China’s New Anti-Terrorism Law and Encryption

**Unofficial Translation:**

[Counter-Terrorism Law (2015)](http://chinalawtranslate.com/反恐怖主义法-(2015)/?lang=en) at China Law Translate

> See also: [What China’s Anti-Terrorism Legislation Actually Says](https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-chinas-anti-terrorism-legislation-actually-says) – Benjamin Bissell at LawFare

**News Reports:**

[China Antiterror Law Doesn’t Require Encryption Code Handovers; but Law Passed by Rubber-stamp Parliament Sunday Still Raises Concerns About its Scope and Impact](http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-antiterror-law-doesnt-require-encryption-code-handovers-1451270383) – Wall Street Journal

[China’s New Anti-Terror Law: No Backdoors, but Decryption on Demand](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/chinas-new-anti-terror-law-copies-uk-no-backdoors-but-decryption-on-demand/) – ArsTechnica

**Related – on China:**

[In Cyberspace, China’s Aim is to Control and Censor, No Matter What it Says](http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1893924/cyberspace-chinas-aim-control-and-censor-no-matter-what-it?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed) – Zhou Zunyou op-ed in South China Morning Post

[U.S., China Vow Not to Engage in Economic Cyberespionage](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-china-vow-not-to-engage-in-economic-cyberespionage/2015/09/25/90e74b6a-63b9-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html) – Washington Post (09.25.2015);   [What Explains the U.S.-China Cyber ‘Agreement’?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-explains-us-china-cyber-agreement) – Jack Goldsmith at LawFare ; [Why the U.S.-China Cyber Spying Ban Will Inevitably Fail](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-us-china-cyber-spying-ban-will-inevitably-fail-14219?page=show) – Jennifer McArdle at The National Interest

[Courage on Trial in China](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/courage-on-trial-in-china.html?_r=0) – Ai Weiwei op-ed in New York Times;   [‘I’m a Petitioner – Open Fire!’
Chaohua Wang on Justice in China](http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n21/chaohua-wang/im-a-petitioner-open-fire) – London Review of Books;   [How ‘Picking Quarrels’ Became Beijing’s Go-To Weapon in Anti-dissident Lawfare](https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/22/how-picking-quarrels-became-beijings-go-to-weapon-in-anti-dissident-lawfare/) – Hong Kong Free Press

[Microsoft Failed to Warn Victims of Chinese Email Hack: Allegations by Former Employees](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-china-insight-idUSKBN0UE01Z20160101) – Reuters