中国不像（比如）民主的印度那样，有各种草根积极主义约束，用大规模但常常不透明的工程建设让大自然屈从于它的意志，彰显自己的大国地位。
Unconstrained by the kinds of grassroots activism seen in, say, democratic India, China has used massive, but often opaque, construction projects to bend nature to its will and trumpet its rise as a great power.