China's top court has urged officials from the ruling Communist Party to shun Western-style judicial independence, state media said on Thursday, as controls over the media, dissent and the Internet are tightened.
The comments by China's Supreme Court, Beijing's latest attack on Western ideology, are another sign of President Xi Jinping's conservative political agenda.
The party has signaled that it will not embark on political reform despite hopes that Xi, the son of a former liberal-minded vice premier, might relax tight central controls.