{"id":54684,"date":"2023-04-27T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/china-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:14:10","slug":"china-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54684","title":{"rendered":"China widens \u2018already breathtaking\u2019 scope to arrest foreigners for espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or Chinese contacts<\/p>\n<p>China has drastically broadened its anti-espionage laws in amendments that legal experts warn could further heighten risk to foreign individuals and organisations operating in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments were passed by Beijing\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The long-foreshadowed changes broaden the law\u2019s scope to encompass anything deemed by authorities to cover national security, and expand the search and seizure powers of authorities, as well as the implementation of entry and exit bans on individuals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/china-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or Chinese contactsChina has drastically broadened its anti-espionage laws in amendments that legal experts warn could fur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,667,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54685,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684\/revisions\/54685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}