[TFNA]

Have you been to urban China anytime after that 2017 article? The country is now as developed as anywhere else, indeed it feels like it is gradually overtaking other developed countries. The comparison to the Soviet Union feels ridiculous to anyone with a firsthand experience of the country.

[jurgenburgen]

The political push in the US to cling to legacy fossil fuel technologies feels to me more Soviet-like if anything.

[cpursley]

Not really, the Soviets pushed all sorts of new transportation and energy generation ideas, not to mention nuclear.