China’s Communist Party targets big risks in countdown to congress
- Politburo gives top priority to political security and defending against infiltration and subversion
- Group also passes national security strategy but offers no details
“[We] must insist on making political security the top priority and coordinate to step up security work in key disciplines including political security, economic security, social security [and] technology security,” the Politburo said in a statement after a meeting on Thursday.
“[We] must firmly uphold regime security, institutional security and ideological security, and strictly defend ourselves against all sorts of infiltration and subversive acts.”
The 25 members of the party’s inner circle – led by Xi – also pledged to be on guard for systemic financial risks and to ensure industry was more resilient.
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The Politburo, which meets about once a month, also passed the “National Security Strategy (2021-2025)” but offered no details on the document.
An apparently similar document called the National Security Strategic Outline was passed during a Politburo meeting in 2015.