By Michael Lelyveld in Radio Free Asia, Oct 20, 2014 China is trying to impose debt limits on local governments as they struggle to meet major repayment deadlines by the end of the year. In what may be a critical step toward financial order, the State Council, or cabinet, issued new debt rules for local authorities on Oct. 2, seeking to end backdoor lending schemes that threaten to spiral out of control. Last year, the…
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By Simon Denyer in the Washington Post BEIJING — China’s Communist leaders promised legal reforms on Thursday that could give judges more independence from interference by local officials but will leave the party essentially above the law, after a high-level meeting that had been billed as a pivotal moment in the country’s legal history. After a four-day closed-door session, the party’s elite Central Committee pledged to promote “the socialist rule of law with Chinese…
By EDWARD WONG in The NY Times, Oct 24, 2014 A well-known Tibetan religious leader, Khenpo Kartse, has been sentenced by Chinese officials to two and a half years in prison, according to reports from International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group, and Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the United States government. The sentencing took place two to three months ago in a court in the Chamdo area of the Tibet Autonomous…