Perhaps because they are contradictory and can't be intertwined...?

Hmmm. China, a communist country, ventures into a capitalist real estate endeavor because the communist method didn't work and then screws it all up. Why is there any surprise here?

Edit add: Our country seems to be doing the opposite. That is, a capitalist (mostly) country dabbling in communism and screwing it all up. A pattern here?

Yes. Socialist authoritarians have to find someone to loot when they run out of their own resources.

They look like they've been left in the weather for months or longer. Useless at this point unless possibly used for burning.

We're largely an interconnected society, so unfortunately when one country, say Chyna, pisses in someone else's backyard, say, the rest of the world, everyone suffers, including Chyna. Short term gains may be made but in the end we all suffer.

Those are the worst 2x4s I've ever seen...did they really think they could build anything with them?

Maybe a haunted house?

Apparently the Party plans to support the market with 200 billion yuan ($30 billion.)
If the problem is as bad as rumored, that sounds like a drop in the bucket.
(Even the IRS got $80 billion in funding recently - although they are facing 300 million
armed "customers", so that funding is as wasted as the arms left behind in Afghanistan.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chi...

Nothing so profitable as war. Culls the mouths to feed, boosts productivity and then you have to rebuild.

We're certainly weak enough in every aspect to lose.

Yep.....historically.
If things get bad enough.......invade Taiwan.

problems at home often lead to war