Earlier this year, China?s Communist Party orchestrated yet another reorganization of party and state organs, resulting in some party and government entities being merged (??) or joined (??). The move follows an even more extensive institutional shakeup in 2018. Meanwhile, the party under Xi Jingping?s leadership continues to encroach on government functions in more subtle ways as well. Our speakers, Dr. Ye Ruiping of Victoria University of Wellington and Dr. Ewan Smith of Christ Church, Oxford have written extensively about party-state relations in China. They will discuss the accelerated pace of party-state integration since 2018 and what ?socialist rule of law? means in this context. Katherine Wilhelm, executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, will moderate.
