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One of the Chinese skyscraper started shaking. People evacuated.

The Western media has been on an endless crusade to slander and denigrate anything and everything about China, so a single building started swaying and they jumped on the opportunity to write a hundred propaganda articles. Right on cue, the Indian lapdogs (slumdogs?) on this forum started jumping up and down in response to their master.

In reality, China's total housing stock is probably one of the most durable and long-lasting. I'll explain why, but before that let's talk about American houses.

The vast majority of American houses in the suburbs are made of weak wooden beams and flimsy plywood. Doesn't matter if the house is big or small, cheap or expensive, the underlying material and construction methods are the same.
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Want an example of the flimsy nature of American homes? Google some before and after pictures of the 2020 wildfires. Entire neighborhoods of wood-framed houses burn to the ground.
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It's not just fires. But tornadoes and hurricanes wipe out American homes the exact same way. Entire towns get flattened.

Now we go to China. Every year China produces and consumes 50-60% of the world's concrete and constructs residential real estate like this:
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The above photos are from Xiong'an. Notice how China's communist economic system has the ability to produce a literal forest of concrete high-rise apartment buildings and cranes as far as the eye can see. An entire brand-new megacity is being built all at once right in front of your eyes. Notice how the Western media doesn't even talk about Xiong'an. Barely a peep from CNN, Fox News, WSJ, CNBC, New York Times. They won't even call it a ghost city because they know it's not true, so instead they pretend it doesn't exist lol.

Concrete is fireproof, bulletproof, can resist hurricane force winds, and is immune from termites and wood rot.

Want an example of the durable nature of concrete? How about the Roman Pantheon? It has lasted nearly two thousand years.
 
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First of all, this building built in 1997 has neither cracks nor has collapsed.

Next the structural engineers are still assessing the cause. They have yet to submit their official report.

The building may not be the cause as the experts need to study the foundation due to changes to the geological soil structures.
The constructions nearby in recent years example the MRT, etc. may have weaken the structure.

But all the political propaganda in here amused me.
 
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China continues to monopolize 50-60% of the world's concrete and continues to build — adding to what is already the world's largest expressway network. Indians, on the other hand, continue to do absolutely nothing while talking loudly on the internet.

Everything below opens to traffic at the end of this month or June at the latest.

Jingde Expressway
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Jingxiong Expressway and Rongwu Expressway interchange.
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Jingde Expressway crosses the Jingxiong High Speed Rail.
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Yunmao Expressway
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Actually I was spooked because I thought it might be a US designed building in China ..that's all we need some US designed building in China collapsing.

However thankfully I don't see it listed:
Yep, US is leading the world in every aspect in those rankings which made by Americans. Your country's ability to fight a pandemic is also ranked number one in your own ranking before the covid-19 pandemic. Boasting,boasting and more boasting,and you believe those bullshit rankings which can be ranked in several minutes by every random man?
Your building is falling down like potatoes, yesterday I checked 100 American people might have died in a mansion which collapsed.
 
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Your building is falling down like potatoes, yesterday I checked 100 American people might have died in a mansion which collapsed.

Putting people in cement high rises is simply going to exacerbate tragedies like this:
"Over 69,000 people lost their lives in the quake"
Watch this and learn something

The US has far more earthquakes than China and the last time over 150 people got killed during one was over 100 years ago. 10's of thousands are not getting flattened in the US like Sichuan by cement buildings during a quake.

This week's cement high rise collapse in Florida shows these types of homes are ticking deathtraps where the people inside are oblivious to the current structural state of the building (whether good or bad) by the frankness of the building management. At least with my wooden home I'm in full control of inspections and have access everywhere. I can repair or build new additions anytime.

Some people like full control over their lives while others are happy giving that up to a stranger who probably isn't serving their best interests.
 
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Putting people in cement high rises is simply going to exacerbate tragedies like this:
"Over 69,000 people lost their lives in the quake"

The US has far more earthquakes than China and the last time over 150 got killed during one was over 100 years ago. 10's of thousands are not getting flattened in the US like Sichuan by cement buildings during a quake.

This week's cement high rise collapse in Florida shows these types of homes are ticking deathtraps where the people inside are oblivious to the current structural state of the building (whether good or bad) by the frankness of the building management. At least with my wooden home I'm in full control of inspections and have access everywhere. I can repair or build new additions anytime.

Some people like full control over their lives while others are happy giving that up to a stranger who probably isn't serving their best interests.
Nope, wood does not have enough strength to complete with steel and cement. In inner city you need buildings taller then 3 stories and wood won't cut it.
 
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Nope, wood does not have enough strength to complete with steel and cement. In inner city you need buildings taller then 3 stories and wood won't cut it.

Well of course. I wouldn't want houses made of wood over 3 stories tall either. I'm talking about the reasons why probably > 90% of the population in the US lives in a building 3 stories or less usually made of wood.

Even the Russians are souring over cement high-rise development.
 
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Well of course. I wouldn't want houses made of wood over 3 stories tall either. I'm talking about the reasons why probably > 90% of the population in the US lives in a building 3 stories or less usually made of wood.

Even the Russians are souring over cement high-rise development.
The word you are looking for is suburbanization which is inefficient and unsustainable. It's also why the US has no good mass transit system.
 
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The word you are looking for is suburbanization which is inefficient and unsustainable. It's also why the US has no good mass transit system.

I'm sure Mao and the Chinese people scoffed at wasteful dense US multi-family apartment city living when the "correct lifestyle" of shared communal farming began in China after WW2..while we shook our heads in disbelief.

Now the "in correct lifestyle" thing in China is the same thing we had at the time. However now that we have moved away from this lifestyle China again scoffs at our supposed wasteful lifestyle...while we again shake our heads in disbelief.
 
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I'm sure Mao and the Chinese people scoffed at wasteful dense US multi-family apartment city living when the "correct lifestyle" of shared communal farming began in China after WW2..while we shook our heads in disbelief.

Now the "in correct lifestyle" thing in China is the same thing we had at the time. However now that we have moved away from this lifestyle China again scoffs at our supposed wasteful lifestyle...while we again shake our heads in disbelief.
correct lifestyle is a matter of personal preference and that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about efficiency and sustainability.
 
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