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What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, or something like that 
That telescope is a nice metaphor for the trajectories of the US and China. The Arecibo Telescope was similar. Built in Puerto Rico on indigenous land and against locals' wishes, it was eventually abandoned to decay there, defunct. No cleanup. It's just there, slowly collapsing, a danger to anyone that would tread on it. The local population has never been compensated. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, on the other hand, was built recently by China, is larger, is fully functional, and just plain performs better. It incurred the relocation of the people there to nearby towns, but they were very well-compensated, and in fact the costs for relocation were greater than building the telescope itself. They moved from villages without running water or electricity to nice apartments.
Is there a source for this?
The articles I originally read were Chinese language (translated to English using Google Translate) and I'm having trouble finding them now.
Looking up more info about Pingtang county will probably yield more good info.