A Looming Crisis for China's Legal System
In China, politics continues to control law. The current leadership has rejected many of the universal legal values that China accepted—at least in principle—under communist rule in some earlier eras. Today, for example, to talk freely about constitutional reform, even within the sheltered confines of universities and academic journals, is not a safe enterprise. And discussion of judicial independence from the Communist Party at the central level is a forbidden subject. Yet there is discreet, if passive, resistance. Legal professionals are not happy, but they dare not speak for fear of lo...
Source: chinafile.com