Lawmakers in China passed an anti-terrorism law on Sunday that drew concern from tech companies and President Obama as it was being considered.
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The law stipulates that governments and individuals who leak commercial secretes and privacy would be held responsible according to the law. The Xinjiang autonomous region in China’s far west has had a long history of discord between the authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uyghur population.
Earlier, China has appointed a top cop as its first new anti-terrorism czar to enhance coordination among all the security agencies specially in the volatile Xinjiang province where the security forces are battling militants of the al-Qaeda-backed East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
China’s national security law adopted in July requires all key network infrastructure and information systems to be “secure and controllable”.
The law was unsurprisingly defended by the government, who said it was necessary in order to give law enforcement the power to effectively combat terrorism – the same justifcation for similar laws that have either passed or been published in draft in the United Kingdom and US. “No other country”, stated Clinton, “can rally the world to defeat ISIS and win the generational struggle against radical jihadism”.
State media report that a new counter-terrorism agency and a national intelligence centre will be set up. Apple, which uses an increasingly common method of protecting communication known as end-to-end encryption, reported $58.7 billion in revenues from China in the fiscal quarter ending on September 26, 2015 (PDF). William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International, stated if China wants to respect human rights, then they should stop regulating how many children couples can have.
Officials have denied the law would be used for such purposes.
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The new law makes it legal for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to participate in counter terror missions overseas. In a way, the new law symbolizes the start of China’s own (maybe perpetual) war against what it terms “Western ideas”.
