China’s top judge has fired a warning shot at judicial reformers by formally acknowledging that China’s court system is not independent of the Communist Party and rejecting attempts to make it so.
Zhou Qiang, Supreme People’s Court president, denounced the idea of judicial independence over the weekend, an about-face that jeopardises far-ranging efforts to create impartial legal institutions in China.
“Bare your swords towards false western ideals like judicial independence,” Mr Zhou told a gathering of higher court officials. Only two months before, he had said that party committees should not interfere in the judicial process.
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