Hong Kong authorities’ implementation of the National Security Law has been expanding in scope and strictness, with broader language used to describe alleged violations and harsh interpretations of individual cases. As civil...
Chinese telecom giant Huawei retaliated against criminal charges from the U.S. this week with a...
The following article has been reposted from Project Sinopsis, with permission: Lawfare by proxy:...
China’s rulers unequivocally see the country’s legal system as an instrument of power. Those...
The Party’s Fourth Plenum last month laid out its vision of a “Socialist rule of...
Like the fall of Bo Xilai before it, last week’s announcement of a disciplinary investigation into...
Having described his eight-and-a-half hour detention last week to The New York Times’ Edward...
In a pair of posts at The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi examines signs of a drive to regulate the...
When the South China Morning Post reported this month that a key upcoming Party meeting would...
In a three-part conversation with China Law and Policy’s Elizabeth M. Lynch, the Chinese...
Several sources have told the South China Morning Post that this year’s Party Central...
At China Real Time, Stanley Lubman comments that the recent trials of Xu Zhiyong and other New...
With the 3rd Plenum of the 18th CCP Congress less than month away, Yu Zhengsheng, the No.4 member...
A State Council white paper on China’s legal system raised eyebrows last month by proclaiming the country’s “comparatively complete legal system to protect human rights”. Stanley Lubman looks at topics...
At China Law & Policy, Elizabeth M. Lynch contrasts Professor Don Clarke’s recent essay about the Jasmine crackdown and China’s legal system with Li Tiantian’s explanation of her three-month disappearance,...
From the Wall Street Journal: As the 30-year anniversary of China’s reform and opening draws near, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong Thursday hosted China legal expert extraordinaire Jerome Cohen, who discussed the...
Wang Lixiong is an author and independent thinker lives in Beijing. He published following essay on Boxun.com, translated by CDT: On the one hand the country must “stick to the Party’s leadership”, and on the...
From The New York Times: Judge Li Huijuan happened to be in the courthouse file room when clerks, acting on urgent orders, began searching for a ruling on a mundane case about seed prices. “I handled that case,” Judge Li told the clerks, surprised that anyone would be interested. Li Huijuan, then an idealistic student, […]
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