As Beijing tries to enlist the “whole of society” to guard against foreign enemies, the line between vigilance and paranoia fades.
Beijing | Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naïve students. And it wants its people to see them, too.
While the call for mass vigilance has inspired widespread caution, it is unclear to what extent that is translating to action on the ground. In the last month, authorities have announced the capture of at least four spies, including two men recruited by the CIA — but some of the cases appeared to be old ones belatedly announced, such as a married couple arrested in 2019.
One local government in Yunnan province published a video of men and women in the traditional dress of the Yi, an ethnic group there, dancing and singing cheerily about China’s national security law. Young Chinese are an area of particular concern, especially after widespread protests last year against China’s harsh COVID restrictions. Some participants were college students who had been locked down on their campuses for months. And now many young people face a spate of other problems, including record unemployment.
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