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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]China also builds housing that is basically fictitious (fraud).  In order to support their real estate market, they build lots of big housing buildings that are never intended for people to live in.  They just fill up land, empty.  And keep the big banks afloat through shady loans.

Is that the infrastructure you're thinking of, OP?  [/quote]

No, but these
Record breaking single-span suspension bridge in Yunnan, China.
Beipanjiang Bridge in southwest China.
The world's largest steel truss suspension bridge across a canyon in China.
Etc...[/quote]

You don't just get to cherry-pick, PP.

[quote][b]Chinese Blame Failing Bridges On Corruption[/b]
August 29, 20124

[b]Eight bridges have collapsed around China since 2011.[/b] Here, government investigators examine a recently built entrance ramp that collapsed last week in the northeastern city of Harbin, killing three people....

When the Yangmingtan bridge opened in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin in November,[b] local officials hailed it as a grand achievement[/b].

The bridge stretched more than nine miles and cost nearly $300 million. [b]Construction was supposed to take three years, but workers finished in half that time.[/b]

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But early one morning last week, [b]an entrance ramp to the bridge collapsed[/b]. Four trucks on the ramp tumbled to the roadway below. Three people died and five were injured.

The government initially blamed the trucks, saying they were overloaded. But [b]infrastructure fails so often in China, most people assume the real culprit is government corruption[/b].
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Since 2011, [b]eight bridges have collapsed around the country, according to China's state-run media. The cases include one in April 2011, when a cable snapped on a suspension bridge in Western China's Xinjiang region, sending a chunk of roadway plunging onto a riverbank.[/b]

Two months later, a bridge in southern China's Fujian province collapsed, leaving one dead and 22 injured.

And in March this year, a bridge under construction in Central China's Hubei province snapped in half.
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"I will never remember those victims' names in this accident, and people won't remember it," Niu said. "[b]It will be buried by another accident.[/b]"[/quote]

https://www.npr.org/2012/08/29/160231137/chinese-blame-failed-infrastructure-on-corruption[/quote]

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