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Will China's Manhattan Succeed, or Crash and Burn?

It feels like the set of a post-apocalyptic zombie movie.

Empty skyscrapers, many incomplete, overlook deserted streets. Newly planted flowers in a riverside park have no one to appreciate them. An entire city which plans to grow to about ten times the present floor space of London’s Canary Wharf waiting for workers to fill its glass and steel towers.