In September 2026, Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over “fake news.” The three organizations sued. Can a president revoke press credentials because he dislikes the coverage? The story begins with a journalist denied a White House pass half a century earlier.
In August 1988, a cinema in Cangnan County, Zhejiang, became a temporary courtroom where farmer Bao Zhengzhao and his family sued the county government. The dispute began with the partial demolition of a house beside a river embankment: why did a town construction office’s approval fail to protect it from an order to clear flood-control obstructions? Before China had a unified Administrative Litigation Law, how did the courts accept, hear, and decide this case? Beginning with the Bao family’s defeat, this episode traces the development of administrative litigation from scattered judicial practice to unified legislation and asks what it meant to bring the government into court.
Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in 2018 and returned to China three years later after entering into a deferred prosecution agreement. The charges against her were dismissed, but the criminal case against Huawei continued. In September 2026, this case spanning more than two decades went to trial in the Eastern District of New York. This episode begins with Hong Kong-based Skycom, its business in Iran, and a 2013 meeting with a bank, before turning to T-Mobile's Tappy robot and the Quintel antenna dispute to examine how allegations of bank fraud, trade-secret theft, and other offenses were assembled into a single case.
On the evening of April 9, 1996, eighteen-year-old Hugjiltu discovered a murdered woman. He asked a colleague to help report the crime, only to be identified by investigators as the killer. Just 62 days separated the crime from his execution; his acquittal came 18 years later. This episode returns to the Strike Hard era, tracing the Hugjiltu case from conviction to exoneration, examining the central principles of criminal procedure, and asking what justice delayed can leave behind.
Beginning with Ng Ka Ling, this episode traces the Court of Final Appeal’s judgments and the Hong Kong government’s response to explain the first NPC Standing Committee interpretation of the Basic Law. It examines how final adjudication and final interpretive authority coexist after the handover, and how constitutional disputes affect families on either side of the border.