Gordon Chang on fox
reminds us about China’s National Intelligence Law, which came into effect in July 2017.
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The Real Danger of China’s National Intelligence Law
There’s a bloody history behind the idea that the average Chinese citizen should defend national security from unspecified threats.
Not enough can be said about the insidious and pervasive power of China’s National Intelligence Law, which came into effect in July 2017.
This may be one of the reasons that Communist Party legal authorities are attempting to defend the law in the international media. Dr. Gu Bin, of the Beijing Foreign Studies University, writes in his opinion piece in the Financial Times that “Western fears of party influence on Chinese companies are overblown.”
Gu attempts to reassure the world that China’s National Intelligence Law, “in particular Article 7,” is “often misunderstood.” But amid rising concerns about the long and deep reach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into Chinese telecommunications and other Chinese-owned and operated companies around the world, Gu may have inadvertently encouraged readers to arrive at exactly the opposite conclusion.
Article 7 of the law, Gu writes, creates the “obligation of Chinese citizens to support national intelligence work.” However, “it does not authorize pre-emptive spying; national intelligence work must be defensive in nature.”
... https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-real-danger-of-chinas-national-intelligence-law/
(There’s 365K students ALONE in the US, not to mention all the others that have suddenly appeared in our neighborhoods..)
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