China Orders Companies To Step Up Monitoring of Foreigners In Anti-Spying Campaign (theguardian.com) 43
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Chinese social groups, enterprises and public entities will have increased responsibility to combat foreign espionage under new regulations issued by the country's ministry of state security. The regulations, which were released and took effect on Monday, come amid deepening hostilities between China and some western governments, including over the detention of foreigners accused of national security crimes. According to state media, state security will work with other government departments to "adjust" the list of groups susceptible to foreign espionage and to develop measures to safeguard against it, including Chinese Communist Party and state organs, social groups, enterprises and public institutions.
Once organizations are designated as having anti-espionage responsibility, state security will provide "guidance, supervision and inspection" of their efforts, including personnel vetting, and strict training, monitoring and debriefing for staff trips overseas. Identified organizations must report suspicions and incidents to authorities. It come amid increasing public campaigns to watch out for foreign spies, which state media has warned could be an "intimate lover" or "an online friend with the same interests." According to Li Wei, an expert on national security and anti-terrorism at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, the new regulation "places emphasis on companies and institutions taking precautionary measures against foreign espionage." Li said key fields would include companies or institutions working in national defense, diplomacy, economy, finance and tech.
Once organizations are designated as having anti-espionage responsibility, state security will provide "guidance, supervision and inspection" of their efforts, including personnel vetting, and strict training, monitoring and debriefing for staff trips overseas. Identified organizations must report suspicions and incidents to authorities. It come amid increasing public campaigns to watch out for foreign spies, which state media has warned could be an "intimate lover" or "an online friend with the same interests." According to Li Wei, an expert on national security and anti-terrorism at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, the new regulation "places emphasis on companies and institutions taking precautionary measures against foreign espionage." Li said key fields would include companies or institutions working in national defense, diplomacy, economy, finance and tech.
"Industrial espionage" (Score:5, Funny)
"How dare they snoop on us the way we've been snooping on them!"
Re:"Industrial espionage" (Score:4, Funny)
Does that mean we'll get all our stuff back?
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Perhaps; they stole F-35 plans and improved upon it. We can swipe the upgrades and maybe have a real plane now.
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"Gentlemen! You can't spy in here... this is the Espionage Room!"
{with apologies to Peter Sellers)
Time for the Western World to do the same? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Time for the Western World to do the same? (Score:5, Insightful)
Lovely racist post to completely obliterate some actual facts.
However, I wonder how China would like it if every Chinese venture on US soil had to be with a US partner owning 51% of the company, and all US companies had to have a DoD/CIA/DHS officer on the board who could override all decisions, and has access to all the company confidential stuff.
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I am not an expert, but I don't think foreign companies all require those measures anymore. I was looking into it at a totally superficial level while working in HK for a HK-based company with an office of developers in China that was trying to set up a separate subsidiary company.
You can set up a 'wholly foreign owned enterprise'. It has pros and cons compared to the 'old system' - Wikipedia has a good summary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
I guess there's always the risk that they randomly decide to end
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The situation is not so different in the US. My employer is currently looking at setting up a US subsidiary because it's the only way to prevent the government competing with them. The feds are trying to develop similar technology to us, having used our systems and learned from our research work. Rules are that they can't compete with American companies, so we need to open an office there and transfer some technology to force them to shut down their programme.
Re: Time for the Western World to do the same? (Score:2)
Do you fear getting disappeared or your family arrested as leverage?
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I wouldn't travel to the US because I'm concerned about lack of basic rights at the border and when countering cops. I wouldn't carry any significant amount of cash in case the police stole it (civil forfeiture). While I think the risk to me of being the victim of rendition or simply being hauled off to some black site is low I wouldn't risk it.
I also have serious doubts about the US justice system, not that the UK one is particularly good either.
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That's a bit overly paranoid. There are some problems, but even the stuff you see in the news is notable for being uncommon. I've been to (including working in) about 40 countries on 5 continents. While the US might the faultless in each category you mention, they are probably less problematic than 75 to 95% of other countries.
Basic right as the border suck for every country. The most invasive, believe it of not, has been New Zealand. Guatemala might be next. The border officers in the US are just as
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I like how it was downmodded and declared racist. That was the point of it, to describe what they do in reflected terms.
Of course it is outrageous!
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Meanwhile the Chinese government commits a
The CCP red scare! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: The CCP red scare! (Score:2)
There is no alternative.
To the CCP, Google and Facebook have your back (Score:1)
How much business does a company have to do in a foreign country to be considered a foreign agent of that country?
Re: Well, of course (Score:1)
Re: Well, of course (Score:5, Insightful)
The US/Canada arrested an executive, who is exhausting the opportunities of actual court systems to try to regain freedom ... China held a bunch of nobodies hostage as retaliation with access only to kangaroo courts, it's not really equivalent.
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It’s alleged that she did, in fact, break Canadian laws as well, but they didn’t charge her for them until after they had already arrested her on the basis of the US charges.
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And I can see why you're AC.
My opinion (Score:1)