such a waste of assets... the chinese are creeping up in this world; super power within sight!
Some good points in this thread; the Chinese are much more proactive than the Western countries have been, and their thinking spans decades rather than just the next (or last) Quarter.
I talked to my manager about this weeks ago and he had some good thoughts on the subject. How accurate he was, I don't know, but it sounded good. According to him, China still has many people that are living in poverty or "living off the land". China is trying to bring these people out of the wood work and get them into a city life, kind of like having their own industrial revolution. Since China has such a huge mass of people it would be hard to build everything at the spur of the moment, thus they build the cities now to occupy the people when they decide to take on the city life.
I haven't looked much into the subject but it sounds like a good hypothesis.
God I wish we had one of these....best prank ever:
Get your buddy smashed to the point he passes out. Drive him to the ghost town an put him in a building. Have some buddies dress up in full zombie wear. The next morning, let him wander around for a bit and get real freaked out...then release the zombies!
Why would it be for aftermath of war? What's to say those "cities" don't get blown the F up too?
Doesn't make any sense at all. There's no way that's what they are for.
Some good points in this thread; the Chinese are much more proactive than the Western countries have been, and their thinking spans decades rather than just the next (or last) Quarter.
God I wish we had one of these....best prank ever:
Get your buddy smashed to the point he passes out. Drive him to the ghost town an put him in a building. Have some buddies dress up in full zombie wear. The next morning, let him wander around for a bit and get real freaked out...then release the zombies!
yeah bill murray thought that would be a funny idea too in zombieland
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!!!!!!
And unless we do the same.........................................................
Yeah this is probably a case of them "having the money to build so why not do it now?" kind of deal. Plus them funding huge building projects like this employs people and strengthens their economy even more.
So the Goverment spends a bunch of money on building cities that no one is going to live in and somehow that will strengthen the economy. Someone call Obama, we have an answer.
lol, if you think it doesnt work, just look at similar things we did here to bring us out of the Great Depression. Public works like the Grand Coulee dam (Hoover dam), building giant skyscrapers just cause, and the Eisenhower freeway system.
Problem is, we dont have the money to fund said projects because were so freaking retarded in debt right now.
The probably have Chinese drywall in all those buildings...