China’s Latest Ghost Town: A $50 Billion Fake Replica Of Manhattan

“They are building stuff that nobody really wants or needs… and there will be a day of reckoning” sums up yet another mega ghost city project under development in China. As NBC News reports, China’s $50-billion knock-off of the Big Apple – near the port city of Tianjin, some 120 miles from Beijing – complete with its own Rockefeller Center and Twin Towers has been billed as the world’s largest financial center in the making. But this Manhattan still has a long way to go…
Ian Williams explains nothing has improved in China since we last highlighted the ghost city phenomenon…

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/11/2014.