rule-of-law

The chapter outlines three fundamental principles for controlling civil disorder: preserving civil peace as a government responsibility, maintaining the rule of law without suppressing lawful protest, and recognizing civil order as a community-wide responsibility. It emphasizes the critical role of police sensitivity, training, and rapid response, while highlighting deficiencies in communication, command, and use-of-force options. The chapter also stresses the importance of community cooperation, mayoral leadership, disciplined law enforcement, and federal support to effectively prevent and manage civil disorder amid complex social tensions and misinformation.

This chapter details the Chinese Communist Party's (CPC) comprehensive anti-corruption campaign and efforts to strengthen Party discipline and the rule of law following the 18th National Congress. It highlights three major achievements: improving Party conduct through strict discipline enforcement, adopting a zero-tolerance stance on corruption targeting officials at all levels including high-ranking ones, and establishing the rule of law by abolishing outdated regulations and enacting new laws to ensure fairness and justice. These measures have enhanced the Party's credibility, promoted social fairness, and fostered a new political ecology in China.

The preface critically examines the stalled progress of human space exploration since the Apollo era and challenges claims that private property rights in space can exist without sovereignty, highlighting conflicts with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. It underscores the necessity of establishing a rule of law in outer space that protects universal rights and avoids repeating Earth's historical mistakes, while addressing the social, psychological, and legal challenges of living in space. The author uses science fiction to illustrate the importance of defining rights and freedoms in new contexts and calls for cooperative and ethical space law development.