> The Chinese government can easily use its authority to tell the average Chinese to eat it up. In theory, so could the US government. It has done exactly that

> The Chinese government can easily use its authority to tell the average Chinese to eat it up. In theory, so could the US government. It has done exactly that before on a smaller scale. It would do it for housing too if it were deemed a good solution to the problem. I expect what you are implying is that Americans lack confidence in that being a good solution to something on a grandiose scale, like the housing situation, to see it though? That is something that appears to be true. But then why would the Chinese people have that confidence? The authority can tell anything it wants, but without the confidence of the people it isn't going to go anywhere.