I dont think the comparison with China is fair. A big chunk of that $64b is due to permitting and land acquisition costs; China's solution when building the Thr

I dont think the comparison with China is fair. A big chunk of that $64b is due to permitting and land acquisition costs; China's solution when building the Three Gorges Dam was to forcibly relocate over a million people. Totalitarian states have options that are not available to a functioning democracy when it comes to constructing huge infrastructure projects.