China Replicates Austrian Town

Our friends in China are so enamored with Austria that they’re replicating entire towns. They’ve already cloned the Austrian burg of Hallstatt, and now those crafty Reds are carefully analyzing the castle featured in The Sound of Music and the cute gabled homes of nearby Innsbruck to build their own gingerbread metropolis. This replication initially outraged some of the Austrians, but they seem to have warmed to it and recognize that meticulous, detailed imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This also explains why Asian tourists are always taking so many photos: they’re not site seeing, they’re making architectural notes.

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