Thank you, Chair; and thank you to the witness for being here.
I want to talk a bit about the court system in China and whether it's effective. According to section 7, article 123 of the constitution, “The people's courts (...) are the judicial organs of the State.”
Generally, if we look at western states, we have a system of checks and balances, such as in the United States and here in Canada, where we have the executive, legislative and judicial branches. This is a system of checks and balances to ensure that not one branch has more power than the others.
In your expertise, would you say that these courts are not as effective in protecting these minority groups as those that we have here in the west?