ILYA SOMIN: “As bad as things are with eminent domain in this country, it’s much worse in China.” To be fair, however, it sounds as if they’re expelling people from their property in order to actually build useful things, rather than simply to hand the property over to private developers — though given the level of corruption in China I wouldn’t call that impossible.
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