well, not so fast. so far China managed to build a lot of things in a lot of places, but increasingly they are facing a problem of population-generation mismatch, so they would need to build a lot of cross-country transit capacity, which is not cheap, not simple.
and that's also one of the reasons they still have so many coal fired plants close to population centers.
and we'll see how long Xi's luck lasts (which in practice means how long the benefits of the reforms will last, before the inevitable corruption of dictatorships eats it up)
also, tiny nitpicking, so far it seems China is just very authoritarian, but not totalitarian like North Korea.
> The Changji-Guquan +/-1,100kV project is a major technical step-up, making it the world’s highest DC voltage,” said Liu ZeHong, executive vice president of SGCC. The project is the first of its kind, but could be followed by many more crisscrossing Asia and the world. Already SGCC has plans for the construction of more ultra-high-voltage DC (UHVDC) lines both domestically and as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, a project that is aiming to increase Chinese-led infrastructure investment in more than 80 countries.
> SGCC president Liu Zhenya has dubbed UHVDC an “intercontinental ballistic missile”. It is a key part of his Global Energy Interconnection initiative,
Its amazing what you can achieve when the main conversation isn't "are all the scientists hoaxing us because they irrationally hate our precious fossil fuels?".
and that's also one of the reasons they still have so many coal fired plants close to population centers.
and we'll see how long Xi's luck lasts (which in practice means how long the benefits of the reforms will last, before the inevitable corruption of dictatorships eats it up)
also, tiny nitpicking, so far it seems China is just very authoritarian, but not totalitarian like North Korea.