https://www.scmp.com/rss/16195/feed Jeremy Daum is a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, focusing on Chinese criminal procedure and law enforcement. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of “secret Chinese police stations” in cities around the world has sparked investigations in several European countries and attracted the attention of the FBI. But while these investigations aim to protect the rule of law from subversion, they also highlight how unprepared Western democracies are to grapple with China’s growing international influence. In their eagerness to appear “tough on China”, Western media and government... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3200806/west-must-be-prepared-face-growing-global-reach-chinas-laws?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3200806/west-must-be-prepared-face-growing-global-reach-chinas-laws?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Nov 2022 03:15:09 +0000 Most countries, including the United States, struggle to strike a balance between the need to keep some government information secret in the interest of national security and the need to provide free access to most information in the interest of popular participation and economic development. China's government is still reluctant to acknowledge that citizens have a 'right to know', and while it has in recent years developed 'open government' information regulations, they are replete with... https://www.scmp.com/article/715296/secret-agenda?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/715296/secret-agenda?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000