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Meanwhile China has built 42,000km (26,100 miles) of high speed rail.

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/high-speed/rai...

US is now cursed by their own success. Eisenhower jump started the highway to connect all of US as the largest transport infrastructure project. We have been riding the success of that for a massive economy. We are on the plateauing side of that S curve.

cursed because we spent a ton of money and got into debt with trillions spent for wars without much to show.

Now we don’t have to money, nor the will to invest in the next S curve infrastructure project.

Meanwhile China is pumping out infrastructure at speed of thought.

parent nojvek 2 years ago

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