Comments on: Don’t walk too close to a tall building in China

By: ZZMike

ZZMike — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:05:08 +0000

parker Reading the post, I wondered what is the Chinese translation of “Potemkin”.

By: lgude

lgude — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:34:57 +0000

In 1946 when I was 4 or 5 I had a globe and thought the way to learn about the world was to point to a country and ask my dad about it. When I got to China I recall he went on for some time explaining about Chiang Kai Shek and corruption and was pretty pessimistic about China’s chances of recovering from it. Obviously Mao wonderfully concentrated the collective Chinese mind by slaughtering unreckoned millions of people. Now it seems that as swampy as our swampy swamp is, the Chinese have abundantly rediscovered their ancestral tendencies.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:32:40 +0000

This is a simple scam- shoddy construction sold to suckers.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:06:56 +0000

Any one who is any kind of construction person will look at this and ask, What the hell is going on?”

No, you don’t need to know a thing about construction to observe the shoddy construction shown in this video. It’s that obvious.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:37:46 +0000

I was invited to a scientific meeting in the Crimea, Ukraine in 1994 that was held at what had been a Black Sea resort for Communist Party members before the collapse. The location was fantastic but the accommodations were bizzare.

The construction techniques were similar to the ones described in the videos. The bath tub in my room was poured concrete but they had never got around to lining it resulting in a rough sandstone finish inside. Using the toilet was always an adventure since it tended to fall apart when you sat on it.

I was told that staging of the materials during construction was haphazard. For example, the floor boards might arrive before the roof was even on the building, so they were just left outside in the elements until they were ready to be installed. The best result was warped floors. Sometimes you got pre-rotted floors.

Socialism at its finest.

By: SXS

SXS — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:19:23 +0000

The problems with empty cities of building in China may be bad construction and code of compliance for them. But let take away our senses o other side of this matter, just look around you on your streets and your neighbourhood how many Chines living or been living in western world or other part of the ward.

In my neighbourhood, till 2009 no Chinses face been seen here, in today time I can put 90% on the street face Chinses, more over there are completes house blokes of Chinses, there are China Town shopping centres there are a lot of demographic shift with this wave of Chines. So these massive population moved from homeland thus those Ghost Town crated at home land.

By: blert

blert — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:52:19 +0000

What you’re looking at is construction committed by untrained men.

It’s taking them as much time to build things wrong as it would do things right.

One can only pray that such follies are the norm within the PLA.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:44:15 +0000

I worked for a design for in the early 2000’s that did a lot of work in China. I never visited, but my boss did. The construction process was bizarre. Normally, buildings are built in order — for example, you don’t install the drywall until the electrician and plumbing. But in China, if the drywallers are there, they’ll install the drywall, and then the electrical and plumbing contractors will come in and tear out drywall to install it, which will then get patched as best as someone who doesn’t care will do. He saw a ton of flooring installed before the concrete was cured. Probably the most minoring thing was seeing insulation back-stuffed in some way. It’s been so long, I can’t remember, but I do remember the description of stuffing the insulation…

The media keep telling me that the US must block first on this tariff war, but this makes me think we got a shot at China blinking first. It’s not the Lion the left would have us believe.

By: parker

parker — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:41:40 +0000

Much of China’s economy is a Potemkin village. China stays afloat on stealing technology, corruption, cheap labor, and political repression.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:52:34 +0000

It is always the kickbacks.

China is most likely even more corrupt in terms of personal bribery than even Mexico is.

There are stories that corrupt agencies use attractive female agents to sell real estates, as she gets a kickback, by trading sex for 10+ million RMB sales. A perhaps more primitive version of the Hollywood DC elite standard.