CHINESE INTELLIGENCE-RELATED LEGAL DOCUMENTS

[EXCERPTS] Detailed Rules for Implementing the
State Security Law of the People's Republic of China

Promulgated by the State Council
July 12, 1994

Article 7:

The "collusion" activities of endangering state security referred to in Article 4 of the State Security Law refer to the following activities carried out by institutions or individuals inside the country:

1. Plotting or carrying out activities for endangering state security together with organizations, institutions or individuals outside the country;

2. Accepting the financial support of organizations, institutions or individuals outside the country, or doing so at their instigation, to carry out activities which endanger state security; and

3. Establishing ties with organizations, institutions or individuals outside the country, and obtaining their support and assistance for carrying out activities which endanger state security.

Article 8:

The following activities are the "other sabotage activities which endanger state security" referred to in Article 4 of the State Security Law:

1. Organizing, plotting or carrying out terrorist activities which endanger state security;

2. Fabricating or distorting facts, publishing or disseminating written or verbal speeches, or producing or propagating audio and video products which endanger state security;

3. Carrying out activities which endanger state security through establishing social organizations or business institutions;

4. Using religion to carry out activities which endanger state security;

5. Endangering state security through creating national disputes or inciting national splittism; and

6. Activities of individuals outside the country who disregard dissuasion and meet with personnel in the country who have endangered state security or who are seriously suspected of endangering state security.