Chinese Farmers Fight Back Against State Controls
So far at the 18th Party Congress, observers have found few signs that point to substantial political reforms under the new leadership. But while Chinese political insiders debate the merits of reforming the system from the top, USA Today interviews a number of farmers who are trying to make smaller ...
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Thank you for not labeling these Chinese farmers with the demeaning serf-like term “peasants”! The Heilongjiang farmers and the human-right lawyer representing them are correct to be protesting against the extortionate fees that Party officials have been charging them for use of party-state-owned land. The Party-state as nationwide landlord has become far more exploitative than the pre-1949 rural landlords excoriated in Party diatribes over the years. When did those pre-1949 landlords ever expropriate farmland on the scale we have witnessed in the PRC over the past decade?