The Anti-Secession Act is a pseudohistorical and non-existent U.S. law cited in 2005 when China enacted its Anti-Secession Law. Chinese legal professionals claim that it was a unified law enacted by the U.S. federal government in 1861 to counter the Confederate States of America. Spurious claims about the Anti-Secession Act in the Chinese media have been characterized as misinformation intended to legitimize China’s own law and justify Chinese unification.