Editor’s note for May 2, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Dear reader:
Yesterday we looked at alleged and real Chinese espionage activities in the U.S. and found, among other things, that despite the current U.S. lawmaker focus on TikTok, the Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is actually the social media site being exploited by spooks from Beijing, but that much of their activity is laughably amateurish.
Today, our top story looks at the growing body of anti-espionage laws in China. Along with recent police raids and visits to U.S.-owned research firms in China, and growing restrictions on access to Chinese databases and archives, the broadening of the anti-espionage laws to include all kinds of vaguely-defined activities is sending a chill through the foreign business community. Scroll down for a summary, or click through for all the details.
From today, we’ll send this newsletter at 10 p.m. Beijing time, 10 a.m. New York time, which is mid- to late-afternoon in Europe. We hope the new time works for you: please let me know if you have thoughts about it.
Our Word of the Day is: Anti-espionage Law of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国反间谍法 Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó fǎn jiàndié fǎ).
