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"According to BSB chief executive officer, Zhang Yue, he said that the company is confident that the government will give the go ahead for this project."

I wonder if this building project, which the submitted link says has not even received government approval, will go the way of high-speed rail in China: first, a lot of gee-whiz headlines; second, deadly failures. Shoddy construction of buildings led to considerable loss of life during recent earthquakes in China.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-06-china-construc...

(2008 Sichuan earthquake)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/deadly-earthquake...

(2012 Qinghai earthquake)

I've been reading the Chinese press in the original Chinese for a long time, so I tend to read between the lines when I see news out of China.




But you don't read between the lines with USA Today, and The Australian?

"Unbiased press" = oxymoron




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