Years ago I did some research on the capacity of dams. It turned out that the most recent dams, the biggest in the world, were all in the Soviet Union. Reason: their rivers are bigger than ours. I suspect that Chinese bridges are setting world records because they have huge rivers. However, the fact that they can build them does imply considerable competence on their part.
"Years ago I did some research on the capacity of dams. It turned out that the most recent dams, the biggest in the world, were all in the Soviet Union. Reason: their rivers are bigger than ours. I suspect that Chinese bridges are setting world records because they have huge rivers. However, the fact that they can build them does imply considerable competence on their part."
Exactly, I'm not saying we should have the highest bridges as we don't have a need for them. What I'm saying is just the fact that China has the economic power to accomplish these feats is evidence they are on the rise big time. Contrast that to what is going on in the US. What colossal structures are we building? Power plants?, nope we are shutting those down. Mines? nope again, shutting those down. Space program? well we are working on self esteem for the Muslims with that. What about that border fence? Any small group of farm hands could have built more fence in the same time frame.