Eviction

In China, the term is beloved by netizens who use it when surfacing the absurd in political and social phenomena they witness daily.

The protests in Feijia, a village in Beijing’s northeastern Chaoyang district, follow a controversial clean-up campaign that began after an apartment block fire killed 19 people last month, the South China Morning Post reports.

Beijing’s mass evictions of migrants cast a chill over Xi’s lofty equality goals.

Land seizures, driven by soaring prices and a push for urban expansion, have been a major source of popular discontent in China, often resulting in violent stand-offs between officials and the public.