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

November 27, 2019 Donald Clarke

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

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Posted in: International relations, Miscellaneous, Politics

On Nazi comparisons

May 30, 2019 Donald Clarke 4 Comments

On a China-related internet discussion group of which I’m a member, there was recently an exchange about the appropriateness of…

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Posted in: Law, Politics

Xi Jinping’s Succession: What Did the West Get Wrong?

May 24, 2019 Ling Li

What would happen if Xi Jinping suddenly died, killed by assassination or incurable illness? Would such an unexpected departure of…

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Posted in: History, Politics Filed under: Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping, elite politics, succession, Xi Jinping

Party Rules 101 – Are all Party Committees the same? Answer is NO.

April 25, 2019 Ling Li

Explaining Party rules gives me the strange gratification of feeling like a lawyer that I have never felt when dealing…

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Posted in: Law, Politics Filed under: Chinese Communist Party, Party law

Backstory of China’s Anticorruption Supervision Commission

April 24, 2019 Ling Li

When I wrote the paper The Rise of Party Commission of Discipline & Inspection (1927-2012) three years ago, I thought…

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Posted in: History, Law, Politics Filed under: anti-corruption, Chinese Communist Party

China’s death-threat diplomacy

January 14, 2019 Donald Clarke

Last week I wrote about China’s hostage diplomacy. Now the Chinese government has forced me to use a new headline.…

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Posted in: Law, Politics Filed under: Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, Schellenberg

First they came for the Canadians…

December 17, 2018 Donald Clarke 3 Comments

I have just published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the cases of detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael…

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Posted in: International relations, Law, Politics Filed under: Huawei, Meng Wanshou, Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor

Jiang Shigong on Xi Jinping and socialism with Chinese characteristics: an empty vessel

May 28, 2018 Donald Clarke 1 Comment

Jiang Shigong (强世功) is a distinguished professor at Peking University’s Faculty of Law and a smart guy. Over the last…

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Posted in: Politics Filed under: Jiang Shigong

China Enters the Counter-Reform Era

April 13, 2018 Carl Minzner

Thanks to Don for inviting me to join his blogging effort!  Below, I’ll lay out my argument that China is…

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Posted in: History, Politics

Critical theory in the service of authoritarianism

January 26, 2018 Donald Clarke

Just saw this wonderful tweet from Chris Buckley. Dang, wish I had said that! But seriously: using the language of…

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