Culture | Welcome to the machine As opposed to America, which is ruled by lawyersPhotograph: Getty ImagesMany of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has built a motorway network twice the length of America’s and a high-speed rail network more than 15 times the size of Japan’s. It uses almost as much solar and wind power as the rest of the world combined, and it produces around one-third of the world’s manufactured goods.Explore moreChinaCultureHistoryThe E...