>The Chinese government is much more autocratic yet it obviously does a much better job in building infrastructure I think that a big reason for this is that t

>The Chinese government is much more autocratic yet it obviously does a much better job in building infrastructure I think that a big reason for this is that the US already has a half-working solution in place. Some infrastructure already exists that fulfills this role. China, on the other hand, didn't have much of an alternative in place, thus it was easier to find the will to build it. We saw the same thing with internet connectivity and government services in Eastern Europe. Governments built much more modern infrastructures and offered more modern services because they weren't burdened by the past.