Edgar Su | ReutersBEIJING — China is beefing up national security measures by expanding its protections of state secrets to include a broad category of "work secrets."
The new rules, set to take effect May 1, describe how precautions taken for state secrets should also apply to unclassified information known as work secrets.
"There is a risk that individual departments will overzealously identify matters as 'work secrets,'" Daum said.
He also founded the website China Law Translate, which published an unofficial English translation of the new rules.
Growing national security concernsThe updated state secrets law comes as Beijing and Washington increasingly cite national security risks when announcing new restrictions for business.
Persons:
Edgar Su, Xi Jinping, Jeremy Daum, Yale Law School's Paul Tsai, Daum, Jeremy Daum Yale Law School's Paul Tsai, Gabriel Wildau
Organizations:
of, Initiative, Reuters, Yale Law, Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, China, Jeremy Daum Yale Law, Jeremy Daum Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China
Locations:
Beijing, China, Reuters BEIJING, Washington