Submission to the EU on the EU Regulation on Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Made by the Professional Training for Lawyers & Barristers in the UN Guiding Principles in Business & Human Rights Working Group

 

I am delighted to pass along the "Submission to the EU on the EU Regulation on Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence" for the Professional Training for Lawyers & Barristers in the UN Guiding Principles in Business & Human Rights Working Group. We are grateful to Linda Wood for her leadership in the preparation and submission of this input.

Pix credit HERE

The submission emphasizes the importance of capacity building to any project of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.   While the West has cultivated a (self) conceit around its own capacity to robustly engage in human rights and environmental due diligence, the reality is that except for that small group of (mostly self selected) drivers of this project, the need for capacity building among members of the local legal establishments is as great in developed states as it may be in the "usual suspects" developing states. A greater challenge is the need to internalize the values  and principles around which due diligence is undertaken and the systems created for its implementation effectively used to measure compliance.  And the greatest challenge--to create a dynamic and well informed community clear in its driving principles but strong in its capacity to resist rigid and inflexible orthodoxy in pursuit of common goals centering around context based respect for the great principles of human rights and sustainability (including climate change) that have emerged in the first quarter of this century.

And that is where the hard work of implementation will begin. To move beyond the use of this regulatory project as something more than another contribution to fashionable virtue signalling--by states, international public and private organizations, enterprises, and individuals in academia, the bar and elsewhere--then sufficient resources will have to be devoted to internalizing the values represented by due diligence It will also require a sustained and coordinated program of teaching values and mechanics to its  gatekeepers, data collectors, code writers, analysts and modellers. The current generation of lawyers will require training not just on the mechanics of due diligence and its application to human rights and sustainability; it will require training in the values reflected in the due diligence, and ultimately, as envisioned in 2011 with the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, with the incorporation of human rights and sustainability risks into the way in which economic actors price their activities and make choices among alternatives to the creation of wealth for humanity and the world that humans occupy. 

 

Invitation to open multi-stakeholder consultation with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.

The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has decided to focus its 2018 report to the UN General Assembly on emerging practice and innovations of corporate human rights due diligence across sectors. The Working Group’s vision is that by bringing to light lessons learned, main obstacles and success stories from practical experiences, this can contribute to faster progress overall.

Ongoing consultation process

Starting in February 2018, the Working Group has launched a consultation process to inform its work on this topic. This process conducted during the first of 2018 it will engage with a range of stakeholders (including business, civil society and governments) through in-person consultations and written inputs.

• Background note
• Open multi-stakeholder consultation: 17 May, 15:00-18:00, Palais des Nations, Geneva - Concept note - Registration details will be posted here.  
• Call for inputs: All interested parties are invited to submit relevant material and information to the Working Group, including case studies/good practice examples. Contact: wg-business@ohchr.org. Deadline: 30 May.
• To receive updates via Twitter, please follow @WGBizHRs.

For those of you lucky enough  to merit the special consultations--congratulations; you are the 1% of the business and human rights community with a special responsibility to ensure that all our voices are heard!  For the rest of us, this is the opportunity to try to get, if not a place at the table, then perhaps a small if inconspicuous place in the room. 

This Post includes information (English, Castellano, Français) for the Invitation to open multi-stakeholder consultation with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.

Announcing Roundtable: "Socialist Rule of Law and Governance after the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress" 13 March 2018 Pennsylvania State University

Roundtable: Socialist Rule of Law and Governance after the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress
13 March 2018
Pennsylvania State University
Katz Building Room 232
13 March 2018
10 AM – 12.30 P.M. U.S. East Coast Tome

LIVE STREAMED on Mediasite; We Welcome Your Participation!

As part of a week of events tied to the transformation of China in the “New Era”–The Vanguard Acts: A Focus on China at the Dawn of its “New Era,” we have organized a Round Table on Socialist Rule of Law and Governance after the 19th CPC Congress. This Round Table builds on our initial Round Table, The Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, which we held shortly after the conclusion of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress.

This Round Table brings together a group of scholars from China, Europe and the U.S. who will consider the further implications of the 19th CPC Congress more specifically in the context of the important objectives of developing Socialist Rule of Law and governance. That exploration implicates significant initiatives both internally and in the context of China’s growing external relations. Participants will consider the development of internal disciplinary systems, their rules and structures, as well as Chinese external initiatives–principally the One Belt One Road Initiative. The relevance of big data management, AI and algorithms will also be considered.  Program HERE.

All are welcome to attend and participate either in person or through an interactive live streaming of the event. Participants will be afforded ample time for questions which may be submitted online or in person. Round Table information is posted below.

作为关注中国“新时代”转型的“先锋行动：在新时代的前夕关注中国”系列活动的一部分，我们组织了一场聚焦于十九大后社会主义法治和治理的圆桌会议。这场圆桌是我们去年在十九大结束后不久举办的“中共十九大的影响”圆桌会议的进一步讨论。

这次圆桌邀请了来自中国、欧洲和美国的一批学者，他们将在发展社会主义法治和治理的语境下，更加细致地讨论十九大的进一步影响。这一探究也揭示了中国对内对外两个方面的重大倡议。与会者将会从内部纪律体系的发展，其规则和结构，以及中国的外部倡议—主要是一带一路倡议—等方面展开讨论。同时也将讨论大数据管理、人工智能和算法等在社会主义法治和治理发展中的有关影响。

欢迎任何人参与本次圆桌会议或者是通过我们搭建的网络直播互动平台参加我们的讨论，我们将为现场和线上观众保证足够时间提问互动。更多有关信息如下。

The Concept Note  and Program follows.  

Chinese Constitutionalism After the 19th CPC Congress: Flora Sapio on "Chinese Constitutionalism in Work Reports to the CCP Congress 1949 - 2012"

 

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)

A question that emerged during the course of the recently concluded Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress (here, here and here) the speakers wondered, collectively, about the extent and character of the evolution of CPC thinking, and the CPC Basic Line, with respect to Socialist Rule of Law and Socialist Constitutionalism. The question arose in the context of a discussion around the question of the extent which the Work Report delivered by Xi Jinping and the resulting final Resolution of the 19th Congress reflected a downshifting of the importance of the state constitution and constitutionalism in general from the Basic Line of the CPC itself. As interesting was a follow up question around the effects of any such downshift on the relation between the state and the political constitutions of China.

We have started to pursue research along those lines. I produced a preliminary report and assessment of Chinese Constitutionalism: The Emerging Idea and Practice of Constitutional Governance in the 19th CPC Congress Report (HERE). My sense was that the 19th CPC Congress Report evidenced a clearer movement toward what I had previously described a Chinese political constitutionalism, in which the State Constitution assumes an administrative character subordinate to the overarching political constitution of the Communist Party Constitution. That separation of administrative and political functions serves as the bedrock of emerging Chinese constitutional structures (here, here, here, and here).

Flora Sapio has been drilling deeper into the historical evidence. She first prepared a study of the references to the CPC Constitution, the State Constitution, and hybrid references (following the framework adopted in Chinese Constitutionalism) from the 8th CPC Congress in 1956 to the 19th CPC Congress in 2017 (HERE). That preliminary study suggested not a downshift grade as a refocusing on state and party constitutions form the founding of the PRC.

In this post Flora Sapio provides a more comprehensive consideration of the historical data. Her essay, Chinese Constitutionalism in the Work Reports to the CPC Congress 1949-2012, follows.

Chinese Constitutionalism: The References to Constitutions in the Reports of the Chinese Communist Party Congresses--A Preliminary Historical View

 

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)

A question that emerged during the course of the recently concluded Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress (here, here and here) the speakers raised a very interesting issue that might merit some further initial discussion. We wondered, collectively, about the extent and character of the evolution of CPC thinking, and the CPC Basic Line, with respect to Socialist Rule of Law and Socialist Constitutionalism. The question arose in the context of a discussion around the question of the extent wo which – the Work Report delivered by Xi Jinping and the resulting final Resolution of the 19th Congress reflected a downshifting of the importance of the state constitution and constitutionalism in general from the Basic Line of the CPC itself. As interesting was a follow up question around the effects of any such downshift on the relation between the state and the political constitutions of China.

It appeared worth considering whether principles of constitutionalism for the “New Era” may be extracted from the sum of Xi Jinping’s Report to the 19th Congress. To that end, I produced a preliminary report and assessment of Chinese Constitutionalism: The Emerging Idea and Practice of Constitutional Governance in the 19th CPC Congress Report.

Our colleague Flora Sapio has now investigated the issue over time.  She has prepared a study of the references to the CPC Constitution, the State Constitution, and hybrid references (following the framework adopted in Chinese Constitutionalism) from the 8th CPC Congress in 1956 to the 19th CPC Congress in 2017. That study follows.  

Professor Sapio will post on the character of these references in another post.  For the moment, the most interesting aspect of the study is the way that before the 13th CPC Congress in 1987, one could count only one reference to the state constitution and one hybrid reference.  In contrast, between 1969 and 1987 the focus was on the CPC Constitution, with multiple references. References to the State Constitution grew thereafter, especially during the 13th through 15th CPC Congresses. But during that period references to the CPC Constitution did not decline (e.g., there was no reversal of emphasis between the CPC and state constitutions), and more importantly hybrid references (e.g., references to the state constitution within the context of the deployment of CPC leadership responsibilities and tasks) also increased with the exception of the 2002 16th CPC Congress when there were no references to the CPCP Constitution. Indeed the one CPC Congress Report that stands out is the 12th CPC Congress in which no references to either constitution appears. Most interesting, at least initially, is that it appears that the extent of the focus on constitution and constitutionalism in the 19th CPC Congresses was last seen at in the 13th and 14th CPC Congresses, the end of the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. But the references to constitution and constitutionalism in the 19th CPC Congress Report substantially exceeded references in any prior Report since the 8th CPC Congress in 1956. 

Stay tuned, more to come!

Video Recording Uploaded of the Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress

 

The Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress that took place this Friday, November 3, from 10 AM through Noon U.S. East Coast Time, provided an opportunity for a global audience to consider, as a preliminary matter, the nature and character of the important development of Chinese political theory and its consequences for policy, the state and China's international engagements. Links to Conference materials and original sources form the 19th CPC Congress may be accessed from the Conference Web Site (access here).

 

My thanks again to the group of scholars from China, the U.K. the U.S. and Italy who provided a lively and quite diverse set of impressions of critical aspects of the 19th CPC Congress. My thanks as well to the conference sponsors, Penn State Law, Penn State School of International Affairs, the Coalition for Peace & Ethics (which organized the event), and the Foundation for Law and International Affairs.

I am happy to report that our video-recording of the Round Table has just been posted to Penn State's website.  This post includes the link to the video recording which may be ACCESSED HERE.

The Development of Chinese Constitutionalism in the "New Era": The Emerging Ideal and Practice of Socialist Constitutionalism after the 19th CPC Congress

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)

 On the eve of the November 2017 meeting between the leaders of the United States and China, "John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, tilted the White House away from criticism of Beijing in an interview on Fox News last week, saying China had beaten the United States on trade but “that doesn’t make them an enemy.” He also said that China has “a system of government that has apparently worked for the Chinese people.” ("Wooing Trump, Xi Jinping Seeks Great Power Status for China").  That last statement represented a surprising tilt from traditional American positions which were based, in large part, on the fundamental belief that the Chinese constitutional and political system were either illegitimate or in need of substantial change moving both closer to Western models. 

This was, in part, a question that emerged during the course of the recently concluded Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress (here and here) the speakers raised a very interesting issue that might merit some further initial discussion. We wondered, collectively, about the extent and character of the evolution of CPC thinking, and the CPC Basic Line, with respect to Socialist Rule of Law and Socialist Constitutionalism. The question arose in the context of a discussion around the question of the extent wo which – the Work Report delivered by Xi Jinping and the resulting final Resolution of the 19th Congress reflected a downshifting of the importance of the state constitution and constitutionalism in general from the Basic Line of the CPC itself. As interesting was a follow up question around the effects of any such downshift on the relation between the state and the political constitutions of China.

To that end it is worth considering whether principles of constitutionalism for the “New Era” may be extracted from the sum of Xi Jinping’s Report to the 19th Congress. What follows, then is a preliminary report and assessment of Chinese Constitutionalism : The Emerging Idea and Practice of Constitutional Governance in the 19th CPC Congress Report. The Bilingual version (BL) of the 19th CPC Congress Report then follows. The essay may also be download HERE or HERE.

Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress; Program, Speakers and On Line Materials

The Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress that took place this Friday, November 3, from 10 AM through Noon U.S. East Coast Time, provided an opportunity for a global audience to consider, as a preliminary matter, the nature and character of the important development of Chinese political theory and its consequences for policy, the state and China's international engagements. The group of scholars from China, the U.K. the U.S. and Italy provided a lively and quite diverse set of impressions of critical aspects of the 19th CPC Congress. My thanks to the conference sponsors, Penn State Law, Penn State School of International Affairs, the Coalition for Peace & Ethics (which organized the event), and the Foundation for Law and International Affairs.

This post includes the Participant List and Program for the Round Table.  Links to Conference materials and original sources form the 19th CPC Congress may be accessed from the Conference Web Site (access here). We will add more material as they are made available. We welcome engagement and look forward to continuing our analysis of the important work of the 19th Congress and the development of the CPC Basic Line.

Send Us Your Questions! Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress [3 Nov. 2017 10 AM US East Coast Time Live Streamed]

The Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress that takes place this Friday, November 3, from 10 AM through Noon U.S. East Coast Time will be LIVE STREAMED globally; ACCESS LINK).

The Round Table is also looking forward to real time questions from around the globe.

To submit your questions during the Round Table please CONTACT US here→

PSUCPC19@gmail.com 

OR

19cpcpsu@gmail.com

Our moderator will be looking for questions to pass on to the participants.  We will try to answer all question asked either during the course of the event or thereafter on the Conference web site.

Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress [3 Nov. 2017 10 AM US East Coast Time Live Streamed]: Opening Statements of Flora Sapio and Larry Catá Backer

In preparation for the Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress this Friday, November 3, from 10 AM through Noon U.S. East Coast Time (and LIVE STREAMED globally; ACCESS LINK), Flora Sapio and I have prepared very brief "Opening Statements). 

The Opening Statements may be accessed here:

Flora Sapio: What is the Most Important Element of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party?

Larry Catá Backer: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era–新时代中国特色社会主义思想—As the Most Important Element of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party?

They also follow below.

Announcing Round Table: On the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress 3 November 2017 10 AM through Noon Penn State University With Global Access Via MediaSite

The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has just concluded in Beijing.  The Congress approved a number of important changes to the political constitution of the People’s Republic that will have significant effects on law, economics and the political organization of the state.  It will also have a significant effect on China’s external relations —from trade and trade frameworks, through sovereign investing and development. Its effects on the shape and development of international law and international relations cannot be underestimated. 

We will be hosting a Round Table on the Implications of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress this Friday, November 3, from 10 AM through Noon.  It is sponsored by Penn State Law, Penn State School of International Affairs, the Coalition for Peace & Ethics, and the Foundation for Law and International Affairs along with its Research Career Development Network of Law and International Affairs.

The Round Table brings together a group of scholars from the U.S., Europe and China.  The Round Table will be held at Pennsylvania State University, Katz Building Room 241.  For those unable to attend the Round Table will also be live streamed globally (accessible through Penn State's Mediasite: http://mediasite.dsl.psu.edu/mediasite/Play/4d93fb185798486e9742e197aac8685e1d). A recording of the Round Table will be posted after the event.

You are all welcome to attend and participate.  Remote access participants will be able to send their questions and comments online.  

More information, including Concept Note and Participant List may be accessed on the Round Table Website:  HERE. 

The Concept Note also follows below. 

Relevant primary source materials in English and Chinese may be accessed HERE.

The Rest of the Revisions to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China--Redlined English Version

On October 24, 2017, the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China adopted a resolution on the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Amendment), effective immediately.  The revision represents an important development in the evolution of the political constitution of China, defining the vanguard party's program, organization, organization system, party members, party members rights and obligations, party discipline, etc. The last revision was partially modified by the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which was adopted on November 14, 2012.

I have already posted the critical changes to the constitutional elements of these revisions in the Constitution's "General Program" (see HERE).  This post includes the other amendments to the Chinese Communist Party Constitution adopted at the 19th CCP Congress red-lined to show the changes from the prior version (which itself had last been revised in 2012). My thanks again to Flora Sapio and the Coalition for Peace & Ethics for the translation to English. The Chinese original red-lined version may be accessed HERE.

The KEY ELEMENT to watch for here are the new provisions regarding inspection tours (art. 14), which will play a prominent role going forward in disciplining CCP organizations.  When combined with the techniques of big data management, it may auger a new era of institutional management. This managerial element then radiates outward (e.g., art. 34).

The complete red-lined English language version, General Program and Constitution of the Communist Party of China; Table of Amendments 2017(© 2017 Flora Sapio), may be HERE and on the Coalition for Peace & Ethics website HERE. Coalition for Peace & Ethics primary sources here.

The Revised General Program of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China 中国共产党章程 (October 24, 2017) Comparison With Prior Constitution (in English)

With great thanks to Flora Sapio, and her excellent translation, and with her permission,  I am posting the side by side comparison of the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party Constitution, reflecting the amendments that were adopted by the 19th CCP Congress (in red).  The General Program of the CCP Constitution sets out the cage of principle that constrains the  CCP in its leadership role.  It sets out the CCP Basic Line, those principles and policies in conformity with which all CCP cadres, from the lowest to the highest are under a strict obligation to apply. Here, then, are the amendments to the political constitution of the Chinese state.

It is from these that law, policy, economics and politics are ordered and legitimated (e.g., here, here, here, and here).  It is from this that the language of politics, of economics, of society and of the obligations of state and Party to  its citizens is constructed. It is through this document that the Chinese political class constructs meaning from words, and sets the boundaries and forms of discourse.  The failure to understand this meaning making will make interpretation more difficult for foreigners who might otherwise insist of exporting their own ideological language constructs onto the Chinese system.

The side by side comparison of the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party Constitution (in English) follows. 

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era--新时代中国特色社会主义思想: Constitution of the Communist Party of China 中国共产党章程 (Partial revision of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adopted on October 24, 2017)

One of the most important products of the 19th CCP Congress has just been posted--the amendments to the Chinese Communist Party Constitution.  

Among its more important additions is the embedding of the principles around "Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics" [习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想作为自己的行动指南]:

十八大以来，以习近平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人，顺应时代发展，从理论和实践结合上系统回答了新时代坚持和发展什么样的中国特色社会主义、怎样坚持和发展中国特色社会主义这个重大时代课题，创立了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想。习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想是对马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观的继承和发展，是马克思主义中国化最新成果，是党和人民实践经验和集体智慧的结晶，是中国特色社会主义理论体系的重要组成部分，是全党全国人民为实现中华民族伟大复兴而奋斗的行动指南，必须长期坚持并不断发展。在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指导下，中国共产党领导全国各族人民，统揽伟大斗争、伟大工程、伟大事业、伟大梦想，推动中国特色社会主义进入了新时代。

Since the Party's 18th National Congress, Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their chief representative, in response to contemporary developments and by integrating theory with practice, have systematically addressed the major question of our times-what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics the new era requires us to uphold and develop and how we should uphold and develop it, thus giving shape to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Thought is a continuation and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development. It is the latest achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, a crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important component of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a guide to action for the entire Party and all the Chinese people to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and must be upheld long term and constantly developed. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to carry out a great struggle, develop a great project, advance a great cause, and realize a great dream, ushering in a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

 It follows below in the original 中文.

新时代中国特色社会主义思想 (Socialism With Chinese Characteristics in the New Era): Xi Jinping Report to the 19th CCP Congress--Official 中文 Version Released

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era--新时代中国特色社会主义思想--that is the central theme of the Report delivered on 17 October 2017 by Xi Jinping during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing.

What follows are the Original 中文  language version of that Report. Other language versions will be posted shortly and may be accessed through these links: Français; Deutsch; 日本語;  Русский язык; Español; 한국어; عربي.

新时代中国特色社会主义思想 (Socialism With Chinese Characteristics in the New Era): English Language Simulcast of the Report delivered by Xi Jinping during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era--新时代中国特色社会主义思想--that is the central theme of the Report delivered on 17 October 2017 by Xi Jinping during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing. This Report, delivered orally by Xi at the start of the 19th CCP Congress of roughly 3 1/2 hours, has yet to be published in official form. Yet it will prove especially important for the development of key concepts of Chinese Communist Party principles and the forward organization of the state apparatus and the principles under which policy decisions will be made.

For English speaking audiences, access to the Report may prove more difficult.  For those interested and pending the release of the official Chinese and English language versions of the Report, as delivered, I have posted here a link to Xi Jinping's Report with simultaneous translation into English.  The link may be accessed HERE.

新时代中国特色社会主义思想 (Socialism With Chinese Characteristics in the New Era): Resolution of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party (Amendment)

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the NewEra--新时代中国特色社会主义思想--that is the central theme of the Report delivered by Xi Jinpin during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing.

Its most important official ramification will be its embedding into the Chinese Communist Party Basic Line. That embedding requires, in the first instance, the institutionalization of what the CCP has embraced as its new core: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the NewEra--新时代中国特色社会主义思想.

To that end, the 19th CCP Congress has adopted a Resolution of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party (Amendment). The text, in English and Chinese (中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会在京闭幕 选举产生新一届中央委员会和中央纪律检查委员会 通过关于十八届中央委员会报告的决议、关于中央纪律检查委员会工作报告的决议、关于《中国共产党章程（修正案）》的决议 习近平主持大会并发表重要讲话), follows. It is taken from the website of the Chinese State Council.   The Resolution is complex and will require substantial study to tease out all of its ramifications for politics, economics, policy, and socio-economic development.

新时代中国特色社会主义思想 (Socialism With Chinese Characteristics in the New Era): Briefing on Party Self Supervision Reform

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the NewEra--新时代中国特色社会主义思想--that is the central theme of the Report delivered by Xi Jinpin during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing. This Report will prove especially important for the development of key concepts of Chinese Communist Party principles and the forward organization of the state apparatus and the principles under which policy decisions will be made.

Resources: the official site of the Congress Press Centre--

http://19th.cpcnews.cn/ (Chinese)
http://19th.cpcnews.cn/english/index.html (English)

The site for the Conference on Chinanews.com

http://www.chinanews.com/gn/z/shijiuda/index.shtml?_t=t&from=timeline (Chinese).

Over the next week or so I will be posting about portions of the Report and then providing some reflections.  We are organizing a Rountable on the 19th CCP Congress as well for the the first week of November.

This post includes some of the key provisions of the Report. The Briefing of Xi’s Report to the 19th CPC National Congress focused on supervision systems (Miaoqiang Dai translating) includes the key provisions for Communist Party supervision, that is for the development of new mechanisms for Communist Party discipline in the New Era.  There is much here to unpack. The ENGLISH and Chinese versions follow.