Rio Tinto case or a new starting point for protecting State secrets

The 46-year-old Australian Chinese stern Hu may not have thought he would be arrested by China's National Security Agency.　　His three colleagues were arrested along with Mr Hu.　　July 9, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang confirmed that, because of suspected foreign spying and stealing China's state secrets, the Australian Rio Tinto office in Shanghai, the chief representative of the Chinese National Security Agency was detained on July 5 night.　　At this point, China and Rio Tinto, including the international "Big three" iron ore negotiations into a deadlock. This year, the Ministry of Commerce has carte blanche to let CISA deal with the annual iron ore negotiations.　　January 9, CISA proposed a reduction of more than 40% of the decline in demand.　　June 30, the final deadline for iron ore negotiations in 2009, Rio Tinto and other international iron ore giants eventually do not accept CISA's request.　　The tough attitude of these giants is confusing to the industry.　　China's iron ore imports accounted for 50% of the world iron ore, as the largest buyer, China should be in the import of iron ore price negotiations have the right to speak.　　The exposure of Rio Tinto incident partly explains the passivity of China's "long association" negotiations.　　Media disclosed that the relevant personnel will be the production of iron and steel enterprises, steel ratio, procurement plans, gross profit margin, inventory and other internal information, and even iron ore negotiations and the bottom line, such as the key information disclosed to the iron ore suppliers. Insiders say that the other side can calculate our demand for iron ore, that is, our dependence on iron ore.　　In the process of negotiations, the other party can be based on this to control the price drop.　　Only a couple of percentage points of price changes, business billions of, and even tens of billions of profit and loss.　　The actions of Mr Hu and others have no doubt undermined the economic interests of our entire steel industry. 60% corruption cases and foreign-related "problems in the steel industry, first of all show that in the increasingly competitive international market, there are traps and dirty transactions everywhere." In order to achieve the goal, some enterprises have unscrupulous, even the use of stealing state secrets of other countries in the way to maximize their own interests.　　"The issue of national economic security may get more attention after the Rio Tinto incident," said Jiang, chief researcher of the CIC's energy industry analyst.　　In August 2008, Jiang, director of the Center for Economic Security Research at the Institute of Modern International Relations, issued an article warning that foreign interest groups are increasingly active in China, increasingly involved in Chinese economic decision-making, and China's economic sovereignty has been seriously threatened. Hit's Guo Jingyi case is fairly representative.　　Ministry of Commerce, the original Inspector Guo Jingyi, in drafting the decree of foreign mergers and acquisitions of Chinese enterprises, deliberately for foreign investors left "back door" to the foreign-owned enterprises beheaded mergers and acquisitions of some of China's leading enterprises big green light, resulting in China's economic security and "Maginot Line of defense." "In business competition, the problems in the steel industry may already be the unspoken rules in this field, and in other big energy industries there may be similar problems."　　"Jiang said. July 15, Ministry of CommerceThe Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Dr Mei Xinyu, said in an interview with the media that the case of the Rio Tinto Spy was quite numerous in China, including the confidentiality of our strategic advanced manufacturing industry, the confidentiality of general industries, and the technical secrets of our traditional crafts.　　In recent years, Wal-Mart, Lucent, Merck, Depp, state paint and other cases, has continuously sounded the alarm. These acts of espionage are often linked to corruption in Chinese government officials and state-owned executives.　　A group of data from the China Civil Economic Analysis agency, the State group, shows that over the past decade, the number of bribery cases in China has been on the rise, with more than 60% of the 500,000 corruption cases surveyed in China related to international trade and foreign investors. Iron ore relates to economic security at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry, Qin stressed that Mr Hu and others were being detained as a judicial case.　　Chinese authorities have taken action against them in accordance with the law when they have conclusive evidence that they are spying for the outside world, stealing Chinese state secrets and causing serious damage to China's economic interests and economic security.　　Since the second half of 2008, with the spread of the international financial crisis, China's iron and steel industry has been seriously impacted, there has been a steep decline in production and demand, prices plummeted, business difficulties, the whole industry losses, the stability of the steel industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Under such a background, it is particularly important to control the cost of steel. Zhou Wifu, deputy researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the outcome of the negotiations will inevitably affect the direction of steel prices, but also affect the development of other industries and even survival conditions. For example, the real estate industry and household appliances industry closely related to People's life, "iron ore price rises a little, big to house, small to you use stainless steel pot, price will rise." "The steel industry is a strategic industry that affects people's livelihood, so the production arrangement and steelmaking ratio of steel companies are not only internal secrets of the enterprise, but also national security secrets," said a person familiar with the situation.　　In the intelligence community, espionage agencies can often calculate the country's national economic construction and even the production of large weapons systems, such as warships and aircraft, from a country's steel production and consumption data. "Our country is still in the stage of industrialization development, steel production will maintain a growth rate of 2% to 5% per annum."　　"The demand for imported iron ore is certainly not going to be drastically reduced, so iron ore prices will, to a certain extent, affect the development of China's economy," Zhou Wifu said.　　Foreigners also have to comply with Chinese law the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said that Rio Tinto employees suspected of stealing state secrets was arrested, in general, is a case, but also in China's participation in international economic activities in the process of further standardizing the operation of enterprises in the embodiment of business behavior. After the Rio Tinto case, China has repeatedly stated that this is only a case and will not affect China's cooperation with foreign investment. "We want foreign companies operating in China to be able to make money and to provide a convenient environment for foreign companies to make money." "Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin GangSaid。　　According to a survey of 1070 people from 14th to 19th, the "Key Research" survey company, a prominent Australian investigative agency, found that 63% thought Australia should accept the laws of other countries, even if the laws of those countries were different from those of Australia. "Economic security, which is very important but often overlooked in the field." "This incident is a cautionary tale for domestic and foreign companies," said Professor Chen Zhonglin, Dean of the School of Law at Chongqing University, which could be a new starting point for protecting state secrets. "The Rio Tinto incident has provided a reference for metals and other oil industries," said Herongliang, an iron analyst at the China-Commerce circulation Productivity Promotion Center. "The Chinese economy should stand at a higher starting point, not just the case itself."　　June 27, the "Conservative State Secrets Act (revised draft)" to the public to solicit opinions, increased the confidentiality of information systems for secrecy measures, to strengthen the secret-related organs, units and confidential management of the personnel of the 5 aspects of the content.　　On the one hand, the participants proposed to narrow the scope of confidentiality, to prevent the abuse of the right to secrecy and other ideas, on the other hand, also stressed the "more open, the more confidential" proposition.　　Media reports, a rare 20 years of secrecy inspection is sweeping the country, including not only party and government, state-owned enterprises are also being inspected. As for the case may involve foreign personnel, Thunue said, whether it is foreign personnel to steal our secrets or Chinese personnel to disclose state secrets, our laws are applicable.