Dodson Chapter 3 Response

Dodson explains to the reader that because the Communist Party represents the people of China, they assume that they have control over the land that the people own. Because of this, China doesn’t really have complete private land ownership, or any laws to prevent the government to control it. Instead, the people lease land for around 50-75 years, and the land outside of the cities is considered to be agricultural land. The main problem discussed in Chapter 3 is that the government has been transferring land that is supposed to be used for agricultural reasons, over to commercial use without asking or consulting with the tenants. There are rules set in place that they must go through national level authorities to get approval for such thing. However, local government and property developers have found ways around that to seize the land without proper approval. On top this, local officials often pocket most of the money and cheat the tenant out of their profit.

Personally, I think this is very wrong. Some people work really hard to be able to afford land and luxuries in general. It is not fair that someone has the power to rob you of that, and then not even have enough respect for you to make a small profit for you.