ChinaFile Recommends
01.26.13OpEd: Rethinking our China Strategy
Los Angeles Times
U.S. policy of engagement with Beijing has not been as effective in shaping its rise to superpower status as Washington had hoped.
ChinaFile Recommends
12.02.12Rule of Law in China: Prospects and Challenges (Video)
Brookings Institution
On November 28, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted the launch of In the Name of Justice: Striving for the Rule of Law in China (Brookings Press, 2012), a new book by Professor He Weifang, one of...
Media
09.24.12
Law Professor He Weifang on Why Wang Lijun’s Trial Scared Him
Today, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua announced that Wang Lijun, the former Chongqing police chief, has been found guilty by a court in Chengdu of four criminal charges, including defection, abuse of power, taking bribes, and bending the law...
ChinaFile Recommends
08.14.12China’s Commercial Disputes Increasingly Arbitrated in Court
Financial Times
A big rise in commercial litigation might seem perfectly normal in an economy that is experiencing a downturn, but in China it reflects a profound shift: the rule of law has made deep inroads in governing business transactions, from routine deals to...
ChinaFile Recommends
08.03.12The Perils of Private Enterprise: There Was Blood
Economist
A visitor to Jingbian county in northern Shaanxi province finds at its heart a thriving oil town in the grip of a state-owned company, Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum. Yanchang’s building, 12 storeys high, towers over the low-slung town. The company is...
Caixin Media
06.18.12
Recurring Dreams for the Rule of Law
On the Beijing campus of the China University of Political Science and Law stands a dramatic monument inscribed with the words of legal expert and former university president Jiang Ping: “Rule of Law for Everyone.”Jiang’s words carry special weight...
Reports
04.24.09
U.S.-Funded Assistance Programs in China
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
U.S. government support of rule of law and civil society programs in the People’s Republic of China constitutes a key component of its efforts to promote democratic change in China. Other related U.S. activities include participation in official...