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Made in China: 37 Bridges collapsed in 5 years
YouTube ^ | September 4, 2020 | China Observer

Posted on 06/04/2021 4:04:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Many people think that "made in china" stands for inferior quality, so let's dig deeper for the causes.

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, a total of 37 bridges collapsed in China, including 13 bridges under construction, which killed 182 people and injured 177, an average of 7.4 "deadly bridges" per year.

In 2008, it was found that many infants were suffering from kidney stones after consuming Sanlu milk powder, which was found to contain melamine and cyanuric acid. According to china’s Ministry of Health, "By the end of December 2008, a cumulative total of 296,000 children with kidney stones caused by consumption of Sanlu milk powder had been reported nationwide, and 52,898 were hospitalized and treated. The Sanlu incident caused an international outcry and 27 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy, immediately announced a ban on the import of Chinese dairy products and related products.

Ancient buildings are strong and can last long, but nowadays in China buildings are like tofu. Why?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: ccp; china
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Made in China: 37 Bridges collapsed in 5 years
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1 posted on 06/04/2021 4:04:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Suggestions of a sort of remake, "Bridge Under the River Kwai", is an idea that *may* lead to a spit take.

2 posted on 06/04/2021 4:05:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Their planes are every bit as good.


3 posted on 06/04/2021 4:08:01 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SunkenCiv

Not good, but considering that they’re building blue water navel vessels at 5 times our rate, along with civilian programs at many times our rate (we’re 40 years into the Second Avenue Subway line, for example...they take 3 years to build a line, 10 years to complete a city)...they can afford a few mistakes.


4 posted on 06/04/2021 4:08:35 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I hope the bridges don’t keep collapsing, they will need all of the bridges they have for the Chinese people to hang the GD commies from.


5 posted on 06/04/2021 4:08:45 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SunkenCiv

I am still waiting for that tall building recently evacuated for wobbling to collapse. Also, the Three Gorges Dam, which has moved but so far held.


6 posted on 06/04/2021 4:09:04 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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This one doesn’t count, it’s just a stupid idea from the outset. Wind/Windex hashtag:

China: Man left dangling from bridge after glass breaks
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57058247


7 posted on 06/04/2021 4:09:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“...nowadays in China buildings are like tofu. Why?”

Because to godless communists, life is cheap.


8 posted on 06/04/2021 4:10:00 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: SunkenCiv

From 2014

Troubled welds on the Bay Bridge: How a Chinese builder’s flaws left structural doubts and cost taxpayers

https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/bay-bridge/article2600743.html


9 posted on 06/04/2021 4:11:26 PM PDT by DFG
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To: Reno89519

They conducted a satellite killer “test” that made 10,000s of space junk objects, increasing the amount of space junk by 40%. “china satellite destruction test 2013”


10 posted on 06/04/2021 4:11:40 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s a feature?


11 posted on 06/04/2021 4:11:54 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: SunkenCiv
They must hire American engineering firms...like the one who built the I 35 Minneapolis bridge.


12 posted on 06/04/2021 4:17:23 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SunkenCiv

You can’t build a decent bridge when the steel you use is crap.


13 posted on 06/04/2021 4:23:39 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: SunkenCiv

If only the Chinese didn’t build their bridges from Sanlu milk powder which is high in melamine and cyanuric acid.


14 posted on 06/04/2021 4:31:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: SunkenCiv

The obvious solution is to hire Chinese companies for biden’s inflastructure plojects


15 posted on 06/04/2021 4:32:48 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: SunkenCiv

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16 posted on 06/04/2021 4:43:00 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: petitfour

The engineers grew up thinking Transformers was a documentary.


17 posted on 06/04/2021 4:51:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Seruzawa

Except they have trouble building jet engines.


18 posted on 06/04/2021 5:01:31 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: SunkenCiv

SumTingWong


19 posted on 06/04/2021 5:25:41 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Bonemaker
Or, more recently with a much more politically correct company:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/engineers-failed-recognize-danger-fiu-bridge-inspection-hours/story?id=63657158

Snip..."The bridge was previously touted as an "engineering fear come to life" because it was built using a technique known as Accelerated Bridge Construction."

20 posted on 06/04/2021 5:32:26 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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