The property transfer going on in China today is the Chinese government's way of legalizing their theft of their citizens’ land. The government has declared all land outside city limits as their own to negotiate deals with companies as they choose. So if, by chance, they get a decent offer by a commercial company looking to develop on land occupied by current citizens, then the government has authority to transfer the tenants elsewhere and hand over the land to the developer without giving the knowledge to the tenants. I am deeply aggravated by the happenings of land transfers. It is not right, in any way, that the government is able to conduct business like this and still get away with it. I feel infuriated for the Chinese citizens who are held in their homes by law and then suddenly have that all taken away from them without notice. Like Dodson said when he was offered the chance to take land, if he didn’t, the next developer would. The fact that the government is that willing to hand over the property of real, living people who have built homes and lives there is just repulsive. I cannot believe that these land transfers are somehow legal.
Haley Martin
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