USCC hearing May 4th on “Rule by Law: China’s Increasingly Global Legal Reach”

I and several other folks from the Chinese law world will be testifying tomorrow (May 4th) before the U.S.-China Economic…

Continue Reading →

China adopts restrictive theory of foreign state immunity

In a major change from its long-standing position, China’s draft law on foreign state immunity adopts what’s called the restrictive…

Continue Reading →

Zhang Jun: the new President of China’s Supreme People’s Court

Below is a guest post introducing Zhang Jun written by Grace (Yu) Mou of the Department of Law of the…

Continue Reading →

Are Chinese courts out to nab Western technology? Comments from an expert

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal answered the above question in the affirmative. I assumed upon starting to…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

What the Bao Fan disappearance tells us about China’s legal system

It’s being reported that Bao Fan (包凡), the chairman and CEO of China Renaissance, has disappeared. (Here’s the announcement from…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

Texas bill to ban purchase of real estate by Chinese: some unintended consequences?

Texas state senator Lois Kolkhorst (R) has proposed to the state senate a bill that would ban “the purchase of…

Continue Reading →

Is China a dual state?

Is China a dual state in the sense of Ernst Fraenkel’s conception? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

European Court of Human Rights effectively bars all extraditions to China

On Oct. 6, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision, Liu v. Poland, that effectively bars states…

Continue Reading →

The Tangshan gang verdict: some comments

Today’s news carries reports that a court in Langfang, Hebei Province, has sentenced 28 gang members to a range of…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Law

Big mistakes in the editing of Cai Xia’s article in “Foreign Affairs”

Foreign Affairs has let down Cai Xia in both its editing and its translation of her piece on Xi Jinping…

Continue Reading →