The National People’s Congress said its standing committee adopted the law Sunday with a unanimous vote.
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This week, the U.S. State Department said it had expressed “serious concerns” about the law which it said would do more harm than good against the threat of terrorism.
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As well as granting new powers within China’s borders, the new law also permits overseas action by the People’s Liberation Army – something which will be eyed with suspicion and likely opposed by for foreign nations.
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Human rights groups have warned that the law will give even more intrusive powers to the Chinese government, which already has broad, virtually unchecked authority to monitor and detain citizens and to demand information from companies and Internet services.
Critics, including a French journalist, Ursula Gauthier, who was expelled from China this week, have questioned China’s policies in the ethnically divided province of Xinjiang, which is home to the mainly Muslim Uyghurs.
The law’s passage follows several bouts of ethnic violence, including the stabbing of 29 people at a Kunming train station in March 2014 and an attack on a Xinjiang coal mine in September.
While a provision in an initial draft that would require companies to keep servers and user data within China was removed from the final law, technology companies will still have to provide help with sensitive encryption information if law enforcement authorities demand it.
“One of the big concerns I have with this draft counter-terrorism bill is that the definition of terrorism is quite vague and open-ended and if we look at how Chinese officials and the media have used the terrorism tag in the past, it’s chiefly applied to the Uyghurs as well as the Tibetans”, Leibold said.
The law also stipulates that telecom operators and ISPs should prevent dissemination of information on terrorism and extremism.
Another official, An Weixing, director of the Ministry of Public Securitys anti-terror bureau, said: China is against double standards on anti-terrorism issues. That could affect multinational companies like Cisco, IBM and Apple, all of which have big stakes in China.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concern about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The new law clarifies the responsibilities of different groups, including government, communities, schools and medical institutions.
Chinese commentators have long accused the West of double standards, saying that the West has refused to acknowledge the public attacks as terrorism by characterising them as human rights conflicts.
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Li Shouwei, a spokesman for China’s legislature, told reporters on Sunday that the laws do not target any specific region, ethnicity or religion.
