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The US, outside of the military, has a failure to make policy, whereas China has very clear development policies. Why is that? The US is led mainly by lawyers
by redis_mlc 7y ago
The US, outside of the military, has a failure to make policy, whereas China has very clear development policies.
Why is that?
The US is led mainly by lawyers, where facts are debatable, whereas most of China's leaders are STEM graduates.
Thus China has constructed around 50 new cities and airports in the past couple of decades, while the US literally can't dig a tunnel from one side of Central Expressway in Mountain View or Palo Alto to the other.
The most egregious failure of US leadership is the corona virus crisis in hospitals. But you could say the same about infrastructure, or just about any other public policy.
- icebraining 7y agoWe've had a couple of engineers as PMs in my Southern EU country (one of them is now the Secretary General of the UN - he started his career as an assistant professor teaching systems theory and telecommunications signals), and I can assure you it's no panacea. Pouring concrete is easy and not by itself synonymous with good governance. And since you said "any other public policy", I have to say I'd easily trade 50 tunnels and airports for access to Wikipedia.
- giantDinosaur 7y agoAre you talking about the same China that understood the risk of disease so well it allowed wet markets to flourish in the most abject hygiene conditions possible? I suppose they perhaps lack virologists or similar in their 'STEM graduate', technocratic government. Or perhaps they just didn't care. This meme of China being ultra competent needs to die; they have 1.4 billion people, there's enough latent talent there that'll shine through despite the best attempts by the CCP to kill a lot of it.