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In the past few days, the leaders of the G7 countries have held a summit in Bavaria, Germany. The main discussion is how to deal with Russia and China, because they believe that Russia and China are challengers to the Western ruling order. The discussed countermeasures were simple and far-reaching. There were two measures to deal with Russia. One was to ban the import of Russian gold, and the other was to impose a maximum price limit on Russian oil exports. Haha, where is the free trade promised? The key is to harm others without benefiting oneself. Smashing one's own memorial arch will not harm Russia!
has only one policy to deal with China. It claims to raise US$600 billion in the next five years to deal with China. How to deal with China? Use US$600 billion to build infrastructure and "destroy" China's Belt and Road Initiative. To be honest, we welcome the United States to do this, but we are afraid that the United States will just talk and make false claims. Last year at the G7 summit, Biden proposed the "Plan to Build a Better World," claiming to build infrastructure around the world. It took a year and cost 6 million U.S. dollars. This amount of money was not enough to hold a birthday party for a wealthy American.
This time, we hope that the United States and the West will come true. After all, they have proposed plans with specific amounts, and they have also allocated them to specific countries. It looks like that. The United States said, I will contribute 200 billion US dollars, and the European Union said, I will contribute 300 billion EU, Japan said, I will contribute 50 billion US dollars, and Canada said, I will take care of the rest.
We all know that as a human being, we must maximize our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, and this is especially true as a country. To repair the earth, starting from Great Wall , China will be invincible. When it comes to infrastructure construction, China is the global infrastructure madman. We say it is second, but no one dares to say it is first. 14 of the world's 20 largest infrastructure companies are Chinese companies. This is mainly because the rankings are made by Westerners, which is quite unfair. If the Chinese were to do the ranking, it is estimated that all the top 20 infrastructure companies in the world are in China.
China’s infrastructure mania is so great that I really can’t figure out why the United States wants to challenge China in the field of infrastructure. Infrastructure construction is very expensive, but it doesn’t just have to be rich. This is why we welcome the United States and the West to really invest US$600 billion in global infrastructure construction, because this is giving money to Chinese infrastructure companies, which is simply a "living Lei Feng".
And according to Biden, these 600 billion US dollars are more than just investments in 600 billion US dollars in projects. They want to leverage US$40 trillion in global infrastructure projects. The cake is terrifyingly big. However, among the top 20 global infrastructure companies, 14 are in China, the remaining 6 are in Europe, and none are in the United States. In 2020, Chinese companies won US$2.3 billion in infrastructure contracts abroad funded by the World Bank, while American companies only received US$27 million in contracts, only 1% of China's. If this big cake is really built, wouldn't it add GDP to China?
According to the World Bank's 2020 forecast, global investment in infrastructure is expected to reach US$90 trillion from 2021 to 2030. This is undoubtedly a huge cake. But it is a pity that although this cake is big, it basically has nothing to do with the United States and the West, because they have already de-industrialized and and become post-modern. The infrastructure construction is very different from China.
We can compare the infrastructure gap between China’s infrastructure mania and Western developed countries. We don’t need to compare the G7 countries one by one. It’s too bullying. Let’s compare the three most powerful countries. Germany, Japan and the United States. These three countries are the most powerful in the G7. There should be no objection.
1. China VS Germany
Germany has always been regarded as a model of Western industry. The Germans are world-famous for their rigor and precision, just like German classical philosophy , which is a building that cannot be surpassed by the West. In China, Qingdao oil-coated paper in sewers has been rumored for decades. Germany should be number one in the West in terms of infrastructure construction like this, right?
Let’s compare the Branden Airport in the German capital Berlin with the Daxing Airport in Beijing.We do not bully others. We are both the capital city and an international airport, and they are all face-saving projects that represent the image of the country.
Branden Airport began site selection in 1990, when the two Germanys were reunified. It took 16 years until construction began in 2006. It will be completed in 2020, taking a total of 14 years. During these 14 years, many bizarre problems have occurred, including budget errors, bribery, wage arrears, firefighting errors, and many other routine problems. There were even attempts to murder the engineer because of corruption, but the murder was later attempted due to leaks.
The airport was repaired in 2013. It was not even halfway completed, but more than 75,000 problems had been discovered. In the end, it was just patchwork repairs that made it barely complete. After doing this, the budget was naturally seriously overrun, from the original plan of more than 2 billion euros to more than 8 billion euros, exceeding the budget by more than 5 billion. Even the German media themselves called it "the shame of Germany."
Just look at the comparison chart and you will see that the two airports are completely incomparable. Branden Airport has three terminals, with a total passenger throughput of 43 million. Daxing Airport has only one terminal, with an annual passenger throughput of up to 130 million. The appearance and design are completely overwhelming, not to mention the interior. .
Branden Airport took 14 years to build (actually, this is a nice way of saying it, because the T2 terminal was only completed this year and the T5 terminal is not yet known when it will be completed), let’s just call it 14 years. The construction of Beijing Daxing Airport began in 2014 and was officially put into operation in 2019, which only took a total of 5 years.
The total investment in Branden Airport is more than 8 billion euros, which may actually be more because the T5 terminal has not yet been built. The budget of Daxing Airport is 77 billion yuan. After completion, media reports are all 80 billion yuan, so we will calculate it as 80 billion yuan. The cost is actually not much different from Branden Airport. However, the passenger throughput is twice as high, and the technology content is far higher than that of Branden Airport.
2. China VS Japan
Japan is a country with a stronger manufacturing industry than Germany among major Western countries. It has always been known for its high quality and strong technology. Japan's infrastructure is also one of the few among developed countries. Let’s compare the subway projects built by China and Japan in the United States.
For the Boston subway global bidding, China defeated other countries to win the contract. When the subway provided by China started operating, Americans were shocked. They couldn't believe that there was such a beautiful and clean subway. Many Americans drove all the way to experience the Chinese subway with their families.
The subway in Washington, D.C., is provided by Japan. On the first day of operation, three trains derailed in Japan, giving Americans who came to experience it a train shock. As a result, 60% of Washington's subway lines were closed for inspection. Look, both China and Japan gave Americans a big surprise!
Japanese infrastructure not only competes with China for business in the United States, but also competes with China for business in many countries such as the United Kingdom, Brazil , Vietnam , and India. It provides far more favorable conditions than China. As a result, it cuts corners and produces products that are... A shoddy project.
The high-speed rail built for the British leaked on the first day it opened to traffic, giving passengers a shower; the road bridge built for Brazil collapsed just after it opened, killing 15 people; the road bridge built for Vietnam collapsed before it was completed. , and many people died.
As a result, Vietnam came to China again and asked China. China agreed, saying that the bridge built by Japan was not good and had to be demolished and rebuilt. The Vietnamese did not agree, so China asked the Vietnamese to sign an agreement and repair it for them. However, as soon as it was opened to traffic, the bridge collapsed. , and many people died. The Vietnamese still wanted to touch China, but Vietnam shut up when China presented the agreement.
3. China VS the United States
Compared with the United States in terms of infrastructure, I think China is really bullying Americans too much. Let’s not go into details, let’s just talk about high-speed rail. High-speed rail in China and the United States started at about the same time.
When Obama came to power in 2008, he was ambitious to build high-speed rail in the United States. He planned 13 lines and claimed to build 19,000 kilometers of high-speed rail in the United States. The first high-speed rail was chosen in California, from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley, with a total length of 800 kilometers, and billions of dollars were given to the California government.
However, it has been 14 years, and California has not completed even one kilometer of high-speed rail, which has wasted more than 5 billion US dollars. Even Trump , who has a background in infrastructure construction, denounced the California high-speed rail as an unfinished project of the century.
And what about China’s high-speed rail? It was also just starting out in 2008. In 2011, due to the Wenzhou train incident, it was sabotaged by reactionary forces at home and abroad. But today, China has built more than 43,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, accounting for 70% of the world's total. The quality is the best in the world, the cost is the lowest, the technological content is the highest in the world, and the accident rate is the lowest in the world.
Therefore, in order to build infrastructure, the United States, Germany and Japan must give in to China. China's initiative of One Belt and One Road and its global infrastructure construction are actually giving full play to its own strengths, absorbing China's excess production capacity, and at the same time helping developing countries develop. Moreover, once the road is built, Chinese products can be sold around the world more quickly. .
Originally, the United States did not engage in China or target China. The whole world did not know that China’s infrastructure was so powerful. Just like when Trump sanctioned Huawei's 5G, before Trump took action, leaders of many countries around the world didn't know that Huawei 's 5G was so awesome. As a result, Trump gave Huawei a huge blow as soon as he sanctioned it. advertisment.
If the United States and Western countries really spend 600 billion US dollars on infrastructure construction, then we in China will be very grateful, because it is a big cake of 40 trillion US dollars. It is estimated that at least half of this 40 trillion US dollars will fall into In the hands of China, there is no way that China’s infrastructure madman will live a good life!
If the United States is just trying to fool the whole world. In fact, it’s nothing. It’s like a huge advertisement for China’s infrastructure maniacs. With the endorsement of this advertisement, Chinese infrastructure companies will probably be reluctant to accept large orders overseas in the future. It is impossible for China's infrastructure madmen to become the crusher of developed countries and the accelerator of developing countries.
Today, the United States is doing everything possible to contain China. But unfortunately, it is all unreliable. The G7 summit plans to spend $600 billion to challenge China's infrastructure monster. It can only be said that the United States has exhausted its skills. It cannot win, scare, and deceive. It can only deceive itself and others.
As Chairman Mao said, make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again, fail again, until destruction - this is the logic of imperialism and all reactionaries in the world in treating the people's cause, and they will never violate this logic. This is a Marxist law. The US imperialists will continue to cause trouble as long as they die. The only thing we can do is to turn them from "troublemakers" to "living thunder fronts".
