In a notable break from his customary ad nauseam attacks on the “Chinese communists,” Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson praised China on two points in an Aug. 31 TV segment.
“When the Chinese government does something virtuous — it doesn’t happen much — well we’re willing to say so,” he said on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
The first “virtuous” step: Carlson approved of China’s decision in mid-August to stop accepting registrations for private equity funds raising money to invest in residential real estate.
“As the Chinese government put it: houses are for living in, not for speculation. That’s a very good point. They may have learned it from watching, say, the state of California,” said Carlson. He observed that the median price of a house in California is $800,000, and that homelessness there is “totally out of control. The Chinese don’t want to copy that model.”
