If you have always thought the Chinese government is evil, the SCMP video report below is your confirmation.
'Well, well, well..." as the bishop is fond of saying.
With fake and slanted news flying thick and thin these days though, as competing geopolitical agendas push their wares, I have learned to reserve my judgement.
And sure enough, the comments left by quite a few to the SCMP piece might be enlightening.
Let me just quote a few of the SCMP's viewers comments:
Li Kevin
This place is a gov subsidies (sic) housing for the talented. This building (sic) is pretty much empty with around 12 household (sic) living in the entire building, so it was chosen to use as an isolation facility for covid patients. The tenants were notified and plan (sic) to relocate them temporary to another gov housing also rent free. Most of them agreed on the 12th, but on the 14th some of them wanted to get higher compensation. Journalist should do their job to investigate the situation, not just report 1 side, but both sides so we can all know the whole picture.
Wang Yaozeng
According to my information, the people in the video did not own the properties. However, they (39 people) were forcibly evicted after their landlords decides (sic) to turn their properties to guarantee (sic) places and ended their rental contracts on Apr.12, giving them only 2 days to evict the building. Although they were allocated to some other buildings in the same community, it is intolerable to see such open defiance of rental contracts.
Alex Gang
These are not private residential homes. These are government built and owned apartments that are leased out super cheap to the tech workers as part of the program to attract talents. But the tech workers sub-leased them to people who pay twice the price because they can send their kids to a very great school nearby. The whole sublease violates the leasing contract. These people don’t want to move because they are afraid of this being found out and couldn’t move back. The government relocate the people to other apartments free of rent for half of a year which most people are happy with.
Those are the comments the SCMP (South China Morning Post) should response to, either to admit or deny.
The SCMP was more balanced and circumspect in its reports and news coverage when it was owned by Malaysian Robert Kuok but not quite so (?) after it had been sold to Jack Ma's group of companies.
Jack Ma is the same guy who was duly reminded of his place by the Chinese government when he began to let his successes get to his head and thought the world of himself.
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