China lays legal groundwork to ready society for war

Hong Kong, September 1 (ANI): As an authoritarian state, China has advantages when it comes to passing stringent and Orwellian laws. Primary amongst them is the reality that ordinary Chinese citizens have absolutely no ability to resist or avoid them. That is the case with the nation's newly revised National Defence Mobilisation Law, which was rubber-stamped by China's top legislature on 28 August 2026.