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		By: Dick Eagleson		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[U.S. space launch sites, all being coastal, this sort of thing has been an occasional nuisance here since the get-go decades back.  The PRC&#039;s veteran launch sites are all well inland, though, and not subject to damage from massive storms that sweep in from the sea.  Welcome to the Coastal Launch Site Club, PRC.  It&#039;s not all beer and skittles.

One also has to wonder how much of the purported damage at Wenchang is due to deficiencies in build quality of PRC space launch infrastructure.  The PRC has long spent a great deal on infrastructure of all kinds as a way to boost its GDP, but a lot of it is apparently of questionable quality.  Rail and roadway bridges have collapsed with some frequency and so have entire apartment blocks.  There has even arisen a pejorative phrase to describe this type of sub-par corner-cut construction - tofu dreg, as though the stuff was built with bean curd instead of concrete.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U.S. space launch sites, all being coastal, this sort of thing has been an occasional nuisance here since the get-go decades back.  The PRC&#8217;s veteran launch sites are all well inland, though, and not subject to damage from massive storms that sweep in from the sea.  Welcome to the Coastal Launch Site Club, PRC.  It&#8217;s not all beer and skittles.</p>
<p>One also has to wonder how much of the purported damage at Wenchang is due to deficiencies in build quality of PRC space launch infrastructure.  The PRC has long spent a great deal on infrastructure of all kinds as a way to boost its GDP, but a lot of it is apparently of questionable quality.  Rail and roadway bridges have collapsed with some frequency and so have entire apartment blocks.  There has even arisen a pejorative phrase to describe this type of sub-par corner-cut construction &#8211; tofu dreg, as though the stuff was built with bean curd instead of concrete.</p>
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