Oct 15,2015 Special Forum Xi Jinping’s Impact on China’s Legal Development: Domestic and International When Xi Jinping came to the United States for a state visit in September 2015, questions about China’s posture toward the rule of law, domestically and internationally, were scattered across Washington’s agenda. The perennial question of human rights had again become an urgent and law-related concern, with the crackdown on rights protection lawyers in mid-2015, […] Jacques deLisle Legalist repression , National identity , Rule of law , Top-down government , UNCLOS