Prostitutes blamed for property bulge from Asia Times reports that China's housing bubble is being blamed on prostitutes - at least this is the spin that China's Communist media mouthpieces are putting forth - and if the girls are rounded up – housing prices will magically resume more realistic levels.
Prostitution is illegal in China, but the police crackdowns recently launched across the country indicate that the "world's oldest profession" is doing as well as ever. In Beijing, there are reportedly so many xiaojie (mistresses) that state media claim their numbers have driven up housing prices.
After efforts to "physically and spiritually" cleanse Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, prostitution has made a big comeback, so much so that municipal police launched a citywide "strike hard" vice crackdown in April entitled "Operation 4.11".
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