It is tempting to make comparisons with China. The stereotype is that efficient China delivers first-class infrastructure and prestige building projects while chaotic India struggles.

高效的刻板印象是中国提供一流的基础设施建设项目，同时和威望混乱的印度斗争。

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But critics say he wasted billions of dollars on prestige projects with uncertain commercial merit.

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Chaidir, the speaker of Riau's provincial assembly, concedes that Riau's regents have a spendthrift penchant for prestige projects.

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The big prestige projects that impress Tom Friedman are real, but so equally are the squalor of the conditions in which most ordinary Chinese still live.

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