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China’s latest ‘nail house’ cuts off traffic on multi-lane highway

The latest example of a “nail house” in western China has reduced a multi-lane highway in the capital of Sichuan province to just a single line of traffic. Nail houses – isolated holdouts whose owners refuse to accept compensation from developers – have become a divisive issue in Chinese media. Online, commentators line up to either praise […]