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China has ghost cities with empty apartment buildings. They have tons of resources to waste.
Tell me you're living half a decade in the past without telling me. "Ghost cities" are actually areas where the state preplanned urbanization so everything would be in place when people started moving in. In fact, most of these "ghost cities" are actually populated now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China
Edit: could someone please explain why I'm being downvoted? I've provided a source to back up my statements. Or is this a case of "everything about China is bad because Red Scare"?
I stated a fact and you bent over backwards trying to prove anyone who agreed with me was wrong.
Ghost cities are real. It wasn't a 'everything about China is bad' comment like you whined so that's why you're getting downvoted.
Why get all defensive anyway? Is someone paying you to defend China from any criticism? You come across like you're simping for China.
Do you get upset when people talk about winnie the poo?
Defensive like downvoting facts?
Yeah some urban preplanning didn’t work out but most of those cities are filled up to the point of working now.
I remember back then all those articles - “China is building empty cities! Ha ha so dumb! Who’s gonna buy that, they all work in factories!”
It’s pretty striking that an .ml user posted a comment defending a verifiable fact, and got 10 downvotes for being “uppity”. Oh, sorry for the Wikipedia link sir, I will think more about respect for all powerful America next time
You guys really need to clean out your brainworms sometime, this shit is embarrassing
I said ghost cities exist, and then you said they didn't. That's being defensive and then you went after other people who provided facts and you just got more defensive... and here you are now, being defensive. Do you know what being defensive means?
I don't give 2 shits who downvotes you or why. Grow thicker skin if you can't handle the internet son.