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Wang: Zero passengers have ridden California High Speed Rail 15 years post-approval
“Not far away is the California High Speed Rail Project meant to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. It's been more than 15 years since voters approved this referendum to build this train. How many people have taken this train? Precisely zero.”
Wang: Xi Jinping promoted aerospace and defense leaders to govern Chinese provinces
“What Xi Jinping did was that he elevated a lot of the leaders of China's military industrial complex, the people who ran China's crewed space missions, the people who ran China's biggest weapons companies, and he elevated them to be provincial party secretarie…”
Wang: China controls 90% of the global solar supply chain
“On the other hand, China owns pretty much 90% of this industry, everything from the polysilicon processing down to module assembly.”
Wang: 35 of 40 global nuclear plants under construction are in China
“There's something like something like 40 nuclear plants under construction in the world, and 35 of them are in China right now.”
Wang: Cancer Rates Near Chinese Rare Earth Facilities Are Extremely High
“If we take a look at some of the rare earth processing facilities around China, the cancer rates are off the charts.”
Wang: Silicon Valley is the only place home to trillion-dollar companies
“What Silicon Valley does have, what we have here is, you know, companies worth trillions of dollars, which is not something that any other country is able to claim.”
Wang: 47 US senators attended law school; only one holds STEM degree
“Right now, I think there's something like 47 U.S. Senators who went to law school, and one has had any degree that resembles a STEM degree.”
Wang: Adding a San Francisco bus lane took 20 years to complete
“Van Ness Avenue has tried to add a bus line onto the avenue for something like 20 years. It took about 20 years, more or less, to add a bus lane.”
Wang: China's strategic industries are dominated by three state-owned enterprises each
“So all of these upstream strategic industries like telecommunications airlines energy, essentially these are always organized by three giant state-owned companies that control pretty much the entire state of the business.”