BEIJING (AP) — New border control rules taking effect in China on Tuesday could ban citizens from leaving the country if they engage in illegal activity that endangers national or industrial security.
The rules, part of a broader overhaul of border regulations, reflect in part heightened government concern about the export of technology at a time of growing competition with the U.S. in artificial intelligence and other emerging areas. The opening clause of the regulation says it was drawn up to protect national sovereignty, security and development interests.
A citizen engaging in illegal or criminal activity overseas that endangers national security could be prohibited from leaving China again for six months to three years from the date of their return. Similarly, a citizen who violates technology export or import regulations could be banned from leaving if the action endangers industrial or technological security, the regulation says.
The regulations also allow the authorities to refrain from notifying the individuals concerned if doing so could affect national security or the investigation of a criminal case.
Experts expressed concerns that the regulations may give officials substantial discretion to determine which activities and individuals fall under their authority, given the broad use of terms such as “national interests” and “technology security.”
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So is the “news” here that China wasn’t doing this and therefore Chinese citizens enjoyed substantially more liberty than citizens of the Western world where no-fly lists have been in place for over a decade? Or is the news that this is the first time Western media has decided to use security rules that are commonplace in the West as fodder for more sinophobia and red scare propaganda?
Hahahahahah, freaking assholes
This is an extremely common measure, there to prevent risks to national security and backdoor deals with adversarial countries like the US.
Please…
From BBC- One 26-year-old Chinese citizen, who wished to be identified only as Pipi, told BBC Chinese**** that his passport application in 2023 was rejected and he believes it was because he attended the massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019.
According to Pipi, he was interviewed by Hong Kong media outlets during the protests. When he returned to mainland China, he was questioned by state security police.
He said one immigration official told him that he could not get a passport “because of the Hong Kong issue” – but this was not confirmed in writing to him.
“I don’t know whether I’ll ever be able to leave [China],” he said.
Sure, the HK protests were overwhelmingly billionaire-backed and were generally a protest against HK being further integrated into China’s socialist system. The BBC, itself a propaganda outlet for the UK, giving a single anonymous testemony without any actual evidence provided doesn’t even mean anything to begin with.
Yeah, of course, cause they spent the last 50 years stealing things from the rest of the world. Who would know best than them?
No? The IP sharing agreements were consensual and well understood as the tradeoff for production in China.
