U.S.-Asia Law Institute

June 07 – June 13

China’s Coast Guard begins questioning merchant ships east of Taiwan to assert its jurisdiction after Japan and the Philippines announce plans to talk about their maritime boundaries; Hong Kong gives its chief executive sole power to designate any criminal case a national security case, automatically reducing the defendant’s procedural protections; Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party again tries to reduce the number of seats in the Diet to reflect the country’s shrinking population; South Korean police and prosecutors raid offices of the National Election Commission to investigate ballot shortages that disrupted local elections on June 3; the chairwoman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party brings her message of reconciliation between Taiwan and China to the United States.