I discovered this time-lapse video at zerohedge.com of a fifteen-story hotel being built in a few days in Changsha, a city in south-central China.
While watching, I thought of all that China has accomplished in more than two-thousand years that no other country or civilization has achieved.
There’s the amazing miracle the world has witnessed since the early 1980s as China rebuilt and reinvented itself from a medieval kingdom to a modern nation with the only maglev line in the world.
It is obvious that the Chinese don’t give up easily once they start something.
After all, the Chinese spent more than two thousand years building the Great Wall and about a thousand years building the Grand Canal.
The largest palace on the earth, the Forbidden City, is in Beijing and was built more than five hundred years ago.
The first emperor of China had a tomb and a Terra Cotta army built that makes the pyramids of Egypt seem insignificant.
Then there was the great fleet commanded by Admiral Zheng He during the Ming Dynasty.
In recent years, the Chinese announced they are going to build a space station, since the West won’t share theirs with China.
China has also said they are planning to build a colony on the moon, mine for rare earth metals and send a Chinese expedition to Mars within a few decades.
The Chinese recently proposed building a bullet train from Beijing to London while building thousands of kilometers of rail for bullet trains in China. America doesn’t have one bullet train yet.
Does anyone doubt the Chinese won’t accomplish these tasks once they have announced the goals?
No wonder the Western democracies want China to have a Western style democratic government.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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