Dance to the Revolution

It’s easy to blame China for the failure of U.S. solar firms, but SolarWorld and other six unnamed U.S. companies’ anti-dumping and countervailing duty case against Chinese solar panel manufacturers has the potential to hurt, rather than help, the green economy in the U.S. Here is why: Solar panel manufacturing is a highly capital intensive industry, [...]

Continuing the previous post on the legal concerns surrounding the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, this just came in: Retired Justice John Paul Stevens – one of my favorite Supreme Court Justices – said that killing Osama Bin Laden was legal (WSJ reports): “It was not merely to do justice and avenge Sept. 11,” but “to remove [...]

1. Word cloud of the speech   2. Ratings Mashable reports that it received the highest TV rating since his election:     3. On “I can report… I directed… I determined…” You might noticed that in the middle of the speech when describing the operation, President Obama used more “I”s than normal. The Fabius [...]

A  joke is spreading on the Chinese Internet sphere in the form of a fake obituary, titled “Bin Laden: Old Friend of the Chinese People“, in some versions, “of the American People.” It imitates the pretentious tone often seen in official Chinese obituaries of foreign leaders, starting with: “Comrades, we are gathered here today, solemnly [...]

Environmental tax is not a niche idea – China has been contemplating an environmental tax regime for some years now, see previous coverage: 2007, 2008, 2009. And after our “grizzled” China-watcher has waited for an entire year, Beijing announced its plan to reform the taxation system, of which the introduction of an environmental tax could [...]

If you only read one law-related document today, I hope it’s this one. I assure you it’s the most entertaining Q & A you would ever read when Rep. senators are involved. View here: Kagan’s responses to senators’ written questions Just to give you a sense of it, below are some of her responses to questions [...]

China released it’s White Paper on the Internet yesterday (Beijing June 9, 2011), full text in English here, in Chinese here, a brief English news report by China Daily here. So what do we make of this story? The paragraph that has got a lot of attention starts like this: Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom [...]

China issued new regulations on May 30 banning evidence obtained through torture or intimidation, especially in death penalty cases. Konrad Lawson of the History Department has a very nice post here which puts this in a historical and comparative contexts, and inspired me to write this post, discussing them from more of a legal perspective. The [...]

Professor Jerome Cohen calls Hu Jia situation a “golden opportunity” for Beijing to begin improving its criminal justice system. On the government’s (bad) move to deny Hu Jia medical parole, Professor Cohen writes: If Hu is forced to remain in prison, without expert medical treatment and adequate diet and care, until his sentence is completed [...]

Yu Ning, President of China’s National Bar Association submits proposal to the Supreme Court to give judicial interpretation on Article 306 of the Criminal Law: Article 306. During the course of criminal procedure, any defender, law agent destroys, falsifies evidence, assist parties concerned in destroying, falsifying evidence, threatening, luring witnesses to contravene facts, change their [...]