China Property Standoff

Chinese developers’ workers demolish the house of a Beijing family that’s been fighting eviction for more than five years, while at least two people remained inside of the home, in Beijing, China Friday April 20, 2007. Property disputes and illegal land grabs have accelerated recently as China’s economy expands at double-digit rates and farmland is gobbled up for industrial parks and skyscrapers. Government officials often have sided with developers, touching off riots and protests. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)