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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: maceng2 who wrote (192021)9/21/2022 4:41:56 AM
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Re <<I have been reading that the Bay Bridge in California, on needing replacement, was build and floated over from China>>

... yes, there was drama in that, that

(1) Circa 2011 China supplied the bridge, and USA provided the labour for installation, akin to what had since happened in solar energy rollout Message 27457276

(2) At the time I noted the win-win Message 27483592

(3) Happy happy all around on delivery day, five months early Message 27485381

(4) Strangely there were folks recommending to both USA and Africa to say "no" to China Message 30899162

(5) ... and when the bridge was later found to be sub-par, the usual came out quickly and predictably to assign blame Message 32094781

... ostensibly because China quality an issue
media.sacbee.com
Bay Bridge’s troubled China connection
How Caltrans’ choice of an inexperienced company left structural doubts and cost taxpayers
... turned out the issue was all-USA bolts and in-situ works, and the entire episode was buried deeper than deep structuremag.org in Engineering literature without attribution to national origin

In the meantime, undeniably, yes, Team China likes to build bridges rather than destroying them

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