Undue Influence

In a historically unprecedented visit, the influential Chinese scholar and labor law expert Liu Cheng arrived in Washington, D.C. this week to garner support from US legislators and labor leaders for a law that is pending not before the US Congress but before the National People's Congress in China. Liu Cheng has been a key advisor to the drafters on a new labor law reform bill currently working its way through the Chinese legislative process.His visit is part of a behind-the-scenes battle that is raging worldwide over reforms in China's labor law.