"With China’s economy already 70 percent of the size of America’s, it is forecast to become the world’s largest in seven years’ time. It makes no secret of its ambition to power ahead, with the Communist Party having announced a mega infrastructure scheme intended to double its economy by 2035, by constructing hundreds of new airports and a high-speed rail network spanning 200,000km". Australia is now paying the price economically for its hostility to China and slavish loyalty to the US — RT Op-ed
And, by the way, what in the name of The Good Lord, will all this construction do for carbon emissions and what the hell do alarmists think will happen once this is completed? Mr Xi will sit back quietly and smile and say. "no more activity - we are gunna save ze world now"? Nothing makes sense any more where we are content to give China and India a free kick into the future while we go back to the dark ages! Amazing. Simply amazing. (And the Ruskies, with the largest land mass, are giving us the two-finger salute!)
