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Thames town Thames Town in Songjiang was constructed in 2005 for 5 billion Yuan. Like many towns in China Thames Town was built with a European theme, in this case British. The center features many storefronts sometimes keeping the same name as the English store it was copied from. The stores however remain empty, as the surrounding Villa compounds remain largely unoccupied.[4] Instead Thames Town has become one of China's most desirable backdrops for wedding photography.[5]
South China Mall The New South China Mall is the largest mall in the world according to area. However it remains 99% vacant since 2005, housing only a handful of shops.
Speaking at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, Murata warned that “if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4,” writes Matsumura.
A report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool of the plant’s No. 4 reactor has clearly been shown to be “the weakest link” in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear disaster. The worse-case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of the No. 4 reactor pool, but the disintegration of spent fuel rods from all the plant’s other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate.
Could China have had anything to do with the disaster in the first place? I'm not even going to go close to suggesting that this is the case, but many already suggest that HAARP was responsible, so why not China?
Originally posted by boncho
Could China have had anything to do with the disaster in the first place? I'm not even going to go close to suggesting that this is the case, but many already suggest that HAARP was responsible, so why not China?
Sounds like you just went pretty close to suggesting HAARP caused the quake so it can fit in with your hypothesis.
Planting seeds are we?
Originally posted by sealing
Whew!! For a minute there I thought Japan was evacuated
and headed for China and a perfect Storm was brewing.
Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
Your idea makes for interesting reading but I personally think its very far from reality.
As you mentioned the cities were all built years ago I doubt (even with my tin foil hat on very firmly) that the Fukushima disaster was anticipated by the Chinese back then.
I also remember hearing that the cities were built to stimulate the economy, keeping people in work and money circulating.
It does make me think though that considering Chinas population is shrinking, building cities was an odd choice
Originally posted by BiggerPicture
well CHINA has been killing whole villages of Tibet (tens of thousands of Tibetans) and installing new Chinese residents into the Tibetan towns to Chinese-ify them..
perhaps they could take in Japanese refugees and do the same?
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A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities… including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.
The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned”.....
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Originally posted by dowot
Hi all.
Nobody here read any history?
The Japanese invaded China and massacred a lot of people.
Since then the Chinese have not exactly been friends with Japan, so I do not see China making the offer.
Re the deserted towns, I believe that Ordos, was occupied for some time whilst mining was carried out in the local area, when this declined the town was abandoned.
I remember when I was out there, seeing a whole shopping mall. Abandoned and left to decay, because nobody used it. Sometimes forward planning is a bit waylaid by dreams.