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Will China’s Infrastructure Plan Succeed?
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It’s hard to ignore some of the projects going on in China. One of the more impressive is a $200b high-speed rail network.
Efficient public transportation is a no-brainer for China. Combine rising energy costs with 1.3 billion citizens in need of transportation, and you have a socialist’s dream-project. If well-executed, it will provide superior transportation options and a lower cost of living for hundreds of millions.
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I can’t resist noting that America has spent nearly the same amount bailing out AIG ($170b), as China will on this huge rail project.
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It’s a sad fact that in the West, and in America particularly, public programs that are actually FOR the public are viewed as wasteful, outdated and smacking of communism.
I’m an Englishman living and working here in China and it IS communism at work but it’ll make life easier, simpler and better for the nation, for the people and for the climate.
When Americans (and the UK these days) are stuck in a smog-suffocated city, unable to afford the travel costs to get them to work and back and sick to death of being stuck in an expensive-to-run car for upwards of two hours a day, at least they’ll have the joy of knowing that they kept that communist stuff far away from THEIR country.
Some people would rather be right at any cost…