Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naïve students.
Chinese universities require faculty to take courses on protecting state secrets, even in departments like veterinary medicine.
A kindergarten in the eastern city of Tianjin organized a meeting to teach staffers how to “understand and use” China’s anti-espionage law.
Its first post: a call for a “whole of society mobilization” against espionage.
The country’s economy is facing its worst slowdown in years, but China’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, appears more fixated on national security and preventing threats to the party’s control.
Persons:
China’s, Xi Jinping
Organizations:
China’s Ministry of State Security, Communist Party
Locations:
Beijing, Tianjin