China's New Rules Allow Exit Bans Over Security Concerns

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China's New Rules Allow Exit Bans Over Security Concerns

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Above: Citizens apply for the relevant documents at the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Public Security's Exit-Entry Reception Hall on May 13. Image credit: Yin Liqin/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images

The Spin

China's updated exit and entry rules are basic governance catching up with reality, since cross-border trips have jumped from 454 million to nearly 700 million and the risks now include fraud rings, illegal immigration and tech theft. The United States revokes passports over national security claims and even unpaid child support, yet nobody calls that self-isolation. Security is the seat belt that lets China open its doors wider, not a brake on travel.

Global Times

Letting officials bar anyone from leaving because they supposedly threaten "national technology security" hands Beijing a legal tool to trap engineers and businesspeople inside the country without any conviction. The Manus founders were already got blocked from departingleaving during a deal review, so this isisn't not hypothetical. Add border agents demanding unlocked phones and laptops, and every tech professional heading to China is walking into a trap.