http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/21/more-on-why-china-terrifies-us Comments On: More on Why China Terrifies Us by Bethany Jean Clement en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by anon1256]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:52:50 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub…

Our standards are just too high.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/24/nyregi…

We're not like those third-world countries.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?Dis…

We're better than them.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?dis…

Not like those heathen Chinee.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/

Bonus Canadian engineering superiority:

http://matdl.org/failurecases/Bridge_Col…
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:20:45 -0800 The Stranger engineering and buildings never fail.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:10:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by treacle]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:44:02 -0800 The Stranger
Fnarf, I would put up US building/manufacturing standards over China's ANY day of the week. Comparing China's breakneck building (with today's technology) to ours in the Wild West is an absolute straw man.
Posted by sperifera]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:02:02 -0800 The Stranger
And remember: for every horror story about ersatz milk in China, there's one for mold taint in a Massachusetts drug factory; for every story about crappy railroad construction in China, there's a freeway bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:50 -0800 The Stranger
*Ha!
Posted by rob!]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:49:45 -0800 The Stranger