4.1 Diplomatic Immunity in Chinese Law

The People’s Republic of China acceded to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (the VCDR) on November 25, 1975. As a State of the continental legal tradition, China tends to apply multilateral treaties by way of “transformation”. Since its accession to the VCDR, China had made various domestic legislation concerning diplomatic privileges and immunities, and one of the core domestic legis…