What if France is making a backup copy of itself in China?

An email arrived this morning from IFTF’s Jason Tester with the subject header: “What if France is making a backup copy of itself in China?”

The email contained a link to a post on Super Colossal titled: “China: USB External HD to the French.”

The scenario, laid out by Super Colossal, is this:

• In the town of Tianducheng in Zhejiang province, the Chinese people are hard at work replicating French architecture, complete with its own Eiffel Tower clone.
• So the Chinese are copying instead of innovating again, nothing new right?
• But what if France, not China, was responsible for this construction.
• What if France was backing itself up, physically, just in case?

Thanks to Reuters/Aly Song for the great photograph.