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

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

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Backstory of China’s Anticorruption Supervision Commission

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

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Huawei’s ownership: Huawei’s statement and my response

A paper on Huawei’s ownership structure recently posted by Christopher Balding and me has elicited a response from Huawei and…

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Dagong bond rating agency taken over after licenses suspended

The Financial Times reports that the Dagong bond rating agency has been taken over by a state-owned investment company after…

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Who Owns Huawei?

Christopher Balding and I have just written a short paper on this question. Spoiler alert: not the employees.

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Workshop for PhD students in Europe researching Chinese law

I have received the following announcement: On 24 May 2019, the China-EU School of Law Consortium Office, at Universität Hamburg,…

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The Zhong Lun declaration to the FCC on Huawei’s obligations under Chinese law

Last May, two attorneys from the Zhong Lun law firm submitted a declaration to the FCC in support of Huawei’s…

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Trade agreements versus memoranda of understanding

Given the recent public contretemps between Donald Trump and USTR Robert Lighthizer over the difference between a memorandum of understanding…

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Introducing two new co-bloggers

It’s my pleasure to welcome two new co-bloggers here: Ling Li and Nils Pelzer. Ling is a Lecturer in the…

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Get $45,000 to study Chinese for a year: National Bureau of Asian Research Chinese Language Fellowship

I quote from the announcement: The Chinese Language Fellowship Program (CLFP) is a nationwide initiative designed to support American PhD…

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