The Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, on June 28 passed a new foreign relations law outlining the country’s aims and policies in foreign affairs and protecting its right to impose “counter and restrictive measures” against acts that “harm its sovereignty, national security and development interests,” an official with the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee told Xinhua News Agency when answering key questions about the law on June 30.
The new law became effective on July 1.
Why the law is necessary
We live in a new era of increasing geopolitical tensions that have continuously undermined an already weak “soft law” phenomenon that has become increasingly common in international relations in recent years. “Soft law” emerged as
