Law, Stability and Sliding Reform
New York University law professor Jerome Cohen argues that China’s efforts to build soft power are doomed to failure by its use of the criminal justice system as an instrument of political repression. This tendency seems likely to continue in spite of legal reforms. Cohen cites the cases of fig ...
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PRC police will probably continue to insist that they are not governed by legal procedure, and can detain anyone for as long as they want or are ordered to. One PSB officer once shouted at a rights-defending Chinese lawyer: “Do you know where you are?! This is Communist Party territory.” Meaning that legal procedure is nothing compared to CCP edicts and directives, no matter how far they may stray from the constitution and the law.