Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future
The next decade or so is going to be very interesting. Western democracies have now overly partisan political system where most of the effort is spent in just cancelling out each other. Whatever remains is typically taken away by lobbyist that only help to further inflate shareholder value, which large majority of population isn’t. On the other hand authoritarian governments are able to move swiftly and decisively on issues and infrastructure. For example, government simply can deny cars with odd numbered license plates to drive on Mondays to reduce traffic and pollution. They are obviously rampant with corruption and bad decisions like creating ghost towns but marginal leftover value that remains seem to be still big enough for actual public works than in highly polarized democracy. I am not favoring one over another but long term consequences of this marginal efficiency could be highly compounding.