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…
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,…
[Revised March 11, 2020 to remove repetitious material. My thanks to an alert reader.] Here is a blockbuster report from…
It is difficult to overstate the egregiousness of the Chinese government’s latest move against Gui Minhai, the Swedish writer and…
Li Wenliang is the doctor who first began spreading word of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan (through a WeChat group)…
Robert Lewis, an experienced China lawyer now Senior International Counsel at the Zhong Lun law firm, gave an interesting talk…
That sound you hear is the sigh of contentment upon seeing all my prejudices confirmed. Hey, I’m only human. But…