An article by Josh Chin in the Wall Street Journal this week casts an unflattering light on the Chinese studies community in the West. "The German Data Diver Who Exposed China’s Muslim Crackdown" tells the story of an obscure academic who almost single-handedly discovered a massive human rights violation in China's Xinjiang province. The obvious question is how and why others did not catch the crackdown?

My article about a big conflict of interest, republished from Quillete. 

Earlier this week in New York I heard a panel of experts discuss President Xi Jinping's vicious attack on China's human rights lawyers. I was struck with the parallel to Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse of women in Hollywood. In both cases, powerful executives abused vulnerable victims and were aided by a culture of enablers: people who facilitated the abuses and those who knew but kept silent.

Nonlawyers are rarely able to protect properly their own legal rights.

Professor Roderick Hills eloquently defends the conduct of U.S. universities in China.

A powerful critque of my article on western universities in China

The presence of Western universities in China is on the rise, but they are not following UN principles on corporate social responsibility.

NYU law professor Roderick Hills says "that freedom of speech at NYU-Shanghai might be greater than at NYU-Washington Square or other schools on American soil.''

Does the silence of U.S. universities in China in the face of human rights abuses legitimize a government that oppresses its citizens? 

Despite political pressures, foreign firms can give valuable moral support to public interest lawyers in China.