• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Ah well my cynicism was unwarranted and I should have more than skimmed the article. Thanks for the clarification.

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      7 months ago

      Well it’s also important to note that western media is intentionally not reporting on this properly and putting what I said as remarks at the end of articles. There’s two reasons for this.

      1. This has never happened before. Countries usually just bail out their property developers and hope they’ll build cheaper housing. IE USA Circa 2008. So we really don’t know what the outcome of this is. Wall St of course hates this and is terrified of this. I mean if it works and other countries follow suit in the future, what would that mean for all the Wall St. billionaires.

      2. Obviously the usual China bad narrative. The west really really doesn’t want any Chinese actions to be viewed in a positive light.

      So here’s a Korean article that explains it better and isn’t as influenced by western media.

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/xi-jinping-s-socialist-solution-china-s-response-to-the-real-estate-crisis/ar-BB1iDuXM

      The key take away point is, stop believing US media, it’s absolutely shit propaganda. I’m not saying China is good, hell I agree with the Koreans that this might not work, but for the love of god don’t believe USA.