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Their ability to actually build things. The amount of construction projects I saw while visiting was insane, and they get it done fast.
Fast my ass. Once they finally start maybe... But it takes ages to lay the first stone. There's not enough people available to build everything they want to build. It's a serious issue
Ok, well maybe they have a long pipeline of projects ready to be built, but they are getting things built. I went with a friend who was there like 5 years prior and he said everything looked totally different since the last time he was there. I don't know about the planning process but even if that's slow that's still way better than most places where it also takes ages to get something started, takes ages to get something built, and they don't have enough projects going through the planning process in the first place.
They had a lot of practice with all their empty scam apartment buildings.
Are you thinking about China?
Oh ye. Sorry.
When your xenophobia is eager but bad at geography.
Pretty common unfortunately in America.
I still think about how Blizzard originally made their WoW expansion, Panderia, to include Samurai and sushi. And someone had to explain them the difference between China and Japan.
It's so stupid.
That's not even necessarily mixing the two up so much as failing to distinguish cultures within "Asia" in the first place. A lot of people think of the whole region as one place. Put some soy and garlic on something? You've got an "Asian" dish. Never mind that there are numerous regional culinary traditions within China alone.
See also: Africa.
There are people on the Web unable to distinguish between Asia as in "China, Japan, Kamboja, Vietnam ..." and Asia as in "Iran and Saudi Arabia".
I've never even seen the word Kamboja before this comment.
I forgot how it's usually written in English and used Google. Cambodia, Kampuchia.
Yes, but not to mention Asia as in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh! 1.5 billion people living on the Asian continent, but "Asian" in popular American usage seems to only refer to China/Korea/Japan, and maybe Southeast Asia to a slightly lesser extent.
Ye-es. And then SE Asia is not the same as CJK, and then Middle Asia is not the same as West Asia/Middle East, and then India in itself has Dravidic parts, and then ...
Though, returning to the example above with "Asian" dish, in Russia people usually refer to cuisine by country, not by continent. But may make a few diplomatic errors (possibly mistakes) this way, like saying that Armenians and Iranians drink Turkish coffee, etc.
There's a reason "USA doesn't know geography" is a worldwide joke
This has absolutely nothing to do with xenophobia. This was based on a documentary of chinese economic waste and the people that fall into poverty because of it.
Well can't fault honesty