Chinese President Xi Jinping has refocused attention on national security and risk reduction, telling the Communist Party’s inner circle that safeguarding the political system is the top priority.
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Addressing the Politburo on Friday, Xi said the party would advance the Peaceful China Initiative to an “even higher level”, despite changing conditions.
“To adapt to changes [in circumstances and targets], the Peaceful China Initiative can only be strengthened, and it cannot be weakened,” state news agency Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.
“We should safeguard the security of the regime, the political system, as well as ideology.”
The initiative was first mentioned in 2013 during a meeting between Xi and a group of law enforcers.
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It is based on the idea of “holistic national security” and has come to include political, economic, cultural, social, technological and military security.