Paper Tiger Balm Cannot Soothe Economic Woes

Dantu, Erenhot, Bayannao’er, Zhengzhou (New District) are just a few places that remain ghost towns. Some of these towns were built a decade ago, yet boast a tenth of the intended population.

(check out this extensive pictorial done by Business Insider to truly get the scope of this disaster.)

These (soon to be crumbling) Ghost Cities serve as gargantuan monuments to modern China, symbolizing the sheer power of the Chinese government to bend the citizenry to its will and that same government’s total lack of feasible long term planning.