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I mean, isn't there pretty substantial evidence that those "ghost cities" are just speculative development that, most of the time, is productive?

See: https://youtu.be/SR4EYQ6JFUI?si=brfvaXCezqVI0hiL

The party's approach to dealing with the marginalized rural population is to just urbanize as many people as possible. That's also why they speculatively build out housing. In 2023, at least, rural people are getting more disposable income growth than urban ones:

In the first half of the year, the nationwide per capita disposable income of residents was 19,672 yuan, a nominal growth of 6.5 percent over the same period last year, and a real growth of 5.8 percent after deducting price factors. In terms of urban and rural areas, the per capita disposable income of urban households was 26,357 yuan, a growth of 5.4 percent (unless otherwise specified below, it was a year-on-year nominal growth), and the real growth was 4.7 percent after deducting price factors; the per capita disposable income of rural households was 10,551 yuan, a growth of 7.8 percent. After deducting price factors, the real growth was 7.2 percent.

Let me just build a 20 billion dollar nuclear reactor in a country without a functioning grid.

Oh.

KMT policy is literally that they are represent the government of all of the Chinese territories. Come on, man.

Israel is on record for faking a video of a "nurse from al-Shifa condemning Hamas." Video evidence from Israel isn't worth the data stream it's made out of.

More production with less money. Almost like GDP isn't a good measure to compare economies?

Natural gas, well-known for being a clean source of energy:

Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says

Study: Methane leaks from U.S. oil-and-gas region worse than estimates

I'm sure someone will try to tell me why increasing natural gas production is a good thing or that this is tankie propaganda in support of coal.

The IDF built a network of tunnels for a bunker under al-Shifa hospital back when they occupied Gaza.

Is this according to the same Israel that called a water reservoir an "opening into the Hamas tunnels?"

The same one that released a faked video of a "nurse from al-Shifa?"

Is this according to the same Israel that called a water reservoir an "opening into the Hamas tunnels?"

The same one that released a faked video of a "nurse from al-Shifa?"

I mean, if lemmy.world is keen on spreading unverifiable propaganda (potentially true, potentially false):

Noa Marciano was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Her wounds are consistent with airstrike collateral, not an execution.

Let me just deploy nuclear, hydro, geothermal, and gigantic wind turbines in an emerging country.

Oh. Oops.

IIRC China denominates their loans in USD because they have a massive USD surplus due to the US-China trade imbalance. It's aligned with China's policy today of rapidly shrinking US Treasury holdings.