China Law Translate

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Chinalawtranslate.com is a crowdsourced, crowdfunded translation project making Chinese law accessible to English speakers.

It is run by Jeremy Daum, a Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai Center specializing in criminal Procedure.

For me the main issues about Tiktok, the erosion of 1A rights caused by a ban, is already resolved.
Others understandably are more concerned with the site itself.
I'll get interested again as Trump uses the site as a bargaining item in talking to China.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/mr-beast-is-reportedly-now-among-those-trying-to-buy-tiktok/
MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok | TechCrunch

An unlikely group, including Mr Beast and Bench acquirer Employer.com, has submitted a bid to buy TikTok.

TechCrunch
Suprised you went over to Xiaohongshu. How are you finding it?
SPC on the offense of Attacking Police. This charge was added to the Criminal Law in 2015 (Am9) as an aggravated form of Impeding Public Functions with heightened penalties for violent attacks. https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/21538-2/
Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Attacks on Police Officers

Interpretation on Application of Law in Criminal Cases of Attacking the Police

China Law Translate
Less than 5 at meaningful volume, but it's still really run to watch.

In a few days you'll know what the court did- no need for guessing games.

The justices seemed skeptical of speech interests, but more of TikTok's (vs. Bytedance's) than of users.

They also seemed skeptical of the government's arguments.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tiktok-china-speech-security-72fa68dd677df96a3b3526a1bddb0aa8

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19

The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments Friday in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company’s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech, either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States. Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified as the “main concern” in the case TikTok’s ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company’s ties to Chinese government’s intelligence operations.

AP News
Lifeboat capitalism? What are you, some kind of Lifeboat Socialist? https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-capitalism
Lifeboat Capitalism

Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.

How Things Work
Lifeboat capitalism? What are you, some kind of Lifeboat Socialist? https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-capitalism
Lifeboat Capitalism

Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.

How Things Work

Articles like this on Arctic shipping reflect my understanding of why Canada and Greenland are in the spotlight.

Trump is a madman not because it's irrational to be focused on this, but because he addresses it by Tweets about invasion and annexing.
https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/why-chinas-ice-silk-road-has-trump-up-in-arctic-arms/

Why China's Ice Silk Road has Trump up in Arctic arms - Asia Times

While Western media called Republican President-elect Donald Trump a “madman” for suggesting he would buy or “invade” Greenland, China is quietly building

Asia Times
Tiktok case oral argument happening now. https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
Live Oral Argument Audio

In Tibet, Chinese Boarding Schools Reshape the ‘Souls of Children’

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

The New York Times