* Recent Cases Shed Light on China’s Feared Interrogation System
NY Times: “Membership in the Chinese Communist Party has many advantages. Officials often enjoy government-issued cars, bottomless expense accounts and the earning potential from belonging to a club...
View ArticleChina plans world’s longest sea tunnel at $42 billion
Reuters: “China will invest 260 billion yuan, or about $42 billion, to revive a long-stalled plan to build the world’s longest undersea tunnel across the Bohai Strait linking the country’s eastern and...
View ArticleChina Communist Party investigators tried over drowning
The Communist Party of China seems to be trying hard to apply the ‘rule of law’ to its own cadres. Must be a good thing. BBC: “The trial has begun in China of six Communist Party officials accused of...
View ArticleChina Supreme Court rules out confession through torture | Reuters
Using torture to extract confessions must be eliminated, China\’s Supreme People\’s Court said on Thursday, singling out a widespread practice that has long attracted international condemnation....
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