China’s growth engine has a weird new spark: buying ‘feelings’ to cope with a property crash

Toy elves and robot police are exposing the bizarre true state of China’s fractured economy.

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According to MarketWatch’s source item, China’s growth engine has a weird new spark: buying ‘feelings’ to cope with a property crash, Toy elves and robot police are exposing the bizarre true state of China’s fractured economy.

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