Forest City was an audacious new city project created by Country Garden, one of China’s top property developers and it was the largest Chinese urban investment outside of China. Located in Malaysian territorial waters off the coast of the Malay Peninsula between Johor and Singapore, Forest City intended to be a new ‘city’ being built from scratch on four artificial islands designed to accommodate nearly one million people. Started in 2016, it should have had a geopolitical function in China’s aim to expand its economic and political influence and, although it has been awarded many green design certifications and it was initially presented to the market as “a dream paradise for all mankind”, Forest City is actually a ghost town. The eco-rhetoric of a model city of the future raised a lot of criticism and it didn't manage to cover the economics speculation and the greenwashing accusations. Today, just over 1% of the development is estimated to be inhabited and the few residents are completely abandoned in a no-man's-land of deserted streets and empty stores, unable to re-sell or leave their property because no one wants to live there. Nevertheless, the developer insists that the current situation is just “noise” and that the project's operations continue as usual, also with plans to include Forest City in a new special economic zone between Malaysia and neighboring Singapore. At the moment, the fate of what was supposed to be one of the most expensive urban projects is still unclear and there are many questions to be answered about the real assets and the financial support of the Chinese government to Country Garden, the strategic position of the area and the idea of an effective multi-scalar politics of urban greening and green infrastructure.