The changes, the first to the law since 2010, were adopted by China's top legislative body and signed by leader Xi Jinping.
The latest iteration of the state-secrets law cites Xi's 'comprehensive national-security' concept, which calls for guarding against internal and external threats while ensuring the primacy of Xi and the Communist Party.
China has cracked down on due-diligence firms, launched raids and legal reviews of foreign companies and detained some foreign executives or in some cases blocked them from leaving mainland China.
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