China's president warns against growing threats to national security

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that China faces increasing threats to national security and warned of the dangers of terrorism in a speech indicating that Beijing could impose tougher controls on its ethnic minorities.

Xi told a study session of the party's decision-making Politburo "to resolutely stamp out the brazenness of the terrorists," the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

Xi's comments come at a sensitive time for China, as authorities battle unrest in the Tibetan regions and in Xinjiang, home to Muslim Uighurs. Unrest in Xinjiang has led to the deaths of more than 100 people in the past year, prompting a tougher stance against the Muslim Uighur minority. The government blames the violence in Xinjiang on Islamist militants and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan in the far western region.

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"We have to be clearly aware that in the new situation, our country is facing increasing threats and challenges to our national security and increasing threats to our social stability," Xi said. The Chinese public must build a "wall of bronze and iron" to fight terrorism, and "make terrorists become like rats scurrying across a street, with everybody shouting 'beat them'," he said.

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[awoke_in_2003]

1. Our government uses fear and bogeymen...

to keep us compliant, why wouldn't China?

[pangaia]

2. Not good....

'.....Increasing threats to our social stability," Xi said.'

Bull. It is just the opposite.

'The Chinese public must build a "wall of bronze and iron" to fight terrorism, and "make terrorists become like rats scurrying across a street, with everybody shouting 'beat them'," he said.'

Wow, who talks like that? Authoritarians,right or left.

[jwirr]

3. They may not know it but the threat to their security is the same as to all other nations of the

world - climate change and the uncertainty that goes with it.

[DeSwiss]

4. Xi's Housecleaning, Act II