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[โ€“] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this circulated on reddit as proof that China was on the brink of collapse.

There was a 60 Minutes over a decade ago about the economic collapse awaiting China. It showed large apartment buildings and massive freeways that were underutilized, with foreboding narration saying that it was a sign of corruption among real estate developers or officials or something. In light of the 2008 collapse I think it was projection and coping about the continual failures of neoliberal capitalism, and reflective of the common western worldview that sees China as a scheming villain.