China is full of these stories and it's indeed impressive. But I also often come to think: It's just the power of never ending supply of cheap, un-unionizable

China is full of these stories and it's indeed impressive. But I also often come to think: It's just the power of never ending supply of cheap, un-unionizable labor [1], with no political self-determination and thus close to zero binding building restrictions nor environmental ones. [1] of course, in a socialist state there is a union. One, and only one, that is working for the government.