“Organisation” is a broad term interpreted as all Chinese companies, global subsidiaries of Chinese companies and Chinese subsidiaries of global companies. The laws’ reach, however, cannot effectively extend to parent companies outside the country. The law “may force locally employed [People’s Republic of China] nationals of US companies to assist the PRC national intelligence efforts”, according to the US government’s National Counterintelligence and Security Centre. Meta, owner of Facebook, and Google products are largely unavailable in China, having been geo-blocked by authorities as part of their “firewall” censorship of foreign social media and search functions. TikTok, another social media giant,...