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You will note I said "at least" rather than "at most" or "about" ;-) ... we're all familiar with the phrase I believe

then in Deepseek like fashion China comes along and does it for 1/10th the cost and time.

In the same time the UK has been arguing over a third runway at its biggest airport, China has built over 100 new airports (20 years).

China also has an order of magnitude more land available, and a fascist government. Arguing over squeezing a new runway into a built-up area is a good thing.

I seem to remember that in socialist Eastern Europe it was only always 15 years away ;)