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03.13.18China Unveils Overhaul of Government Bureaucracy
Wall Street Journal
Plan follows constitutional amendments that boost President Xi Jinping’s power.
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03.12.18Xi Jinping Clear to Rule Indefinitely as China Scraps Presidential Term Limits
Wall Street Journal
Legislature votes to repeal 10-year presidential term limit imposed after Mao’s death.
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03.12.18Ending Term Limits for China’s Xi Is a Big Deal. Here’s Why.
New York Times
What is at stake when China ends term limit on Xi’s presidency?
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03.07.18Francis Fukuyama: China’s ‘Bad Emperor’ Returns
Washington Post
Since 1978, China’s authoritarian political system has been different from virtually all other dictatorships in part because the ruling Communist Party has been subject to rules regarding succession.
Viewpoint
03.01.18
Maybe the Law Does Actually Matter to Xi Jinping
The February 25 announcement that the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.) has proposed a constitutional amendment that would remove term limits on the office of the presidency is arguably the most significant Chinese political and legal development in...
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02.27.18Xi’s Power Grab Gives a Short-Term Boost with Long-Term Ramifications
Brookings Institution
China’s stock market and currency rallied Monday on news that the country would revise its constitution to abolish term limits for the president.
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01.19.18
China’s Leaders Are Poised to Strike a Blow to Its Legal System
President Xi Jinping has escalated China’s war on corruption with a proposed new law that would expand the reach of the Party in an unprecedented manner. Under current law, two formally separate entities deal with cases of corruption: A Party...
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12.27.17China to Look at Changing Its Constitution
Financial Times
China’s Communist party will meet next month to deliberate revisions to the country’s state constitution that would mark the document’s first amendments since 2004.
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09.18.17China to Amend Party Constitution at October Congress
Reuters
China’s ruling Communist Party is expected to amend its constitution at a key party congress next month, state media said on Monday, in a sign that President Xi Jinping aims to enshrine his guiding ideological doctrine in the charter.
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12.04.15On China’s Constitution Day, Book on Constitutionalism Largely Disappears
New York Times
China held its second-ever National Constitution Day on Friday.
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09.18.15Japan's 'Profound' New American Military Ties Are All About China: Q&A
Christian Science Monitor
Japan's parliament passes the most sweeping changes to Japan's defense policy since World War II.
Media
12.08.14
On First Annual Constitution Day, China’s Most Censored Word Was ‘Constitution’
On December 4, China’s first annual Constitution Day, Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily posted the complete text of the Chinese constitution to its Weibo microblogging account, accompanied by the upbeat hashtag: “Let’s all read the...
Features
01.26.14
For Freedom, Justice, and Love
from China Change
Following is legal activist Xu Zhiyong’s closing statement at the end of his trial in Beijing on January 22, 2014. According to his lawyer, Xu was only able to read “about ten minutes of it before the presiding judge stopped him, saying it was...
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09.11.13Chinese Teacher Suspended for Teaching Constitution
Global Voices
Professor Zhang Xuezhong of East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai published an article entitled “The Origin and Perils of the Anti-constitutionalism Campaign in 2013″. On August 17, Zhang was notified that his teaching status had...
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08.13.13What’s China Got Against the U.S. Constitution?
Global Post
The Communist Party mouthpiece, People’s Daily, attacked America’s constitutional structure, claiming that “there is no such thing as democracy and freedom under U.S. constitutional governance.”
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03.07.13Chen Guangcheng Q&A
South China Morning Post
The blind lawyer and human rights activists answers questions regarding China's constitution, rule of law in China, and the inevitability of change in the Chinese government.
Media
03.01.13
No Closer to the Chinese Dream?
2013 began dramatically in China with a standoff between journalists and state propaganda authorities over a drastically rewritten New Year’s editorial at the Southern Weekly newspaper.In the first week of the New Year, the editors of Southern...