
High up Yuntai mountain in China’s Henan province is a glass bridge that lets tourists walk out across the sky and look down at the lush valley floor over 3,000 feet below.
Glass walkways like this are quite popular across China, stunning visitors with both beauty and the thrill of danger.
Recently, this one cracked. And many tourists took to social media claiming that pieces of glass in the walkway broke away altogether.
The government of course is spinning a different story.
They reported that the glass walkway is completely safe, even though they’ve decided to close the bridge ‘temporarily’.
This is probably the best metaphor for the entire Chinese economy right now, because the glass is cracking everywhere.
China’s manufacturing sector has been weak for months, and its industrial sector is completely in the dumps.
This week the deputy head of the China Iron and Steel Association said that…
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