Seems like every week there's a "why does the west have to drop a billion bucks over a decade on X when Asia can do it for a cool ten mil in a year?" article on

Seems like every week there's a "why does the west have to drop a billion bucks over a decade on X when Asia can do it for a cool ten mil in a year?" article on the front page of HN. This is pretty well researched and written about stuff, at least on the govenrment and public works side of things.