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China's New Infrastructure is Failing! - Tofu Dreg Bonanza - Episode #169

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The Problem With China's Roads

In China, sometimes the roads eat you and then sometimes they spit you out. They don't survey the land properly, so they'll build things over unstable ground. And this is what happens. Like you will get eaten by roads in China. It's terrifying because if you're driving over that, your vehicle just disappears into that. This is Chongqing - 3,000 years ahead of the West. Just go on Twitter and Instagram and all you will see are Chongqing built on top of a building. Oh, look at this gas station on top of an old apartment block. That was last month. So many corners are cut. You technically do but they just drive it away

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