China revises law to include certain cyberattacks as ‘acts of espionage’

The Chinese government passed an expansion of its counterespionage law on Wednesday that would, among other things, allow people to be charged as spies if they target critical infrastructure or government bodies with cyberattacks. The revised version of the 2014 law was passed by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), state media

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