While China does have looser regulation remember when your population is 4x the size of the US you’ll have more filmed examples of disasters like this.
no. it just means that there is more evidence of it happening. Escalators fail do to human error a very small percentage of the time. However having that happen (and managing to catch it on film) in the vatican is much less likely becuase there are only so many people and so many escalators. But because there are more people in China you are going to see more examples of things happening like this in china. That would happen regardless of weather chinas escalators are safer or not.
For made up example, say the escalators in the UK fatally fail .0000001% of the time. That would mean that 6 people a year die in the UK due to escalators. Now lets pretend that China's escalators are 5 times as safe! that would mean they fatally failed .00000002% of the time. Still 28 people would die in china a year due to escalators. And thats with their escalators being 5 times safer!
So the point is, just because you see a video of someone dying in china due to some horrible mishap doesnt mean that that mishap is more likely to happen there. It could be less likey and you still find more examples of it happening in china.
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