Xi Jinping claims progress on national security in meeting of secretive commission
President says it has ‘solved many problems that had long remained unsolved’
President Xi Jinping has told a top-level meeting that the ruling Communist Party is gaining “the upper hand” in its national security campaign.
“In the past four years, the National Security Commission … has solved many problems that had long remained unsolved, and achieved tasks that had long remained undone,” Xi said at a meeting of the commission on Tuesday.
“Work on national security has been strengthened. [The Commission] has firmly grabbed the upper hand in maintaining national security,” Xi was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Xi’s remarks came as the party marked the fourth anniversary of the secretive commission, which was founded and is chaired by the president.
It was just the second time the commission has appeared in state media coverage, but there was no footage of the meeting, nor was it made known who attended apart from Xi, Premier Li Keqiang and head of the legislature, Li Zhanshu.