The Hindustan Times
05 January 2021
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- New Law Allows Xi to Bypass Chinese Cabinet in Matters of National Security
New Law Allows Xi to Bypass Chinese Cabinet in Matters of National Security
On December 26, 2020, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress rubber-stamped a revised National Defense Law, and it passed into legislation on the first day of this year. The casual observer might consider this yet another piece of meaningless legalese in China, but this law ushers in important changes first mooted two years ago. Dr Collin Koh, Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in RSIS, commented that “development interests” are a term as “vaguely defined as it gets”.
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Last updated on 06/05/2021
