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How are more people not talking about the futuristic cities in China? (hexbear.net)
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Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn't look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the "middle class" is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There’s actually nothing in those towers, they’re just big empty buildings with a bunch of led panels on,

anyway I was late to work today bc the bridge on my commute collapsed

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

The virgin Chinese ghost cities vs the chad US zombie infrastructure

[–] temptest@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Speaking of big empty buildings, even Pyongyang, DPRK has some Neo Tokyo lookin' night photos.

There's a fucking North Korean city that looks cooler and more 'futuristic' than most US cities.