What the heck is up with steel and China?

Croyance,

(RE: If its good enough for them, why not for the world?) Governments do not tolerate competition outside of their little circles of friends ;)
 
As an aside; The Chinese Secret Service, by Richard Deacon (1974 Tarplinger Publishing Co., Inc, New York) might be worth reading to anyone interested in the character and mechanizations of the Chinese government. The Chinese secret service is the oldest organized secret service in the world. While the cornerstone is Sun Tzu's texts in The Principles of War, they have not ceased to develope it into one of the most effective organizations of it's kind.
 
Chinese culture is markedly different from the hodge podge of the CCCP. Most far eastern cultures have similar charactaristics of self discipline and frugality whether it be instilled or out of necessity. And even apart from the political doctrines of communism they tend to have closer family and communial attitudes.

Add their familiarity to basic agriculture, hard labor, menial manual work with little of the luxuries of western living - and contrast that with our current mainstream push-button culture. Imagine most people here suddenly having to stand in long lines for potable water, rationed food, long power failures and breakdowns in sanitation.
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That's a very important point. They will tolerate things that we won't. They are used to things we wouldn't tolerate. They understand self-sacrifice for the greater good. Few Americans do these days. This is very important in war. And when it comes to patience, they are ... how to say this? I can't even say "miles ahead" or "light years ahead"..

They are in another WORLD when it comes to patience. They will wait 20 or 30 years to take us on if they need to. Americans can't even fathom planning a defense that far out, much less an offensive war.

During my first trip there I watched a shopkeeper install a pipe of some kind. It ran from the back of the shop to the front, then along the front step to his neighboring shop, and in. Don't know if it was gas, water, or electrical. The floor of the shop was concrete covered in tile. He cut a channel for the pipe, laid it in, then cemented over it. Sloppy looking, but functional. It took him several weeks. He used a hammer and chisel to cut the channel in the cement floor. No power tools, even though a shop that sold power tools was just a few doors down. (Those tools were often demonstrated on the sidewalk. I mean concrete cutting tools!)


Most Americans would do without (whatever the pipe was accomplishing) before they'd cut a 30 foot channel in solid concrete with a hand chisel.

(Here's the row of shops.)
 
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