Then China started filling them and everyone just wiped that criticism from existence like they never said it. Gotta keep our enemy looking as incompetent as a Saturday morning cartoon villain

turns out those empty cities were a really good idea once china's urbanization boom really took off. Now there's already houses and everything for those people where the jobs are. In socialist america we really should do something similar to handle the climate refugees, get them housed and working immediately to prepare for the next wave of migrants.