China builds infrastructure crappy from the get-go. the US builds good infrastructure but allows it to turn to crap because our “leaders” decide that “infrastructure” means plopping apartments into areas zoned for single-family houses because they’d rather people were packed into high density dependency than anything resembling independence. Example:

Kayaker’s photos show crack in closed I-40 bridge in 2016

A crack? Well that sounds a little worrying. A crack can be anything from cosmetic to potentially damaging. Let’s hope that it’s not too…

Nope.

That’s not a crack. That’s a COMPLETELY BROKEN STRUCTURAL ELEMENT.