We need to do better but I'm pretty certain we are not being competitively challenged by China's Hukou system & as for infrastructure and local government investing in crazy growth schemes it is pretty rampant in the US as well.
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China’s econ has fallen and is like @ 65% compared to the us economy which is doing just about the best of the G7 countries in unemployment and inflation
To be fair at least we can make buildings stand for more than just a year
That's so we can watch them spend trillions upgrading their infrastructure over decades only to bomb their shiny new infrastructure into oblivion whilst Ralph Wigginsing them (pointing our finger and going HA HAAA).