Google’s Satellite Images Reveal Chinese ‘Ghost Cities’ (scallywagandvagabond.com)

Clearly a popular submission - we've seen it three times before this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014746

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006910

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015447 <- This third submission got the upvotes and the comments.

I really get a kick out of Google satellite images of China. There are a lot of oddities, such as that 1/3rd scale replica of a mountain region (assumed to be Tibetan?) with a facility nearby full of tanks/cars/etc.

"Nobody's ever really lost money on real estate in China" - how can you short this market? Do they have entities analogous to REITs there?