ALSA 2025 meeting

In China, marginalized elements of the society are killed for their organs. The primary victims, since the early 2000s have been practitioners of the spiritually based set of exercises Falun Gong, Uyghurs in large numbers and also Tibetans and House Christians. When it comes to Falun Gong, an international people's tribunal has found in 2020 that the abuse exists with certainty, beyond a reasonable doubt. Twelve United Nations human rights experts have expressed alarm and concern in 2021 about the evidence of this abuse.

The presentation would address first how the mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs has been generated by the hegemonic framework imposed on China by the Chinese Communist Party. The presentation would then address the question how the law can work to dismantle this structural abuse.

The Chinese Government hegemonic framework has both national and international dimensions. The international dimensions are particularly prevalent in Asia.

There is not much the law can do within China to challenge the hegemony of the Chinese Communist Party as long as the Party remains in power and controls both law making and law enforcement. However, there is a lot that the law can do outside of China and within Asia in particular to challenge the hegemonic abuse within China of organ transplantation.

The presentation will address, in particular, what Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have done and are proposing to do, to challenge this hegemonic abuse. The presentation will make a number of different recommendations about how both international and Asian domestic law can be used both to prevent and remedy the international dimension of the hegemonic abuse of organ transplantation in which the Chinese Communist Party, the Government China and its health system are engaged.