On the same day that Bo Xilai, China’s infamous disgraced politician, was formally charged with corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power, a clutch of Chinese activists was briefly detained at a ...

WASHINGTON - A congressional panel on Tuesday heard international trade experts discuss how foreign entities can use U.S. courts to gain commercial and political advantages over Americans. Most of ...

The country's arbitration bodies are not plugged into the international system, a former justice official says China should bring in judges from overseas and expand arbitration pilot programmes to ...

In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has been restructured to preempt such claims entirely. This third essay in the ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight A celebrity’s public image not only pertains to personal dignity but, owing to ...

As soon as DeepSeek was heralded as the new wunderkind of the chatbot market, curious users started to notice the “Chinese characteristics” of the application: a deafening silence on issues such as ...

This week, many organizations and media outlets commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 709 (July 9) or "Black Friday" crackdown, a coordinated detention of more than 300 rights lawyers and ...

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