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by seanmcdirmid
7 days ago
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Uhm, China is a bunch of local jurisdictions with wildly different polices and details. So even in the same province, the rules between different cities could be different, hmm, often there are differences even in cities if they have rural areas. Here is the nytimes article about the Wenzhou leases, they were 20 years (I got that detail wrong): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/business/china-wenzhou-la... China did forced evictions back in the 90s and they were received very poorly, so they whiplashed in the other direction of never doing forced evictions. Western media just focuses on the former though, not the corrections. I am as much as a critic about China as I defend it. Its problems are overbuilding, the hukou system is still trash, no property tax that would discourage speculation and empty apartments, etc… But property rights are still strong, the government feels it’s very important, and development occurs at a rapid clip, the China I left 10 years ago is already very different and no longer as poor. |
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