Making Sense of China’s New National Security Law
by D. S. Rajan-July 20, 2015
It may not be wrong to say that China’s adoption of a New National Security Law on July 1, 2015 and a series of other laws in the making symbolize that the political milieu in the country, under the Xi Jinping regime, has become ideology driven. Stifling dissent seems to have become the order of the day now in China. It is not coincidental that around the Law’s promulgation, at least 146 lawyers, activists and their relatives have been taken into custody or questioned by police in 24 Chinese cities and provinces (China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, Hong Kong, July 14, 2015). The level of rhetoric against Western values and foreign influences over the society appear to have reached a new high. Making of the Law as an instrument to provide a legal framework to the party principles on National Security, is indeed an ideologically significant development.
