On 28 June 2017, the National People’s Congress passed the National Intelligence Law and outlined the first official authorisation of intelligence in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Unlike its Western counterparts, the intelligence law does not specifically name China’s intelligence services. Instead, the law describes the “national intelligence work institutions” as the “intelligence organs” of the state security and public security institutions, as well as military intelligence organisations. The law’s vague definition of intelligence in the opening articles suggests intelligence includes both information collected and activities conducted in support of comprehensive state security. The national intelligence work institutions provide intelligence information to inform decision-making and undefined capabilities for action to support state security.
Chinese employees stole corporate secrets from Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, Dutch financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad (FD) reported on Thursday.