Huawei and the Law, in U.S. and China
Chinese telecom giant Huawei retaliated against criminal charges from the U.S. this week with a...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 8, 2019
Chinese telecom giant Huawei retaliated against criminal charges from the U.S. this week with a...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 12, 2019
The following article has been reposted from Project Sinopsis, with permission: Lawfare by proxy:...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2016
China’s rulers unequivocally see the country’s legal system as an instrument of power. Those...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 5, 2014
The Party’s Fourth Plenum last month laid out its vision of a “Socialist rule of...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 8, 2014
Like the fall of Bo Xilai before it, last week’s announcement of a disciplinary investigation into...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 18, 2014
Having described his eight-and-a-half hour detention last week to The New York Times’ Edward...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 15, 2014
In a pair of posts at The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi examines signs of a drive to regulate the...
by Samuel Wade | May 27, 2014
When the South China Morning Post reported this month that a key upcoming Party meeting would...
by Samuel Wade | May 14, 2014
In a three-part conversation with China Law and Policy’s Elizabeth M. Lynch, the Chinese...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2014
Several sources have told the South China Morning Post that this year’s Party Central...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 4, 2014
At China Real Time, Stanley Lubman comments that the recent trials of Xu Zhiyong and other New...
by 不忘初心 | Oct 29, 2013
With the 3rd Plenum of the 18th CCP Congress less than month away, Yu Zhengsheng, the No.4 member...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 22, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | May 30, 2011
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,...
by Xiao Qiang | Dec 4, 2008
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...
by Xiao Qiang | Apr 11, 2007
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...
by Xiao Qiang | Nov 28, 2005
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, […]
by Sophie Beach | Sep 23, 2005
From the Miami Herald: One of the most exciting developments in China is the rising awareness at the grass-roots level that ordinary people have legal rights. Chinese law has long been used as a tool to help the Communist Party control the people; call it rule by law, not rule of law. But the country’s […]