I mean, authoritarian countries with centrally run economies and cheap labor have pretty much always been more effective at building massive public work projects more cost effectively than western nations. The Three Gorges dam has about 20x the installed capacity of BC's Site C dam, but it only cost about 2.5x what Site C will cost.
As long as neoliberal policies dominate Western politics and as long we maintain health, labor, and safety standards, there's only so much we can emulate from China's methods. I'm all for crown corporations getting huge interest free loans to build zero emission generation (which is essentially what China is doing), but that's going to cost a lot of tax dollars.
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