The law was passed unanimously by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. Opponents countered that the new powers could be abused to monitor peaceful citizens and steal technological secrets.
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At a briefing in Beijing, one official said precedents existed in the USA, United Kingdom and the Netherlands for such requirements, while another objected to double standards on anti-terrorism measures, according to a transcript.
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Gauthier said press freedom in China was “in great danger” and it was not just the global media that were being repressed.
The U.S. has also said the new law could restrict freedom of expression and association.
Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years. They said security forces, along with local officials and residents, carried out a 56-day operation against a group of “violent attackers” responsible for ambushing police and civilians at the mine. Knife-wielding assailants killed 29 people at a train station in the southern city of Kunming in March previous year.
Terrorists had been using the Internet to operate and China needed laws to cope with this, Hong added.
China said Saturday that it will not renew press credentials of a French journalist over an article she wrote that critisised the country’s policy towards Muslim Uighers in Xinjiang. “It is not suitable for her to continue working in China”. That makes it more hard for law enforcement and security agencies to decrypt communications without knowing a person’s passcode or password.
“Essentially, this law could give the authorities even more tools in censoring unwelcome information and crafting their own narrative in how the “war on terror” is being waged”, Nee said.
“The new law comes at a delicate time for China and for the world at large – terror attacks in Paris, the bombing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt, and killings of hostages committed by Islamic State (IS) extremist group are alerting the world about an ever-growing threat of terrorism”, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Although US leaders have condemned China’s laws, they are engaging in the same rhetoric of national security stateside, suggesting that technology companies find a magical way to create secure backdoors through a Manhattan-like project despite technologists and experts resolutely telling politicians that to do so is to mandate insecurity. That could affect multinational companies like Cisco, IBM and Apple, all of which have big stakes in China.
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“China ought to send such a voice out to the world”. Almost four dozen U.S. business and professional groups signed a letter to the Chinese government in June urging it to modify that draft, which they said could hurt U.S.-China relations. The French culture ministry stresses that it hopes to keep in contact with the Chinese government.
