> built road is still there and a built office still exists You could equally well say this of a house foreclosed on by a bank in the U.S. during the housing c

> built road is still there and a built office still exists You could equally well say this of a house foreclosed on by a bank in the U.S. during the housing crisis. But do you really have any doubt that such houses lying fallow and the resources that go into reselling them are both economic losses? The same will be and is true of the empty offices and untravelled roads in China.