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Inside the world's largest ghost mall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of a Chinese century

It’s hard to say what’s more interesting about this video in which a CNN reporter tours the New South China Mall, the largest mall in the world when it was built five years ago, now a deserted ghost-mall. On the one had, there’s the “eerie urban landscape” of the mall itself, and on the other, there’s the comforting, sinophobic narrative of the clip: “China’s economy is huge and growing, America’s is contracting, but look, it’s all smoke and mirrors! The Chinese growth is just an illusion!”

The New South China Mall was once promoted as the world’s biggest mall, but it’s now pretty much deserted.

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