Comment by _DeadFred_

Ah yes, the city built yesterday is nicer than the city built 100 years ago. And the point is?

China funded all that pretty infrastructure on massive local debt that the fees are not covering. Will be interesting to see how that works out long term.

Edit: I love China. I love the chinese people. I loved Shanghai of the 2010s. I've worked with a ton of amazing chinese developers in the Bay Area that were stranded after tiananmen, and I'm sad for their tragedy but they were definitely a boon to the USA. I don't think Americans are superior to Chinese in any way. I also don't think a new building/infrastructure being nicer than old buildings/infrastructure proves anything anyone who upgraded to a new car from an old one doesn't already know.