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?

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Demolishing 15 scyscrapers at the same time is pretty notable tbf.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

      • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        there's pretty insane videos of giant housing projects being demolished in the US too. a whole bunch of buildings imploding at once.