China’s top legislature on Sunday adopted the country’s first counter-terrorism law in the latest attempt to address terrorism at home and help maintain world security.
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“Terrorism is the public enemy of mankind, and the Chinese government will oppose all forms of terrorism”, An said. Opponents countered that the new powers could be abused to monitor peaceful citizens and steal technological secrets.
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Another aspect of the legislation identified previously by the United States is that the law, combined with new draft banking and insurance rules and a slew of anti-trust investigations, amounts to unfair regulatory pressure targeting foreign companies.
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Chinas security and law-enforcement authorities, including the departments of public security and state security, prosecutors, the courts, and the military, are all obliged to fight against terrorism, according to the law.
Experts estimate that the strict legislation has prevented the births of some 400 million people in China, which now has a little over 1.3 billion people, although it has also fostered a relative “aging” of the population. “Terrorism is the enemy of mankind, and the Chinese government”, An said. This warning comes after decades of abuses when the state’s propaganda was not effective.
Zhang, one of China’s most powerful men on the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, said the law “strengthens measures of prevention, handling, punishment as well as global cooperation”. “It is this complexity that has caused us much delay in promulgating this law”. It would also impact multinational corporations operating in China, the Times notes, including Apple, IBM and Cisco.
“These companies have been dealing with this increased, let’s call it oversight, for the last two or three years”, said Scott D. Livingston, a lawyer who works for Simone IP Services, a consulting firm in Hong Kong, and who has followed the discussions over the law. But many in the west are understandably concerned about providing such unfettered access to the Chinese government, considering its track record of censorship and repeated allegations of cyber-espionage against U.S. firms and government agencies.
China’s largely rubber stamp parliament on Sun. passed the country’s 1st law against domestic violence, which covers unmarried individuals who cohabit still doesn’t protect gay couples, a senior lawmaker stated.
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The new law did not ban surrogacy, which appeared on the previous amendment draft together with the ban on trading sperms, ova, fertilized ova and embryos.
