Ok, fair enough. I have been to mainland China as well, and the infrastructure there is equally impressive. Whether it's HK or Beijing, there is some fundamental difference between them and the US and other Western countries that seems to make it possible to build public infrastructure there but not here.

We need to figure out what it is and fix it, because whatever the US is doing it's not working compared to China and HK. I live in the capital of the supposedly most powerful country in the world and the basic mechanics of getting from point A to point B are an embarrassment.

Look at the difference between these political statements. One is a tangible object: one of the longest bridges in the world that people could actually use to do something faster than they did before.

The "political statement" from western leaders is a quote in an article in a journal that only policy wonks read. I wonder which will have more impact?