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The US-China Joint Statement released on Nov. 17th contains the following language (emphasis added):
The United States and China underlined that each country and its people have the right to choose their own path, and all countries should respect each other’s choice of a development model. Both sides recognized that the United States and China have differences on the issue of human rights. Addressing these differences in the spirit of equality and mutual respect, as well as promoting and protecting human rights consistent with interna
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has three openings, two of which are for analysts: candidates who have a background or strong interest in (a) criminal procedure, courts, police, and prisons, or (b) labor issues and civil society. It's also seeking a press secretary/external relations coordinator. The full announcements are below. Please note two things:
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I've recently started following
(and recommend) the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time
Report blog. The other day it
reported on a new rule of avoidance promulgated by the China
Securities Regulatory Commission. Officials who leave the CSRC
cannot work for regulated parties for a period of three years
(senior officials) or two years (others) (Chinese
source
Wentong Zheng of SUNY Buffalo Law School is doing a series of posts on China's Antimonopoly Law over at the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog. Here's what he's done so far:
Two years ago I blogged about the gerrymandered National People's Congress ('gerrymandered' is not really the right word, but what's done is done) in which, by formal legislative design, there are four times as many delegates from urban areas as from rural areas relative to population. (I am deliberately not using terms such as 'representation', since that word assumes that the NPC is actually a representative body, an issue I don't want to get into here.) Although seeing this as a problem and fixing it won't make China a democracy, it seems to me to be a very important - and welcome - symbolic ste
I have received the following announcement, which may be of interest to readers. (I confess I am puzzled by their claim to be 'the first law journal in China'.) (Oct. 20 update: I am informed that they meant to say, 'the first student-run law journal in China'.)
There has recently been a minor
tempest over regulations passed by the Hubei Provincial People's
Congress Standing Committee on July 31, 2009. The provincial
regulations implement the
One provision that excited a lot of comment was the rule supposedly forbidding parents from seeing the text messages of their children. (The headline of this report, for example, is 'Hubei legislation forbidding parents from che