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by unmole 1468 days ago
> Building high speed rail over their entire country in a few years

Ah, the high speed rail network to podunk provincial towns where nobody can actually afford the fares. Built by taking on insane levels of debt which will hobble China Railway for decades to come.

> shiny new hospitals in days during a pandemic

And yet keep imposing lockdowns while the rest of the world has limped back to normal. All the while pushing inferior vaccines and ineffective cures.

Do you understand how bad the healthcare system in China is? Even highly paid software engineers have to resort to smuggling medicines from India because of the absurd costs at home. I know because I personally helped my colleagues procure anti-cancer drugs.

> then ship the homeless to dorms

I think the preferred term is reeducation camps.

> just as they are modernizing Africa

By building white elephant projects and leaving them with unsustainable levels of debt. Do you see a pattern?