How to fuck up your tourist attractions, China style
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Wait until you learn about the "tofu dregs" that are their awful construction steel
Oh I KNOW about their construction materials and how their steel is complete and utter shit.
A lot of those ghost cities aren't just vacant because they built too much and property prices plummeted, a lot of those buildings are more unsafe than living in a tent on sand they are that structurally weakened.
I remember hearing from some friends I had in the engineering program when I was in college. They had gone to China with the business school to see some construction projects (an office park aimed at foreign companies, specifically), and the engineering students were interested in how fast they were building it.
As they are being lead around by their handler who is explaining all of the wonderful amenities that will be available and the profit that stands to be made, but the engineers were becoming more and more concerned as they saw more structural defects, construction errors, and other things that are considered baseline equipment missing. Eventually, one of them worked up the courage to ask a question: "Where are the cement mixers?" as they had not seen any the entire time.
And with a smile beaming on her face, their handler informed them that they didnt have any, as in order to ensure "maximum employment opportunities" they created concrete in small batches by hand.
The business students spent the rest of the trip talking about the money they could stand to make doing this. The engineering students spent the rest of the trip panicking at every noise they heard and keeping their head on a swivel for the nearest exit at all times. And this was back in the early 2010's. I can only imagine how much worse it is now, when you have Filipino fishing boats capable of punching holes in Chinese destroyers.
America, despite all their issues,has China outgunned even with the personnel size difference for the same reason they outgunned the Soviets:
China LIES about their capabilities, the US spends huge amounts of money to MEET those lies.
Best example is the F-15, that was built to meet the lies the Soviets told about the Mig and, well, there's a reason it's K/D is 104-0. Now take that and apply it to ALL Chinese infrastructure and military equipment and, well, a war with China might just lead to a billion dead....just on one side...
It’s not even really that close. Yeah China has the numbers for a pretty significant ground strike but that’s pretty much it. We always have our bread and butter: air superiority and a strong as fuck Navy
Ah, university flashbacks. Business majors are sociopaths and psychopaths, to a
manxer.I dunno if it's true or not, but I read a lot of their steel is recycled from large salvage. Melted and re-poured? So it is not structurally strong at all as they aren't doing the full process. There's entire ship and vehicle graveyards in India that strip all of the large chunks and send it to China to be melted.