London-based sustainability expert James Hey explained what has changed.

China already has a backdrop of, you know, national security, uh, existing, um, anti-foreign sanctions laws.

What's changed recently is that China has elevated supply chain security to a point of, of national security, uh, and has also passed, uh, new regulations essentially trying to counter the application of certain foreign laws that have improper, uh, extraterritorial, uh, application to Chinese companies.

China has published these two new regulations.

The first of those, um, essentially says that supply chains are now a point of national security in China, and therefore we will be more closely scrutinizing the security of those supply chains and also how foreign companies interact with, uh, Chinese companies.

The Chinese government will publish a list of critical sectors, and so the protections, uh, under these regulations will only apply to those sectors.

We're not sure exactly yet what those critical sectors are gonna be, however, we can speculate, and most obvious I think would be defense-related sectors.

So what can they do?