The new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: APThe new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: AP
The new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: AP
China /  Politics

China sets up task force to boost political policing amid threats to stability

  • Working group is part of high-level enforcement body established in April to ‘strike hard on activities that could undermine political security’
  • It comes as Beijing faces growing criticism over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak
Topic |   China’s Communist Party
Jun Mai
Jun Mai in Beijing

Updated: 5:53am, 7 Jul, 2020

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The new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: APThe new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: AP
The new task force has vowed to “hit hard on subversive activities, terrorist acts, ethnic secession and religious extremism”. Photo: AP
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