[dixie_land]

Here's one from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/893113807/china-speeds-up-dri...

and simple Google searches yield many results.

Undoubtedly some people greatly benefited from the land purchase, when such offers are made. I've also heard of stories (friend of a friend kinda, I do not directly know one) of people actually getting rich (not middle class, like rich rich) by having properties in areas that the government happens to like. (more so in suburbs of big cities like Shanghai or Shenzhen)

However the point is even one forced eviction is one too many and the people who come out better for it (good for them) does not justify the poor treatment of people who simply dare to say no to the communist party.

[winrid]

Well, I've had cops break into my house in the US and mace my sister and I when we were little. So, I won't say I stand on much of a high ground here in the US. But yes, local governments in China should do better with this kind of thing.

[kortilla]

That’s not the same thing at all unless the cops also stole your house and never let you return.

[nosianu]

Like asset seizure?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seiz...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/s...

[sudosysgen]

The cops don't steal your house, they pay you for it, and it happens in literally every country in the world.

[vkou]

> However the point is even one forced eviction is one too many

People get evicted all the time, for all sorts of reasons that may not be their fault. Why do you draw the line at eminent domain?

[sudosysgen]

You don't get to simply say no to eminent domain in any functioning country in the world, and neither should you be able to. I don't see the problem as long as you are properly compensated.

[White_Wolf]

Saying no to just block a public infrastructure project is just malicious. As long as people are paid for a new property and inconvenience it's fine. Nobody should be able to block a project that benefits the society as a whole. Communist party or not, a person should not be capable of blocking a project that benefits the whole country just because <insert random reason here>.

Romania does have a lot of issues with motorway developments because of speciments like this. After the first major one that blocked the Bucharest-Constanta motorway for years, the gov't passed a law that allows them to just take the property and pay market prices. As it should be.