranks of China’s executioners appeared in the Beijing Evening News newspaper Monday.
Hu, a veteran judicial police officer, described the routine of shooting prisoners convicted of murder and other capital crimes in China, which rights groups say carries out more judicial killings each year than anywhere else in the world.
“In fact, it’s not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that’s that,” Hu told the newspaper.
Most prisoners taken for execution are so terrified they collapse on the ground and cannot stand, Hu said. The exception was an ex-soldier convicted of homicide, he said.
“At the time of execution, the criminals kneel on the ground, but this former soldier actually stood up and ran forward. The result was a moving target that was taken down,” said Hu, himself a former soldier who has worked as a police officer for 19 years.
“These people all deserved what they got for their crimes.”
Something else is falling in China, home values are down 20% to 40%. Realtors are going out of business. We sold our apartment there last year. Wild profit. Family said we were crazy to sell then. We, however, had the crystal ball of having seen the same pattern happen in the U.S.
China like Japan before them will overcome their QC problems.
We had best be ready.
Not so long as the nation is a fascist state where much of the industry is a SOE or something quite close to one.
I'm no fan of "Chinese infrastructure" -- or what passes for it -- but what do you expect the architect to say, "Yeah, I knew I should have spec'd more fasteners...oh well!"
Oh, I don't know. China's more like Russia, and Russia's never overcome theirs.
No no no you’re seeing this all wrong! That’s not failure - that’s future work for Chinese construction workers! Just like when Khrushchev had to point out how inferior our highly-automated factories were, in contrast to Russian ones that created many more jobs!
In fact, shouldn’t government be looking at ways to make things fail sooner, so as to put more people to work?
Thanks. I don’t usually watch a whole video at a recommended link but I watched all of that one.
These cities they featured are in areas outside the main population centers. It looks from the report that people have invested in these properties and their investments will be lost.
I spent a lot of time working in China during the boom, China IS a facade, crappy construction covered over with a gleaming coat of fine plaster. It's all about appearance, no substance, must be a leftest thing. Wanna $25 dollar copy Rolex ? ... or would you rather know what time it was !
...given [Zero]'s relentless penchant for heralding China as the world leader in infrastructure... I'm having a rather hearty laugh at the President's expense right now. Substandard construction work was blamed Thursday after wind blew parts of the roof off a $2.8 billion terminal at the world's second-busiest airport.sidebars:
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