The initiative was announced in the Beijing Daily, a Communist party broadsheet, and is part of a new anti-espionage campaign aimed at rooting out foreign spooks. Public security officials said in a statement that they hoped to use ordinary citizens to erect a Great Wall that would help protect China from “traitors and spies”. According to a translation of the new regulation by the China Law Translate blog, would-be whistleblowers have three ways of delivering their intelligence about possible spies. Xi has ordered the creation of a national security commission modelled on the US National Security Council and introduced a national security law that activists claim gives Beijing sweeping powers to crack down on opponents. China has even introduced a national security education day, which is used to raise awareness about the perils of agents, agitators and spooks.

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2017 08:26 UTC