{"id":52596,"date":"2023-07-03T06:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/us-authorities-warn-on-chinas-new-counter-espionage-law\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:28:06","slug":"us-authorities-warn-on-chinas-new-counter-espionage-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/us-authorities-warn-on-chinas-new-counter-espionage-law\/","title":{"rendered":"US authorities warn on China’s new counter-espionage law"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States’ National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has warned that China’s updated Counter-Espionage law \u2013 which came into effect on July 1 \u2013 is dangerously ambiguous and could pose a risk to global business.<\/p>\n

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The NCSC publishes non-classified bulletins titled “Safeguarding Our Future” on an ad hoc schedule to “provide a brief overview of a specific foreign intelligence threat, as well as impacts of that threat and steps for mitigation.”<\/p>\n

On June 30 it issued a new one<\/a> [PDF] titled “US Business Risk: People’s Republic of China (PRC) Laws Expand Beijing’s Oversight of Foreign and Domestic Companies.” The first item discussed is China’s recently revised Counter-Espionage Law, on grounds it “Expands the definition of espionage from covering state secrets and intelligence to any documents, data, materials, or items related to national security interests, without defining terms.”<\/p>\n

That vagueness, the Center argues, means “Any documents, data, materials, or items could be considered relevant to PRC national security due to ambiguities in the law” and adds up to potential “legal risks or uncertainty for foreign companies.”<\/p>\n

Should you therefore think hard before reading email from your China office, or Chinese partners?<\/p>\n