If you actually look into local chinese politics you see a lot of stupidity, nonsense and power games there too. A combination of factors makes this less apparent to the typical chinese or american observer although, in different ways.
The nice thing is that they're stupid about different things!
So if the US blunders on nuclear power, China can succeed. In the end the world can use the solutions from countries who got things right.
This is one reason I think World Government would be an enormous disaster, with all of humanity within a single point of failure.
Don't get me wrong, I do understand there's a lot wrong with Chinese politics, their system of government, human rights, etc. There is no perfect society anywhere on this planet. Not justifying any of it, just stating the obvious.
However, when you look at a place like the US, you have to slap your forehead and ask what we are thinking. The "we" being voters, of course. We hand over the reigns to people who would be ambulance chasers and used car salesmen and expect good results? That's not even fair, ambulance chasers and used car salesmen are probably better than the people in politics.
I don't want to sound partisan, because I am not. You look at people like AOC, Schummer, McConnel, Trump, Clinton, Obama, Bush, etc., etc., etc., and you really have to ask: Are these folks truly a representation of the best this nation can offer. I would be shocked if anyone intelligent though any of them (and the rest) are. Garbage-in, garbage-out. Simple as that.
Simple example: Go back N elections. Say, n=15, that's 60 years. Dig-up videos and speeches. If you can hold back your projectile vomiting, watch a few. They have been promising solutions to healthcare, education and myriad other topics for decades and decades. I can understand that things aren't as simple as they might seem from behind this keyboard. That's a given. But, 60 years and we are still saying things are broken? What the hell have these people done in 60 years?
Simple: In a conspiracy-theory world, if you keep these issues alive you can use and reuse them election after election to divide the population into groups on on either side of the issues and get votes. If you actually fix problems you have to work hard for other things to get done. It is far easier to make promises and then drop people on their heads after you get elected. I know this is a cynical view, but the proof is in the pudding as they say. The fact that, decades later, we are still saying that everything every politician always runs on is broken means these people are not doing their job.
If you think about this from the perspective of any other profession it becomes obvious. The difference is that outside politics these kinds of negative results get you fired.
Getting back on topic. We need to become rabid supporters and exceptional builders of nuclear power or we need to forget about the utopia of a fully electric transportation system.
How would we build 150 reactors today? We would get together "industry leaders" to consult, who would suggest half of that be some non-nuclear nonsense to line their pockets, then we would provide incentives to companies written by those companies with loopholes, would take that money and make half assed attempts that allow them to keep the largest portion of taxpayer money possible with the least effort, and then abandon their efforts to shell companies embroiled in lawsuits.
Little would get done at the cost of massive amounts of public money flowing into private hands. This is by design, and its the only thing politics is aligned to do. When it works out in some area, it's fluke for the system and fortune in a sea of failure for the people of the nation.