China’s National Procurators’ Meeting: Prosecutors as Priests of the Gospel According to Xi
The gathering reminded the officers that “constitutionalism,” “separation of powers,” and “judicial independence” are Western concepts that have no place in China.
by Hu Zimo
Procurator-General Ying Yong speaking at the National Procurators’ Meeting. Source: The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the Republic of China.
On January 19, Beijing hosted the annual National Procurators’ Meeting—China’s highest gathering of prosecutors, though “prosecutors” may no longer be the most accurate job description. Judging from the speeches that are now being published in various outlets, they have been reassigned to a different profession: ideological clergy. Their task is not so much to enforce the law as to enforce the correct thought, and the correct thought, as always, comes with a proper name attached.
The meeting opened with the usual invocation: a solemn call to “thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on comprehensively governing the country …
Xi has given the courts in China the communist party marching orders. And the Vatican agreement permits this to happen without question.