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China built an economy that's like 50% based on bullshitting to your superiors about how much infrastructure you built.
They also overbuilt infrastructure and entire housing complexes sit empty. So is it both?
Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
And to be clear, they've built a lot of infrastructure, but it's often underbuilt. Eg. they'll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there's sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone's walking in poo water.
Southern and central China are drowning. Since June 18, the regions have suffered their worst bout of flooding in a decade, furthered by a category 4 typhoon that hit the mainland after sweeping through Taiwan Friday morning, local time.
Tofu dreg
So much both
At a micro level, theres a lot of low quality products. Things that look okay on their face, but fall apart with any minor inspection.
I wonder if that's deep down the problem for China, beyond products.
It's what happens when you build a culture around "saving face" rather than competence. And then kill 10% of the population, targeting the productive and educated.
Don't forget, the US has implemented some strong sanctions against China including restrictions on trade.
Imagine competing in a race but you have your friends holding back your competitor.
Sure, and China certainly has no restrictions on businesses from other other countries. No sirree. None. They're also renowned for their non-interventionist, market-based solutions that certainly don't favor Chinese interests.
America may be one of major assholes for trade wars, sanctions etc, but China are on whole different level. They have godlike amount of hypocrisy and being complete ass to everyone with their protectionism policies.
It's almost like if you respect basic human rights has a positive economic benefit....
We talking about Palestinian human rights? Or are those not humans?
Ironically both. Palestinians don't believe their neighbors should be allowed to continue living, so they engage in constant warfare. Now their neighbors don't want to give them free stuff anymore.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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