Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
Any particular reason why not?
China is completely covered with carpets, under which failures are wiped (by the decree of its authoritarian ruler). Including those who dare to make public those failures. See what happened around the Covid-19 origin (both location and existence), the millions of denied deaths, when Covid went haywire in China, etc.
See, what got done after the first High-Speed train accident in China: The carriages got "buried" by a local contractor, just to wipe out the traces.
See the extremely bad, low, and dangerous quality of all the "cheap" crap coming from China.
Not to say, that the long-term development of technical ingenuity does not co-exist with a society where the major task is to avoid "loss of face", where lying is the norm, where extensive punishment is practiced as retaliation for failures, where politics have a major and final say about "technics", etc.
The same fundamental reasons why the Russian military turned out to be completely dysfunctional.
We saw with the MAX, what happens when things are brushed under the carpet, and Boeing still denies it, etc.