Appeal of Strategic Ambiguity on Party Centre – Reading the Party Directive on the Operation of the Central Committee (Part I)

[social_warfare] It is easy to dismiss the value of any written rules laid down by the Party because the latter…

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Recent USCIS Policy Alert regarding Communist Party membership: what’s new?

USCIS has adopted a policy that will make it easier to find aliens inadmissible on the grounds of Communist Party…

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“High quality” Uyghur labor traded on Baidu

Here’s a recent tweet from Prof. Timothy Grose. I’m posting the accompanying pictures below. “High quality” Uyghur labor virtually traded…

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Question for the media: Why won’t you touch forced organ harvesting?

I was struck by a news report yesterday from the Associated Press: “UK public tribunal to probe Uighur genocide allegations“.…

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Submission on the practice of extracting and broadcasting forced confessions before trial

A group of human rights organizations has made a submission today to various UN Special Procedures Working Groups and Special…

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Overreactions to the WeChat ban

The ban on WeChat will not cut people in the US off from their friends and family in China. They…

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Hong Kong and Xinjiang

It’s worth starting to think through the Hong Kong – Xinjiang comparison for understanding why what might be coming down…

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Amnesty International seeks Regional Director for East and Southeast Asia & the Pacific

Here’s the job announcement. Application deadline: Aug. 18.

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Joseph Raz letter to Tsinghua University president criticizing firing of Xu Zhangrun

Joseph Raz, perhaps the most distinguished living legal philosopher writing in English (or any language), has sent a letter to…

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Cultural Revolution, Again? What next approaching 2022?

A conversation between Carl Minzner and Ling Li   Carl Minzner and I discussed about what it might mean when…

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