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Um, the US government can do that too? I'm not aware of any government that doesn't hold eminent domain powers.

• Baeocystin 8y ago
  China's method of eminent domain is a bit more... forceful than you might be thinking. Source: lived in China
• carlivar 8y ago
  Ah, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Dodger Stadium was built by razing a poor but cultural neighborhood and it is now considered to have been unethically done. But it was fast...
  • wolfgke 8y ago
    > Ah, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Which sounds like a very inefficient court system to me.
    • carlivar 8y ago
      I'm not sure I want speedy government takeover of land.
      • wolfgke 8y ago
        But I want faster trials. If it fails, it should fail fast. If it succeeds, it should succeed fast.
        • carlivar 8y ago
          I suppose I cannot argue with that. Many different slow things probably have this same root cause.
• kochikame 8y ago
  The UK government has to go through lengthy rounds of consulting with local citizens, groups, other interested parties in order to build anything like this. Building a new runway at Heathrow took so long because of years and years of consultations and negotiations. China doesn't have to do that.