The time around the beginning of this year had interesting developments regarding the government's attitude towards domestic NGOs and their international sources of funds, in both India and China. On December 27th 2016, Indian media reported that out of 33,000 Indian NGOs, 20,000 would lose their qualification for receiving foreign funding under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. Meanwhile, the People's Republic of China Law on the Management of Foreign NGO Activities within Mainland China took effect from January 1st 2017, which drew another round of discussion on the operation of Western NGOs in China. This issue of the Law & Policy Brief describes and analyses the features of this new regulatory experiment in China and compares it to the legal and policy regime on the same subject prevailing in India.