But, they have a gazillion-strong nominal GDP, majestic standards of living, etc, and they could magically generate 500 new bridges like this one if they wanted, it doesn't matter. They are always the best.
But, they are DeMoCrAcY and have FrEedOm, so they must follow all the rights of "voting", procedures, and environmental studies, first, so it will take some time. It doesn't matter that the indirect economic damage is $15 million per day and 8000 jobs.
That's why they also didn't renew this bridge in 50 years. And this is why they can't clear out this wreckage in 50 days already. Because this is true infrastructure, not the paper one like in Chyna, it is harder to replace.
No, let's stop joking, realistically, imagine this humiliation happening in China, you would have those "intellectuals" at Brookings, and Hoover, already using it as an example of a corrupt state and inefficient regime, and those double-digit IQ channels like Serpentza making a dozen YouTube videos with brain-dead thumbnails.
Whereas China would have already removed the wreckage in 48 hours and started building a new bridge in a week, built it by 2025 probably, and paid it hundreds of times cheaper, due to way more developed construction and industrial sectors.
Or China simply wouldn't have allowed that ancient kind of bridge to operate for 50 years, in the first place and would've renovated it already 20 times by now (or enforced it enough so it wouldn't collapse from one ship colliding with it, as it is one of the most important national bridges).
