"Some people's questioning cut even closer to the bone: why doesn't the Li family sell property at a discount to these 'masters of our future'? That is what will be truly good for Hong Kong."
High property prices, it said, are "undeniably one of the deep social roots" of the opposition to the extradition Bill that catalysed the ongoing unrest.
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