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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
China has only been introduced to wealth in the past few decades, so there is very little appreciation for engineering that allows structures to last 60 instead of 15 years.

Add to this political projects like belt&amp;road, that fund projects that the west hasn't done for REASONS.
gpt
They were one of the wealthiest nations in the world around the 1200s. They fucked it up for themselves.