Since then, the government has cancelled some concessions, and, through new laws and decrees, imposed restrictions on the rest.

ECONOMIST: Just chopping it down

Their chief offence is to issue a never-ending stream of new laws, decrees and constitutional amendments, many of them poorly conceived and badly written.

ECONOMIST: The price of justice | The

Those decrees and laws are extremely unpopular--undoubtedly the most loathed in China--and make almost no sense.

FORBES: New Asia

In the top-down, unitary state they run, they are, in a real sense, responsible for the abhorrent acts committed to enforce their population decrees and laws.

FORBES