Taiwan Issues China Travel Advisory as CCP Enforces Revised State Secrets Law

Published on May 3, 2024

Taiwan authorities urged its residents to avoid visiting China because of the heightened risk of wrongful detention under Beijing’s revised state secrets law. “The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) would like to remind the public, once again, to refrain from going to China for the time being, unless necessary,” the Taipei-based agency said in a statement released on April 30, a day before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacted the expanded state secrets law. On Feb. 27, Beijing unveiled an amendment to the Law on Guarding State Secrets. The revised law significantly expanded the scope of “state secrets” by including a new category of restricted information, which the Chinese authorities call “work secrets.”...

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