【Newsweek】Giant Pandas and the Infrastructure Bill

Chinese domestic airlines have been growing steadily. The contrast between Chinese progress and American paralysis has been growing greater and greater.Passengers wait for a flight at Daxing Airport in Beijing on February 8, 2021, ahead of Lunar New Year, which falls on February 12.As I watched the long, stale vaudeville-like performance over the infrastructure bill, I kept noticing the amazing steady progress of the China's government as it continued to build.While we debate, impeach and campaign for office, they build. The contrast between Chinese progress and American paralysis has been growing greater and greater. And it's a serious problem.As someone who loves the natural world—and has always loved the giant panda—I was delighted to discover that in the middle of our infrastructure babble, the Chinese had opened the huge, ultra-modern Chengdu Tianfu Airport. Chengdu is th ………………………………