New Chinese border control rules taking effect Tuesday could ban citizens from leaving the country if they engage in illegal activity that risks 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 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.
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“The new regs are another indication of just how serious China is about preventing the transfer of key tech and technical knowledge,” the consultancy Trivium said in a note after the regulations were announced about six weeks ago.
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The new border rules also include a provision that could ban foreigners from entering for one to five years if they provide false information in a visa application or at the port of entry.
The regulations also seek to prevent citizens from being deceived into traveling abroad and then forced to participate in illegal gambling or online and phone scam operations, a persistent problem in recent years.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, which monitors online discussions, sought to assuage concerns that the new rules would make travel more difficult. The measures target people involved in illegal cross-border activities, not ordinary citizens with legitimate reasons to travel abroad, the agency said in an online post last week.
Hear that those thinking of migrating? Don’t come to Canada, don’t invest here, your children will become pharaohs with no belonging and future scapegoats for half-truth politicians with dual citizenship constantly stoking nationalism, yet the land isn’t even theirs from the start. North America only wants your money, not people of a certain ethnicity, the generational neocolonialism trauma won’t just evaporate! Diversify your children’s languages and skills for a multi-polar world order!
Meanwhile Canada brings in Chinese criminals and makes them a CBP supervisor, and then they get caught swapping out hardware from US government computers.
Did the Canadian state media even mention that story?
No, because all they write about is Trump and tariffs.
Um? Its a dictatorship with actual prison camps but the liberals love them ideals. Orange Man bad …..xi good.
Amazing. Every other country bans people from leaving by arresting them and charging them with the crime. One should assume the same thing should happen in China. –
I’m certain China has always limited people’s movements. I recall Li Cunxin‘s autobiography and that he indoctrinated from youth and a devout supporter of the CCP, but was detained at a consulate for defying their orders and saying that he wanted to stay in the US with his newlywed wife.
Isn’t Canada thinking about this very thing?
What kind of ‘bupkus’ is this? China always has controlled peasant movement abroad.
It is so cute when media types pretend that China not a totalitarian oppressive communist regime with a thin film of capitalism to hide behind.
Mental note – Carney invited 2 CCP members to buy Canada at his investment/sellout summit.
So, if China allows someone to leave, they are CCP.
And all the liberal voters nod in unified approval with their slack jawed vacant stare
No worries. Clownadian Liberals will still bootlick China
Up next, in Canada…