In September 2026, Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over “fake news.” The three organizations sued. Can a president revoke White House hard passes because he dislikes the coverage? The story begins with a journalist denied a hard pass half a century earlier.
In 1987, Zhu Jiacheng and Zhu Gongbao, a farmer father and son from Lianshui, Jiangsu, refused to accept the administrative detention imposed on them by the public security authorities and sued the Lianshui County Public Security Bureau in court. The Lianshui County court ultimately revoked the police penalty ruling, making this the first case, before the Administrative Litigation Law was enacted, in which a court ruled against the public security authorities. This article traces the full course of the case.
In August 1988, a cinema in Cangnan County, Zhejiang, became a temporary courtroom where farmer Bao Zhengzhao and his family sued the county government. The dispute began with the partial demolition of a house. Before China had a unified Administrative Litigation Law, how did the courts accept, hear, and decide this case? This episode traces the development of administrative litigation from scattered judicial practice to unified legislation and asks what it meant to bring the government into court.
Beginning with China’s two nationwide Strike Hard campaigns, this article traces the reconstruction, adjustment, and development of criminal law and criminal procedure after reform and opening.
On the evening of April 9, 1996, eighteen-year-old Hugjiltu discovered a murdered woman. He asked a colleague to help report the crime, only to be identified by investigators as the killer. Just 62 days separated the crime from his execution; his acquittal came 18 years later. This episode returns to the Strike Hard era, tracing the Hugjiltu case from conviction to exoneration.