I come asking this question in good faith because all I see is neoliberal Americans - who have not fully reckoned with our own homelessness issue - acting horrified of the videos going around of China demolishing unused apartments .
I would like to learn more about this sort of thing from a less biased, non-western source. Can someone actually put this video into proper context?
What more context do you need? Building projects in the west fail and get demolished sometimes, too. As noted from the description of the video, "Authorities decided to take action because the buildings had been abandoned for a long time and the basements were submerged in rainwater. " There's no gotcha here, some private development project failed and the reasonable response is to demolish them for safety, so they did.
It's incredible to me how the most absolutely mundane shit is met with suspicion when china does it.
But I guess that is how they get you to fear shadows.
I remember a whole discourse about some chinese kids playing with a ball outside
I think that's just indicative of China's size and density. Most things that happen in that country involve what seems to a westerner to be a massive amount of people, so it was a big development project that failed for some reason and necessitated a big demolition.
there's pretty insane videos of giant housing projects being demolished in the US too. a whole bunch of buildings imploding at once.
Literally private companies failing to actually complete the project until the foundations rotted away and the buildings became unsafe.
Under a neoliberal order they would've been completed and eventually collapsed on their own for "mysterious" reasons, one at a time.
IIRC that video (at least it looks the same as what I saw) the buildings were not finished and then the foundations were damaged by floods so uhh, it's a good thing. The comments on the video are hilarious though, such delusion
Everyone is repeating the CCP lie that sometimes large-scale demolitions happen in the real estate business. Truth is Chinese just did this to flex on the west. Same with the ghost cities, its like pouring out champagne for them, they just have so many tall buildings they burn them to light Chinese cigars off of
