Caijing Online, 2009-04-02
In response to the State Council Standing Committee's 1 April meeting on the draft revision of the State Secrets Law, Caijing reviews the many reasons why revision is urgently needed: The current 1988 law continues the “Chinese traditional system” of secrecy as an administrative principle and contradicts new “sunshine policies” on the release of government information. Bureaucratic agents take advantage of the current law's lack of explicit standards concerning what constitutes “state secrets” to hide their own mistakes and corruption. The law also prevents defendants and their lawyers from accessing crucial evidence declared state secrets by police or prosecutors in criminal trials, as a recent case demonstrates
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