As we bid farewell to 2022, we look back at the National People’s Congress’s and our work in the past year.
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Year in Review: The NPC and the Observer in 2021
As we bid farewell to 2021, we look back at the National People’s Congress’s and our work in the past year.
Continue reading “Year in Review: The NPC and the Observer in 2021”2020 in Review: A Norm-Breaking Year at the NPC
How best to describe 2020? Challenging. Surreal. Exhausting. And for China’s national legislature, norm-breaking. On this last day of the year, we look back, as usual, at the National People’s Congress’s and our work in 2020. To start, we recount those NPC institutional norms that were burned by the dumpster fire that was 2020.
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As we bid farewell to first decade of the 21st century, we look back today at the National People’s Congress’s and this Observer’s work in 2019.
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On the last day of 2018, we take a look at the National People’s Congress’s and this Observer’s work in the past year.
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As 2017 is about to come to an end, we took some time to review the NPC’s and this Blog’s work in this past year.
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Farewell, 2016… Hello, 2017!
On this last day of the eventful 2016—which brought us a Trump Presidency, Brexit, not the most celebrity deaths in a year (per CNN), and of concern to this Blog, a series of significant yet oftentimes controversial actions by the NPCSC—I took some time to review the NPC and this Blog’s 2016 and to preview their 2017 as well.