{"id":185879,"date":"2025-10-27T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185879"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:00:49","slug":"why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185879","title":{"rendered":"Why China can build so quickly and America can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Light rail. Bridges. Housing. Everything takes seemingly forever, if it even happens at all.\u00a0 Meanwhile, there\u2019s China. A country that builds much faster \u2014 high-speed trains, solar panels, electric cars, bridges, ports, drones \u2014 all churned out at breakneck speed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-gray-area\/459355\/china-us-infrastructure-building-housing-high-speed-rail\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Light rail. Bridges. Housing. Everything takes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant.jpg",1200,624,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant.jpg",1200,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant.jpg",1200,624,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185879-why-china-can-build-so-quickly-and-america-cant-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}