James Fallows thinks that `the Chinese are coming!' TV spot below is non-chauvinistic, legitimate electoral play (a two minute
Gibbons-esque agit prop piece) - even though the facts it asserts are completely wrong. The Chinese government in fact put construction of high speed inter-city rail at the heart of their anti-recession strategy.
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| Chinese bullet trains - Wuhan to Guanzhou in 3 hours at 380 kmh |
As Fallows notes "The ad has the Chinese official saying that America collapsed because, in the midst of a recession, it relied on (a) government stimulus spending, (b) big changes in its health care systems, and (c) public intervention in major industries -- all of which of course, have been crucial parts of China's (successful) anti-recession policy."
