{"id":56353,"date":"2023-07-01T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/fears-for-people-and-firms-as-chinas-new-anti-espionage-law-comes-into-effect"},"modified":"2023-07-01T07:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:29:56","slug":"fears-for-people-and-firms-as-chinas-new-anti-espionage-law-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56353","title":{"rendered":"Fears for people and firms as China\u2019s new anti-espionage law comes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning companies and individuals could be punished for \u2018traditional business activities\u2019 under ambiguous legislation<\/p>\n<p>A revised law dramatically expanding China\u2019s definition of espionage has come into force, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/china-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage\">giving Beijing even more power to punish what it deems threats to national security.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US government, analysts, and lawyers say that the revisions to Beijing\u2019s anti-espionage law are vague and will give authorities more leeway in implementing already opaque national security legislation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/fears-for-people-and-firms-as-chinas-new-anti-espionage-law-comes-into-effect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning companies and individuals could be punished for \u2018traditional business activities\u2019 under ambiguous legislationA revised law dramatically expanding China\u2019s definition of espionage has come into force, giving Beijing even more power to punish what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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":[41,50,667,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-us-news","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\/56353","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56353\/revisions\/56357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}