It's pretty funny. We've known for a decade at least that in a real war with China we wouldn't be able to get an aircraft carrier anywhere near their shore because of the anti-ship missiles, but now that can be true for anybody.
Its actually dogshit though regardless of the narrative because it’s meant for rich businessmen to speculate and not for people to live in. Still, tired of hearing “ghost city” in the year of our lord 2024
still laugh when i see people like "theres nothing in these units in this high-rise its not even finished". yeah. thats chinese culture. you buy the condo or whatever and you are literally expected to do the drywall, fixtures, and all that yourself for those new constructions. its also normal to buy one someone else owned and rip everything out to the studs and redo it. its based in some traditional mysticism or something
Yeah seems like a housing project that failed entirely. Guess it is what it is, there are many that succeeded and there's bound to be failures also lol to the speculators eating shit though
GHOST city with its GHOST high speed rail and bustling GHOST markets full of GHOSTS and high quality healthSCARE and a university full of BONES where you can study medicine
For the record, this isn't in China. It's a project in Malaysia near Singapore that is targeted at rich people. It's basically a "sustainable" gated community.
And by "sustainable" I mean that they destroyed wetlands to build it.
It was a project by a Chinese housing developer and was an extension of the real estate bubble over there. A lot of buyers were Chinese, however, according to Wikipedia:
initial strong sales from China collapsed after its leader Xi Jinping implemented currency controls, including a $50,000 annual cap on how much buyers could spend outside the country.
The developer responsible is one of the big shots that suffered when the housing bubble was forced to pop. I have no qualms riffing on this particular project.