The United States currently faces a housing shortage, which is aggravating efforts to reduce high living costs and rampant homelessness. At the same time, China is trying to cope with exactly the opposite situation: a 20% vacancy rate in its housing causing or reflecting major economic problems.

Would it be possible for these two problems to help solve each other? How about inviting retired Americans and those who can work remotely to live in the surplus Chinese housing.

Properly arranged, such a program could benefit both countries as well as the Americans who decided to live in China for the time being.

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