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The Media and the Chinese Olympics

  • 22-11-2006 1:52pm
    #1
    silverharp
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    I've seen a few reports about families being displaced to build the venues without being given compensation. Will the media make a big deal about this in the run up, or would this spoil a good story?

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  • #2
    Hobbes
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    If they did it would be very old news. I was in China about 4 years or so ago and they had starting building places around then. If they were displaced it would of been before that.


  • #3
    Captain Corelli
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    Families are being displaced as we speak. Say you have a large block of lower class flats in a desirable/central district. First a large metal stand is erected between the flats and the street cutting it off from view. Then they are torn down. Once the flats are cut off from view, you kinda forget they're there.

    The western media probably won't make much of a fuss about it. In the greater scheme of things it's not that big a deal. As for the chinese media, well it's state controlled anyway.

    Foreigners cannot own land in China. If I remember correctly, citizans can't either; they can only lease it. I would venture a guess that the government is able to do what it does as it is within the law. The only problem with all this is that the displaced people aren't getting market value for what they lose.


  • #4
    Hobbes
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    Captain Corelli wrote:
    Families are being displaced as we speak. Say you have a large block of lower class flats in a desirable/central district. First a large metal stand is erected between the flats and the street cutting it off from view. Then they are torn down. Once the flats are cut off from view, you kinda forget they're there.

    Do you have a link to any articles on that?
    The only problem with all this is that the displaced people aren't getting market value for what they lose.

    How is that any different then a compulsory purchase order in Ireland?


  • #5
    Captain Corelli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Captain Corelli


    Hobbes wrote:
    Do you have a link to any articles on that?



    How is that any different then a compulsory purchase order in Ireland?


    http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=hutong+demolished+in+beijing&meta=

    There's some great photography in those links if you are into that.

    The compulsary purchase order in Ireland is there to make available for purchase any building thats purchase/redevelopment would be in the national interest. It does not apply as far as I'm aware to licenced premises. The same is not true for Beijing.

    In Beijing, the government does not need to purchase the land & building because it already owns the land. It should(debatable) give fair value for the building. Which it doesn't. I'm not making myself clear, but the difference is clear.

    Take for examply the Ballymun flats. People are being displaced and given better housing as the high density areas were causing problems. Large swathes of low income housing in Beijing are demolished, the residents are given nominal amounts of money, and they are ignored. Quite a difference.


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