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Time to declassify state secrets

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The national legislature (NPCSC) has approved China's new state secret law.
Some context: The updated Law on Guarding State Secrets – last amended in 2010 – was passed by the (NPCSC) on Wednesday.
The updates to the law – which will take effect on May 1 – seek to better protect state secrets by:

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