There are cases, were even i doubt the "lawless china narrative". Lets take something recent from china for comparisson, the local ccp-officials who in the middle of the night send digging crews to endangered dams to open them and flood the areas downstream - without a warning to the population. Cause if they warn them - they would be liable for damage compensation. So there seems to be somewhat justice giving system, if cases make it to national awareness. But in this cases, the population of villages and the digging crews brawled on the damn, resulting in incarceration of people who defended there reasonable interests. Its complicated, and i do not think the empire has not eroded away some parts of the justice system of the west.