re: China has at least two 2,000 foot tall unfinished and abandoned skyscrapers

Yep. There has been a lot of useless stuff built in China, and all of the money spent on that useless stuff is part of their “amazing” GDP growth. As one critic said, “The USA could pay Americans a trillion dollars to have water balloon fights on the national mall, and it would increase our GDP by a trillion dollars. But what’s the point?”