After my last post on Chinese acquittal rates, I heard from Prof. David Johnson of the University of Hawai‘i (whose…
I’ve been looking through a recent massive collection of Chinese court statistics going from 1949 to 2016 (人民法院司法统计历史典籍) (“People’s Court…
The latest Ping’an China Small-Group re-erects the stability maintenance steering machine that had grown significantly under Zhou Yongkang but was…
Given the recent controversies with the World Health Organization (WHO) and China, people have been wondering about China’s influence over…
Many lawyers, after their “non-release release,” are subjected to a form of an additional sentence, “a suspension from life”—they, and…
The lawsuit filed by the Missouri attorney-general against various Chinese entities seeking compensation for COVID-19-related damages, unlike previous similar lawsuits,…
I’m very pleased to have signed up Dr. Yu-Jie Chen as a co-blogger. Yu-Jie, who will join the Academia Sinica…
[Revised March 11, 2020 to remove repetitious material. My thanks to an alert reader.] Here is a blockbuster report from…
Caixin recently published a good piece on COVID-19; consistent with the Chinese government’s attitude toward good information about this disease,…
“Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, east, west, south, north, and center, the party leads everything” – Chinese Communist Party,…