Makes you wonder what kind of slave labor, in space, China wants protected??? Or is this claiming Space, as territory. ??

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China's parliament adopted stringent new laws on Wednesday that broaden the definition of "national security" to include sovereignty over the country's tightly controlled Internet, strategic industries and domestic unrest, official media reported.

The law claims sovereignty over Chinese "activities and assets" in outer space, in the depths of the ocean and in sensitive polar regions, and sets up a national "security review and regulatory system ... to censor items that have or may have an impact on national security," the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The new law was passed in response to what National People's Congress (NPC) standing committee member Zheng Shuna described as growing pressure from within and without, the agency said.

"We are under dual pressures," Zheng told a news conference in Beijing.

"Externally speaking, the country must defend its sovereignty, security and development interests, and internally speaking, it must also maintain political security and social stability," Zheng said.

The new law defines as a national security matter anything that threatens China's government, territorial sovereignty, unity, as well as its economy and the "well-being" of its people, Xinhua said.

National security means that all of the interests of the country, defined as the People's Republic of China under the ruling Chinese Communist Party, are "comparatively in a state of being in no danger and free of any threat from both within and without, and that the aforementioned state can be constantly guaranteed."