The Hongqi bridge was recently completed in China. It's one of the world's highest bridges, and has been touted as an example of China's advancement and superiority.
Hongqi Bridge - HighestBridges.com
www.highestbridges.com
It just collapsed.
Edit: When I searched for the Hongqi Bridge, I got a link for the Huajiang Canyon Bridge which was also recently completed and very high. I think this bridge got a lot of attention, and the Hongqi bridge was not as famous. It's still a cautionary tale of hubris.
Serpentza and laowhy86 recently had a good breakdown on shoddy Chinese building practices, the real estate scams, the corruption & bribing and ultimately addressing the underlying immorality of Chinese society, aka noone gives a shit if you die whilst they make a handful of coins extra.
The boys use a Hebei apartment casestudy as a guiding principle, in the video below a Chinese leasee complains about her newly constructed apartment block which is showing cracks in ceiling, supporting columns, floors and walls, has cement crumbling and inner walls collapsing, and the property's garage has also sunk. The real restate developer, construction company and maintenance tried to hide it by painting it over and putting drywall against the walls. The woman is desperate because her life savings are in this tofu dreg apartment (block) and the mortgage is on her name, she has nowhere else to go.
The whole ordeal below just screams China.
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