expropriation

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As directors of the company Mr. Lai founded, Next Digital, we saw expropriation up close.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Refineries and other assets of foreign companies were seized; the government paid Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell $1 billion each for the expropriation, well below the value of their holdings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

South Africa has previously said that Trump has misunderstood the country's new land expropriation act.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

There will no doubt be some inconveniences at first, but matters will soon be righted in a society which has adopted expropriation.

From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz