China Approves Seizure of Private Homes-(... censored ...)

ap ^ | 8/31/07 | ap

[Flavius]

BEIJING (AP) -- China's top legislature has adopted a measure allowing the government to seize private homes on state-owned land, as long as owners are compensated and properly resettled, state media reported Thursday.

Government seizure of private property has been a controversial issue as China prepares to host the Beijing Olympics next year. Some activists has accused Beijing of forcing more than 1 million people from their homes to make way for new sports venues.

[Flavius]

nice people

[goldstategop]

Eminent domain.... its a new issue for China. In the old days, the state would have just seized private property without compensation. So its progress of a sort.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AlphaOneAlpha]

Apparently China is catching up to the U.S. by adopting their own version of an Eminent Domain law.

[sergeantdave]

“China’s top legislature has adopted a measure allowing the government to seize private homes on state-owned land...”

China is progressing, but hasn’t caught up to the United Fascist States yet and seize homes on private property and give the property to the knighted mandarin class.

Perhaps China can leap ahead of us and adopt an oriental version of Himmler’s solution to the eastern occupied territories.

[BuffaloJack]

Amazing !
China is instituting the super socialist concept of “Eminent Domain”, while we’ve had it for years and want to get rid of it.

[em2vn]

“....seize private homes on state-owned land,...”
There is no other type of land in a communist country. Red china is no exception.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

We have that here too.

[Nuc1]

Who know they were monitoring the SCOTUS.

Let me get this straight, a former communist gang state cannot take a person’s property at will? Right.

[ponder life]

The use of eminent domain is necessary to build much needed infrastructure. In Shanghai, thousands of people are moved routinely as needed in order to build their subway system.

As a result, by 2020, Shanghai is projected to have the world's largest subway system. Even larger than either New York, London and Tokyo subway system. It is public opposition, and usually by a small handful, that derails or severely delays large infrastructure projects and run up costs.