Obama Says China’s Infrastructure Puts the U.S. to Shame

[beijingwalker]

Obama Says China’s Infrastructure Puts the U.S. to Shame
BY ERIC PIANIN,
The Fiscal Times
With concern about economic competition from China very much on his mind, President Obama this week renewed his call for major new investments in U.S. infrastructure to keep pace with rival countries and keep the economic recovery on track.

“It makes no sense that we have a first class economy with a second class infrastructure,” Obama said on Wednesday during a speech to the Business Roundtable in Washington.

Obama got a close look at Chinese infrastructure handiwork when he visited China as part of his nine-day trip toattendthe Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation and G20summits last month.

Obama Says China’s Infrastructure Puts the U.S. to Shame | The Fiscal Times

 

[beijingwalker]

China used more concrete in 3 years than the US in 100 years

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

China used more concrete in 3 years than the US in 100 years

Well we don't actually use concrete much.
We don't make tall apartment buildings.

This would be an unusual sight in the US outside of maybe NYC.

..and they use glass or brick (it is 2 to 3 times stronger than concrete)

So we are not really a big concrete user.

 

[terranMarine]

handicap of head start Mr President, does it make sense now?

 

[beijingwalker]

Well we don't actually use concrete much.
We don't make tall apartment buildings.

We use concrete to build roads ,airports seaports and steel to build railways and skyscrapers

China's crude steel output at 823 mln tons in 2014 to half of global total

 

[Beast]

Obama Says China’s Infrastructure Puts the U.S. to Shame
BY ERIC PIANIN,
The Fiscal Times
With concern about economic competition from China very much on his mind, President Obama this week renewed his call for major new investments in U.S. infrastructure to keep pace with rival countries and keep the economic recovery on track.

“It makes no sense that we have a first class economy with a second class infrastructure,” Obama said on Wednesday during a speech to the Business Roundtable in Washington.

Obama got a close look at Chinese infrastructure handiwork when he visited China as part of his nine-day trip toattendthe Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation and G20summits last month.

Obama Says China’s Infrastructure Puts the U.S. to Shame | The Fiscal Times

US shall join AIIB bank and we can consider lending some money to build infrastruture. But first they must scrapped TPP

 

[C130]

maybe if we didn't spend nearly 600 billion on the DoD every year and on wars we could use that for infrastructure projects and mantience, lol

and I wouldn't brag about china's high consumption of concrete and steel, when it's more to keep the high growth going.

you know those ghost cities have a lot of concrete and steel in them, lol

and for instance these large concrete buildings that just seem more for show and glut then anything, like in this video of the Nepal earthquake shaking in China

 

[chou.wong]

Well we don't actually use concrete much.
We don't make tall apartment buildings.

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This would be an unusual sight in the US outside of maybe NYC.

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..and they use glass or brick mostly.

So we are not really a big cement user.

you have 0.3billion persons ,we have 1.4billion persons!to many montain are in china ,so we must live in limit area!we must build tall building

 

[TheNoob]

Well... this statement is illogical.
China has more population.
While the US have like the 1/5 of it.

Besides, these americans prefer to live in houses that can burn down easily <.<

 

[beijingwalker]

and I wouldn't brag about china's high consumption of concrete and steel, when it's more to keep the high growth going.

you know those ghost cities have a lot of concrete and steel in them, lol

You know nothing about those so called ghost cities

Dan Collins: Ghost Cities in China Disappearing

Well... this statement is illogical.
China has more population.
While the US have like the 1/5 of it.

Besides, these americans prefer to live in houses that can burn down easily <.<

We use very little concrete to build houses, most of them used on highways, railwayways, subways,seaports,airports..

 

[C130]

You know nothing about those so called ghost cities

Dan Collins: Ghost Cities in China Disappearing

We use very little concrete to build houses, most of them used on highways, railwayways, subways,seaports,airports..

only that they were empty for years and mostly still are.
China's real estate bubble - CBS News

 

[beijingwalker]

In China a new city is being built up in 6 months. That's why from the satellite they look like ghost cities.

Chinese skyscraper: 57 floors in 19 days (time-lapse video)

only that they were empty for years and mostly still are.
China's real estate bubble - CBS News

Finish watching this first, those Americans have lived in China for years, they are not come and go reporters and they know the general picture of what they are talking about.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Well... this statement is illogical.
China has more population.
While the US have like the 1/5 of it.

Besides, these americans prefer to live in houses that can burn down easily <.<

But they hold up to earthquakes
Deaths from U.S. Earthquakes: 1811-2014

Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths 1900-2014

 

[sicsheep]

But they hold up to earthquakes
Deaths from U.S. Earthquakes: 1811-2014

Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths 1900-2014

lol how do they do against hurricanes and tornadoes?

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

lol how do they do against hurricanes and tornadoes?

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

tornado deaths
1840: 317
1896: 255
1899: 117
1902: 114
1908: 143
1913: 103
1917: 101
1925: 695
1936: 216
1936: 203
1944: 100
1947: 181
1953: 116
1953: 114
2011: 162

3053 in total (in the last 100 years 1,888)

China had 68,000 killed in 2008 from a single earthquake.