China’s annual Two Sessions political meetings recently drew to a close, minus the presence of National People’s Congress (NPC) Chairman Zhao Leji, the nation’s third most senior official. (Zhao’s unexpected absence was...
This year’s “Two Sessions,” which concluded on March 11, were more Party-choreographed than ever, as evidenced by the elimination of the premier’s customary post-NPC press conference, the weakening of the State Council via a...
A new draft patriotic education law submitted last week to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee is spurring spirited online debate. Broad in scope, the draft law includes provisions for the role of Chinese...
On the eve of the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Chief Executive Carrie Lam addressed the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council: “[The law] will only target an extremely small minority of...
Shuanggui, or “dual designation,” is an opaque and reportedly brutal system of secret...
Amendments to China’s new Cybersecurity Law, which is set to take effect on June 1, will require a...
After beginning the third reading of the draft last week, the National People’s Congress...
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Monday began the third and...
On December 27, China’s National People’s Congress passed the nation’s first...
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has expressed concern over...
Thursday marks, among other things, the end of the public consultation period on China’s...
The text below is a proposal by 30 Chinese lawyers to the National People’s Congress for the...
Incoming president Xi Jinping has pledged to uphold the constitution and rule of law in China. But, as Stanley Lubman points out in a post on the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time, this is a complicated prospect given...
From Xinhua: China’s top legislature approved the Tort Law Saturday, after four readings since 2002. The 92-provision law covers liabilities for a range of circumstances, including traffic accidents, medical accidents,...
From Xinhua: China’s top legislature began deliberating final revisions of the draft Tort Law Tuesday, including civil liabilities of construction firms in buildings safety. The draft law, which was designed to provide...
From Xinhua: China’s top legislature will consider a draft resolution on climate change and a draft amendment to its renewable energy law at a bimonthly session scheduled from August 24 to 27, according to the legislative...
From Xinhua: China’s draft law on the mediation and arbitration of rural land contract disputes was submitted Monday for a third reading by lawmakers. The proposed law has been revised since its second draft. In the third...
From China Daily: Government officials may soon need to think twice before plugging their flash-disks loaded with State secrets into unsecured computers. They will likely come under tighter surveillance to prevent leaks of...
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