THE CHINESE TO COUNTER THE WORLD'S TERRORIST COMING FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD PASSES ITS OWN ANTI TERROR CYBER BILL - FORCING TECHNOLOGY FIRMS FOR THE ENCRYPTION KEYS BE HANDED OVER TO THE CENTRAL GOVERNEMENT TO MONITOR ITS PEOPLE'S COMMUNICATION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY - IT SEEMS THE CHINESE MAY NOT BE AS ADEPT IN ACQUIRING ENCRYPTION KEYS AS THE US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE WHEN IT COMES TO SNOOPING - THE PONDORAS BOX FOR GREATER SPYING FROM THE COMMUNIST COUNTRY EXPANDS - AS THE LAW CAN MEAN CHINA CAN INTERFERE IN WORLD AFFAIRS IN COUNTERING MIDDLE EAST TERRORIST FROM MUSLIMS ALONG WITH ITS ALLY RUSSIA NOW IN SYRIA

China's parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations.

Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years.

The law has attracted deep concern in Western capitals, not only because of worries it could violate human rights such as freedom of speech, but because of the cyber provisions. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concerns about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Speaking after China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed the law, Li Shouwei, deputy head of the parliament's criminal law division under the legislative affairs committee, said China was simply doing what other Western nations already do in asking technology firms to help fight terror.

"This rule accords with the actual work need of fighting terrorism and is basically the same as what other major countries in the world do," Li told reporters.

This will not affect the normal operation of tech companies and they have nothing to fear in terms of having "backdoors" installed or losing intellectual property rights, he added.

Officials in Washington have argued the law, combined with new draft banking and insurance rules and a slew of anti-trust investigations, amounts to unfair regulatory pressure targeting foreign companies.

China's national security law adopted in July requires all key network infrastructure and information systems to be "secure and controllable".

The anti-terrorism law also permits the People's Liberation Army to get involved in anti-terrorism operations overseas, though experts have said China faces big practical and diplomatic problems if it ever wants to do this.

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