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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by reaperducer on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:13PM (#19638136)
The original articles about “China’a ghost town” were also not true.

I've seen news reports on NHK showing Chinese ghost cities. One was a very long (maybe an hour) documentary that also included the ghost villages happening because people are being forced to move to the cities.

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by gthtjtkt on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:22PM (#19638207)
Yeah, I watch a few YouTube channels of Americans in China and the ghost towns are still everywhere. Their buildings in general also seems to be of extremely poor quality, but it's one of those topics that's socially unacceptable to discuss.

Here's a recent example: https://youtu.be/XopSDJq6w8E

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by bgee on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:12PM (#19638654)
> but it's one of those topics that's socially unacceptable to discuss.

What? What's the definition for "socially unacceptable" here? I have always seen news articles discussing the poor build quality in China, here are some examples [0][1].

Here's a discussion on Zhihu (Quora copycat) on house build quality too [2].

[0]: https://cj.sina.com.cn/article/detail/2381596945/79395?cid=6...

[1]: https://house.ifeng.com/column/news/jianzhushouming/index.sh...

[2]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/19641156

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by gthtjtkt on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:30PM (#19724122)
Wow, you found some discussions on the internet where anyone can find discussions about literally anything. I'm convinced!

/s

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