Posts Tagged "subversion"


July 1, 2015 (WSJ) — China adopted a sweeping national-security law that the government says is needed to counter emerging threats but that critics say may be used to quash dissent and exclude foreign investment. Approved by the legislature’s standing committee, the law sets an expansive definition of national security that outlaws threats to China’s government, sovereignty and national unity as well as its economy, society, and...

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Jan. 21, 2015 (South China Morning Post): The US-based Human Rights Watch is urging China to revise draft legislation aimed at combating terrorism, saying it was “little more than a licence to commit human rights abuses.” The draft law was made public for consultation last November and would establish a new counter-terrorism body that would have the power to designate organisations and their members as terrorists without...

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