Name: Why is China is Building Replicas of American Towns?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why is China is Building Replicas of American Towns?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why is China is Building Replicas of American Towns?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-12. Transcript available.

- Oh, what I see the other day, in China,
there was a, did you see this Jackson Hole,
this city in China that they built?
- Jackson Hole, when I was there they just built a city.
- Really?
- Suzhou wanted to build the district,
so they just like do it, no bureaucracy, make it happen.
- Just build it.
- It was up in six months, 20 skyscrapers.
No waiting, no codes.
- Look at this place, this guy built,
I visited China, it's $170 million
Little America replica town.
It's a town of Jackson Hole.
- Wow, that's just a, that's the burbs.
- Yeah, so it made of Jackson, it just looks like America,
this guy went to visit it.
- Those drawers from the sleep in?
- And everything in it is.
- Wyoming?
- Yeah.
- What, who does this?
How can you do this?
- That's why they built a few of these,
how big is that town?
- Who's building it?
- China.
- Just to bring new people in, old churches?
- I think rich people, it looks like.
Yeah, what is it, can you give me some information on it?
- So you can live in China, but be in America?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Just be in America.
- Ah, property taxes.
- Jackson Hole, China is a resort town on the border between Huaylai County ZangYaukau,
wedged between Taihang and Yan Mountain Ranges.
And architecture is designed by the town, Jackson, Wyoming.
- Is it skiing there?
- Mmm.
- Damn.
- I don't know, let us see some of that information.
- Cowboy bar?
- The Thousand Single Home Development used stock Western home plans from an
architect in Oregon.
Adding designs, reminiscent of Billy the Kid, Geronimo, Stagecoast Station, Big
Bear, etc.
- Cow hut, antlers, chandeliers, saddle blankets, all this stuff.
- Wagon wheels, Navajo rugs, iron light fixtures, wildlife scene, fireplace
screens.
This is a whole place that's there.
The project was completed in 2009.
Lu Yang Yang, the developer of the community, said his selling point was more
than architecture.
His buyers wanted freedom and spirituality, so he built a Christian church in
the center of the community for residents.
According to Smith, the properties have sold out and nearly tripled in value
since being built as the first model was put up in Beijing Park for display.
People apparently went nuts for it.
- Damn, I should have invested in Chinese real estate.
- I know.
- Damn, I invested in Palisades.
- God.
- Wow.
That's pretty cool.
- Yeah.
- Replica Town.
That's like Saudi shit.
- Just interesting.
And they have a few of them.
I think there's China space.
- Made to be like Venice, the canals?
- Yep, replicas of Paris, London, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, just interesting.
- What?
Wait, wait, wait, up right there.
Hold on.
That's in China?
They have an Eiffel Tower in China?
- Oh yeah, they do it all.
'Cause they're like, we have so much land, we have so many expendable souls
that we can use to do construction.
- Yeah.
- Why not just build it here, that way you don't have to go somewhere?
- Dude, I have a map in my studio for my travel podcast.
And it's in China, you see all the cities on the right side of it, and then as
it goes left, there's just nothing.
There's an occasional dot of a city.
And I'm like, what's all of this?
- Yeah.
- I think I should have looked it up by now, but...
- What's out there?
- Yeah, like, what the fuck?
- Yeah, I think they're just...
- What's in central China?
- That's a good question.
- There's just no reports from there?
Is that where they're keeping all the people who talk back?
- What's in central China?
I saw some Korean people yesterday.
- Is that how they teach people to butt on the subway before you get a chance
to get off?
- Is that what they do?
- Yeah, they do.
They don't understand, though.
Like, we get off first, then you get on.
- Oh, they get off first.
- They just get on.
They just push on.
Elevators, too.
Like, let me get out first.
- Oh, they say it's up to you.
- Yeah, it's like you didn't go for it.
Thank you.