![]() ![]() How is the CCP’s political influence increasingly shaping legal rulings in domestic Chinese courts? What is the experience of U.S. The global humiliation China suffered from the spy balloon incident, coupled with our government’s efforts to deny China access to leading-edge chip technology, make me confident that China’s lawfare against American companies will continue to increase. I have seen firsthand how China employs lawfare to harm American businesses, and I have also seen how China’s lawfare against American companies increased when Xi Jinping became the CCP’s highest ranking officer in 2013, and again when he became “president for life” earlier this year. I will mostly be talking about how the Chinese Communist Party utilizes laws and regulations to maximize its power and control to the detriment of American companies. I mention this because much of what I am going to tell you today is based on what I have seen while representing companies that do business in or with China. I am an international lawyer who has for the last 20 years been helping American and European companies navigate China’s legal landscape. ![]() government - by a miniscule amount - creates that same sense of awe for me. To quote Winston Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”Īnyway, the below is the written testimony I provided to the Commission before I testified live: I can still picture the giant field with the beautiful and perfectly manicured grass as though it were yesterday. I was about seven years old and I remember walking up the steps and out through an opening to look at the field. I analogize it to how I felt the first time I attended a Major League Baseball game - coincidentally also in Washington DC. I mention the “live” part because I find walking the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and seeing the offices of United States Senators to be an amazing and humbling experience. ![]() This is the third time I’ve testified before a Congressional commision regarding China, and the second time I’ve done so live. Go here if you wish to see my testimony and/or the full day of testimony given by various far more expert China law professors. Congress’s U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission regarding Rule by Law in China. Earlier this month I testified before the U.S. ![]()
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