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To circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers. (lemmy.nz)
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/gold-bars-used-to-lure-chinese-homebuyers-amid-market-slowdown

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It's usual for the western social media to point out anecdotal occurings and then project it on entire country as normality.

this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Damn, that's interesting!

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