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Seriously? Author plots kilometers built absolute numbers for China and Italy onto the same graph?

Could someone politely inform said author that China is a little bit bigger than Italy.

The part about the US needing to wake up rings true though.

That's a good point, but I think the point the author was going for is that the U.S is comparable and much smaller countries in physical size are far surpassing them in absolute numbers.

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