China May Be The Future, But It Still Has Some Infrastructure Issues

I couldn’t resist posting this rather scary video of a girl swallowed by a sidewalk sinkhole in Xi’an China. Sure, this doesn’t mean China won’t be a key and influential power in world affairs.  But it does remind us that China is not exactly the inevitable global juggernaut it is sometimes portrayed as.  This is actually not the first time this has happened recently in China. Luckily, this story has a happy ending… a taxi driver jumped in to save the day. (h/t shanghaiist)