China doubles down on national security, expanding its state secrets law

BEIJING — China is beefing up national security measures by expanding its protections of state secrets to include a broad category of "work secrets." Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday signed an order to formally adopt revisions to a law on "Guarding State Secrets," according to state media, which reported that legislators passed the updated law at a meeting earlier that day. The new rules, set to take effect May 1, describe how precautions taken for state secrets should also apply to unclassified information known as work secrets. The law broadly defines work secrets as information that would result in…