Here& #39;s a very sobering report on “tip-offs” in Mainland China. Yet it only scratches the surface of daily realities in Chinese law schools and apparently the situation is no better in teaching and research even in other fields as unlikely as medicine! 1/n https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/malicious-tip-offs-stifle-academic-freedom-china-analysts-say">https://www.voanews.com/east-asia...

The Mainland secret accusation system has now been brought to HK under the new National Security Law regime. A police “hot line” has just been established to foster secret, anonymous accusations by anyone who claims to suspect someone else of violating “national security”...2/n

...under open-ended definitions of what constitutes “national security”. In a political and social climate that now stresses “patriotism” and “loyalty to China”, i.e., to the Communist Party, and that warns against further promotion of “alien values”, the “hotline” is...3/n

...reportedly already very busy. I keep suggesting that everyone in China see the impressive movie about the former East German secret police, the feared Stasi, called “The Lives of Others”. I wonder whether any of Taiwan’s great filmmakers have yet made a film...4/5

...about the impact of Chiang Kaishek’s “Investigation Bureau”, which prevailed long after his 1975 demise. 5/5