China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises

Re:China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned ente... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:49PM (#19065953)

It is always a spectrum. America is hardly perfect, but rule of law in the states is much more developed than in China. Especially constitutional law, which the CCP sees as a western abomination (so the Chinese constitution garauntees freedom of speech, religion, and so on, but is meaningless because the judiciary is not a check on the party).

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Re:China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned ente... by threeseed on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:08PM (#19066059)

You only have to look at China's religious "re-education" camps to know that the government in no way defers to the Constitution or any other laws.

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Re:China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned ente... by logicchains on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:49PM (#19067728)

"Article 51. Non-infringement of rights

Citizens of the People's Republic of China, in exercising their freedoms and rights, may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society or of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens."

So the constitution, even if followed perfectly, technically only guarantees such rights when they don't interfere with the interests of the state.

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Re:China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned ente... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:08PM (#19067780)

Sure. It basically means “the right is guaranteed, unless we don’t want to”.

Which makes it meaningless in practice.

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