New regulations on designation of carriers of intangible cultural heritage

China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has just promulgated regulations on how to go about the official designation of particular…

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Kovrig/Spavor cases forwarded to procuracy

Just yesterday (Dec. 9) I wrote about the Kovrig/Spavor cases, noting that the deadline for the police to forward the…

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Kovrig/Spavor timetable

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Both were formally arrested (逮捕) apparently…

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NPCSC opens online platform for requests to review substatutory documents

Here’s a very informative post on this at the NPC Observer blog.

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The Wang Liqiang spy/defector story: real or fake?

Apologies for the last post, which went out without a title.

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The Wang Liqiang spy/defector story: real or fake?

Wang Liqiang is a Chinese national now in Australia who recently went to the Australian press (here, The Age) to…

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Amazing resource for Chinese judicial statistics now available at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress now has a huge collection of Chinese judicial statistics (人民法院司法统计历史典籍) covering 1949 to 2016. The bibliographic…

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More secret Xinjiang documents revealed

Hot on the heels of last week’s blockbuster exposé of secret Xinjiang documents in the New York Times, the International…

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Hong Kong mask regulation case: the Legislative Affairs Commission strikes back

The Legislative Affairs Commission (LAC) of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) has issued a statement (Xinhua report in…

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Hong Kong High Court decision invalidating mask ban

On November 18, 2019, the High Court of Hong Kong (Court of First Instance) rendered a judgment on a challenge…

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