The April 1 @WSJwallstreet has a good front page story discussing exit bans issued by Chinese courts in civil disputes involving foreign companies and personnel. This is a real risk for foreign business people that is too often ignored until too late. There should be...1/2
...a follow-up story not about the PRC courts but the PRC police, who are often invoked by local powerholders to detain or harass foreigners involved in a local business dispute. wsj.com/world/china/chinese-… 2/2
Thanks to Professor Perry Link of UC Riverside and @thecfhk for their continuing effort to support the nomination of five Hongkongers (Chow Hang-tung, Gwyneth Ho, Jimmy Lai, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Joshua Wong) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Geremie Barme’s splendid translation of Professor Xu Zhangrun’s latest poem honors the memory of Navalny. chinaheritage.net/journal/mo… Xu’s “suffocating surveillance”, as Geremie puts it so well, is one of China’s more curious punishments, imposed outside the legal system. 1/3
Xu is not formally imprisoned but, fired from his Tsinghua Law professorship and deprived of all income, he lives in shunned isolation. I and probably others urged him not to return to China from cancer treatment in Japan a couple of years ago following publication of...2/3
Interesting that soon after the publication of Minxin Pei’s recent book on the importance of human spying to China’s security services now comes a @nytimes story by @julianbarnes that the US CIA also believes that human sources are still the best insight into...1/2
Tom Sylvester, @CIA's newish deputy director of operations, steps (partly) out of the shadows to make the case for human intelligence collection on the new episode of the "Langley Files." nytimes.com/2024/02/28/us/po…
The @WSJBooks Section has a nice review by @crovitz of The Sentinel State by Minxin Pei. The book reportedly emphasizes the continuing prominence of China’s vast network of human informants despite the advent of new high-tech instruments of repression. wsj.com/world/china/the-sent…
I cannot resist commenting on this week's biggest China news, the return of the pandas, even though I am sure this is not my first mention of those potent symbols of the PRC’s good will. Read more on my blog: jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/…
BREAKING: China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reigniting its panda diplomacy apnews.com/article/pandas-sa…
It came as a welcome surprise and honor to learn that the Association of American Law Schools Section on East Asian Law & Society has renamed their Lifetime Achievement Award as the “Jerome A. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award". I was reminded of a special former student...1/2
...of mine, Judge Jed Rakoff, and the joys of being a law school professor - read more on my blog. jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/… 2/2
Navalny's death, like the previous years of his life, illustrates the differences that still exist between the PRC’s currently totalitarian criminal justice system and Russia’s authoritarian counterpart. Can you imagine the PRC giving noted political prisoners...1/4
...public interest lawyer colleagues now serving long criminal sentences after extended pre-trial detention, but we do not hear from them. Of course, the PRC no longer pretends to have even Russian-style “free elections” that...3/4
Here is the announcement of a dynamic new organization, @caprifdn USA, that adds to our understanding of Taiwan and its relations with other jurisdictions including the US and the PRC.
Join Harry, @ScottCMiller4, Mimi and me at the launch event of CAPRI USA Foundation this afternoon, when we discuss economic and democratic resilience across the Pacific. All are welcome, in-person or online:
This case is important for understanding the contemporary PRC criminal justice system. Yet so little is known to the public about it, and it raises so many questions. Read more on my blog: jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/…
Australian academic Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence by Chinese court theguardian.com/world/2024/f…
This is an important and useful development that many should be aware of.
We just launched our Stop Extradition to China Help Center: a one-stop resource shop to counter extraditions to China. Years in the making, it's based on SD's successful experience of blocking extraditions to China in over half a dozen countries.
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...nature not to be missed! Hope you enjoy our discussion. 2/2 youtube.com/watch?v=1duBU6zf…