Green Maned Lion
Engineer
Easy. Unlike the Soviets and Us, the Chinese understand the difference between talking and doing. We will sit around and debate things, and after the debate, one side will reluctantly agree to a study. Then when that comes out we scream and debate and commission a study to study the validity of the study. And then that study comes out saying the previous study was valid (duh) when that study was made, but its taken us two years to do these studies and it may not be valid anymore.What I'd want to know is HOW the Chinese have been able to build this system so quickly.
And then people cut funding, and the study goes bankrupt. And then we sit around talking about death panels for the study, in case the text gets old and might want to go belly up, and whether it is moral to have death panels for text. And so on.
It sounds like siliness, but with a bit less levity, that's how we work. In China, the bigwigs say we are going to build a rail line between X and Y. Mountains, communities, rivers, and lakes are crossed, tunneled, or eliminated entirely with less nonsensical discussion than it takes us to create an environmental study on the effect building a bridge would have on bluegreengrass algae in one of the lakes they are traversing.