A Towering Inferno: Chinese Skyscraper Burns Like a 40-Story Torch [Shocking Video]

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Like a 40-story torch, a Chinese building burns. We're told that the Chinese Communist regime is building the cities of the future, but time and again, we see shoddy, substandard and dangerous construction practices that endanger lives...and we've got the shocking video. What did they do with all the money from the explosion of technology and exports? Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott create 260 new episodes of Right Angle each year thanks to our Members. They produce, not only these programs, but their own content at the Member-written blog, forums and vibrant comment discussions. Join them, and make some like-minded friends for life when you tap the big green button at https://BillWhittle.com If you appreciate this episode and want to make your reaction tangible, tap the big blue button at https://BillWhittle.com to make a one-time or recurring donation with credit card or PayPal. Either way, we're grateful for you. Thank you. To explore the deep archive of conservative content in the Right Angle archive, visit https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/ra/

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0:00.0	It's a pathological attempt of a society with a huge inferiority complex to try to catch up to the West.
0:11.0	Well, she's been standing there since 1931, and for 39 years, it was the tallest building in the world.
0:19.1	The Empire State Building is America's iconic skyscraper. There are other buildings that got taller in the United States, in the world. The Empire State Building is America's iconic skyscraper.
0:22.0	There are other buildings that got taller in the United States, including the World Trade Center,
0:25.6	which is no longer with us. But nothing is like the World Trade Center. It's made out of granite.
0:30.1	It took a hit from an airplane back around World War II, a B-25 flew right into it.
0:34.8	It was finished, as I said, in 1931. It's never caught fire. It's never
0:38.1	shaken. It's never done any of those things because it's built to last. And it's an amazing
0:41.7	piece of architecture and one of the wonders of the modern world. Now, we've all seen how
0:46.9	cities in China look like they're out of some kind of science fiction rendering, but there's a
0:51.1	little bit more to the story than that. Here, for example, is footage of a Chinese skyscraper.
0:56.2	It's a thousand feet tall.
0:57.5	The Empire State Building tops out at 1,400 feet.
1:00.4	It's called the SEG Plaza.
1:02.0	It's a thousand feet tall.
1:03.0	And as you can see from the inside, there was a day not too long ago when everything in the
1:06.7	building started shaking.
1:07.8	So the occupants of the building immediately ran out into the street,
1:11.2	quite convinced that this was an earthquake, and I've been through several earthquakes,
1:15.0	looked exactly like this. They found out of the surprise when they get on the street that the
1:18.5	street was doing fine, but the building was still shaking. Apparently it shook for three days.
1:22.2	There was no earthquake. This gigantic, thousand-foot skyscraper was simply wobbling and doing that and it wasn't even
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