CHINESE INTELLIGENCE-RELATED LEGAL DOCUMENTS

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State Security Law of the People's Republic of China

Adopted by the National People's Congress Standing Committee
February 22, 1993

Article 4:

Any organization and individual whose conduct harms the PRC's state security must be dealt with by legal means.

Acts of harming the PRC's state security referred to in this law are those carried out by organizations, groups and individuals outside the territory, or instigated and financed by them but carried out by others; as well as those carried out by organizations and individuals inside the territory in collusion with organizations, groups and individuals outside the territory:

1. Of plotting to subvert the government, dismember the state and overthrow the socialist system;

2. Of taking part in an espionage organization or accepting a mission assigned by an espionage organization or its agents;

3. Of stealing, secretly gathering, buying and illegally providing state secrets for an enemy;

4. Of instigating, luring and bribing state personnel to rise in rebellion; and

5. Of engaging in other sabotage activities against state security.

Article 23:

When an act of harming the PRC's national security carried out by organizations, groups or individuals outside the territory or instigated and financed by them but carried out by others, or carried out by organizations and individuals inside the territory in collusion with organizations, groups and individuals outside the territory, constitutes a crime, it shall be investigated for its criminal responsibilities according to the law.