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@Liumingke: Do you really think of foreigners in China being in a situation of us vs. them?
Either you're joking or paranoid.
Relocations can be good or bad; when Power decides they must be forced, it should be a wake-up call that Power has been, and is still, doing something wrong.
Outlet for train/bus tickets just across bridge from north end of Wenhua Xiang - go there, show passport, buy ticket, get it immediately.
I.e.: Absolute private/group ownership is only a concept; doesn't exist in the real world, where what 'ownership' means is always a matter of some compromise between common agreement concerning use rights, on the one hand, and concentrated power on the other. Nice when the compromise is accurately and clearly specified in law, and the law is enforced, though - which seems not to be what happened in John Israel's case.
Then we can decide what to do about, e.g., 19th century Alabama laws, or any laws about ownership.
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I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
Yunnan man shoots friend in testicle to prove prowess with guns
Posted byEnough of that, lemonlover.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byThey are?
Interview: Kunming entrepreneur Mimane Musa
Posted byAnd not just 'westerners', 'white' or otherwise.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byNote that the article seems to indicate that anti-illegal-drug efforts are most concerned with transportation, production & use of amphetamines and heroin. I've heard little about anti-marijuana efforts, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
In interview, Yunnan Party chief stresses ending poverty
Posted by@Geogramatt: Another possibility might be to ask the people concerned, who have this poverty problem now, about what they think might be usefully done, rather than make them wait 25 years, but that would involve a level of transparency and consultation that I rather doubt would be permitted, since the officials concerned are no doubt quite sure that they know better. It would also probably require an admission that the villages, properly speaking, belong to the inhabitants.
As for the generation passing peacefully: might be difficult after all the young people leave.