Another giveaway of state assets to real estate developers

I just came across an interesting story about how the city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, aims to…

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Glenn Tiffert on China’s insidious digital censorship

Glenn Tiffert, a historian currently doing a post-doc at University of Michigan, has written a terrific paper [updated version from that originally…

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Debt hostages in China

Back in 2010, I did a blog post on debt hostages in China, highlighting the incredible situation of a government-run…

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Brazenly illegal perp parade in Guizhou

As part of their campaign to establish as “Rule-of-Law Bijie,” authorities in Qixingguan District of Bijie City in Guizhou Province…

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“We’ve gotta stop these boys from goin’ to the public!”

That’s a line from a South Park episode in which the good Father Maxi discovers what the other priests think…

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Lectures on Law of the Sea and sovereignty issues

My colleague Sean Murphy has recorded a series of lectures on international legal issues highly relevant to China’s sovereignty and…

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Some questions about the HNA Group

The HNA Group, a Chinese conglomerate that is the single biggest Chinese investor in the US, has been in the…

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Chinese Grammar Matters: A Response to Julian Ku

Prof. Julian Ku yesterday suggested on Lawfare (“Grammar Matters: Did China Really Declare that the Entire Sino-UK Joint Declaration is “Not…

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CECC hearing on China’s crackdown on human rights lawyers

Yesterday the Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a hearing on China’s crackdown on human rights lawyers. As of this writing,…

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Text of complaint in Caixin Media/Hu Shuli v. Guo Wengui

In late April, Caixin Media and Hu Shuli sued Guo Wengui in New York state court for defamation and other…

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