CHINA EMPTIED A CITY OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR THE G20 SUMMIT.

Removing all – or at least a huge swatch — of the city’s population is sort of the funhouse mirror version of the 1990s sci-fi film Dark City, when only the buildings got tuned at night: “It’s funny how Communism always winds up looking and operating like a dictatorship in practice. Thanks for the reminder, President Xi.”