[GonzoGOP]

All joking aside, this shows the deep underlying cultural differences between the occidental and oriental worlds. Things like ethics in engineering, and building codes are taken for granted in the western world where they originated, but those who try to emulate the west through cheap mimicry only see them as impediments to making a buck, or a yuan in this case.

Beg to differ. Here in the Peoples Republic of Chicago we had a highway paved using slag rather than limestone as aggregate. Whole thing came apart the next winter. But the contractors (close friends of the Daley family) had already had their front company declared bankrupt. Couldn't' get the money back and they had far too strong of political connections to prosecute. It has nothing to do with Asian / Western and everything to do with Statist / Individualist.

[GOPJ]

Democrats - unions - communists - pretty much the same on corruption... Wouldn’t want to drive across a bride any of them had built...