Images of the Post-Apocalypse, Or China's Booming Economy?

You be the judge.

Entire cities are uninhabited in China.




One sentence tells you everything you need to know about the "booming" Chinese economy, and possibility that China will one day eclipse the United States as the world's economic powerhouse:

"All the shops in this mall are empty, not that that worries the government, because they're simply more concerned with maintaining economic growth, and one way of achieving that is building cities like this one."