A three-hundred foot section of a ramp leading to a 9.6-mile bridge over the Songhua River collapsed today, nine months after the bridge opened, the New York Times reports. It’s the sixth major bridge to collapse this year. Last year, a crash involving a brand-new high speed rail line cost the lives of 40 people. The heavily subsidized solar panel industry is meeting resistance both European and U.S. markets, thanks to the complaints of domestic heavily subsidized solar panel manufacturers. Oh, and the wife of highly placed government official was convicted of murder in a one-day trial.
This is the nation that Thomas Friedman and President Obama wish we were more like, and which Niall Ferguson says is taking over the world. But, apparently, not today.
