The decision, which will go into effect in 2017, will affect 7,000 to 10,000 non-governmental organizations.
Starting in 2017, the new law will put foreign NGOs under the Public Security Bureau's supervision instead of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which currently oversees them. Foreign NGOs will face tighter control and supervision of their daily activities and finances.
Foreign and domestic nongovernment organizations expressed "considerable anxiety" when the first draft of the law started to circulate a year ago, according to the New York Times.
The police control will extend to all nongovernment organizations, literally, including environmental ones such as Greenpeace, educational ones such as TED, as well as philanthropical, cultural, business, religion and human rights organizations. You name an organization operating in China, the Chinese police will have control over it.
Even prior to the law's passage, the climate hasn't been great for NGOs in China. In January, a Swedish activist "confessed" on China's state television CCTV to charges of damaging national security with his NGO's support of local rights lawyers.
"National security" as defined in a sweeping law passed in 2015 is basically anything that the Chinese government says it is. The activist was released and left China eventually.
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