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Give us our flats! The angry victims of China's property crisis

Dec 03, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : China's largest city has a sophisticated court system, with some of the country's best lawyers and judges who are well versed in commercial law.
43% : They are in good company: a group of dissident netizens began collecting data on boycotts across China in June 2022, revealing that tens of thousands of people had stopped paying as a form of protest.
41% : Just months after he bought his flat, the Chinese government introduced a raft of policies designed to cool an overheating property market.
32% : The only channel for talks has been at the lowest level of government, a "petition office" close to One Riviera where local residents can complain about everything from noisy neighbours to small-scale corruption.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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