>>20149057That longwall must be 30 feet high, eclipsing anything in any Western underground coal mine by far. The biggest in America is about 15 feet, half the size, at Signal Peak Mine in Roundup, Montana.
Now I want to go to that Chinese coal mine and see that longwall and sing the praises of mighty China.
If they haven't won the technological war yet, then they have certainly pulled ahead, even far ahead, in many areas, and within a generation they'll likely have full spectrum technological dominance.
Good thing the Chinese mainly just want to trade and rule in a mercantilist way, or we'd be doomed.