CCPLA: Tightening the CCP's Rule over Law
By Willy Lam
Beijing is beefing up its control apparatus to counter unprecedented challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration this year. Apart from on-going protests in the Greater Tibet Region, the police, state security, People’s Armed Police (PAP) and other units are bracing themselves against demonstrations, riots—and other “mass incidents” by tens of millions of unemployed workers and farmers. With the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown just two months away, the leadership under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao is also devoting more resources to monitoring the activities of dissident intellectuals—including those based in the United States. The Central Commission on Political and Legal Affairs (CCPLA), China’s highest-level law-enforcement agency, is masterminding multi-pronged tactics to ensure that the CCP’s mandate of heaven will not be torn asunder by destabilizing agents on disparate fronts.
By Willy Lam
Beijing is beefing up its control apparatus to counter unprecedented challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration this year. Apart from on-going protests in the Greater Tibet Region, the police, state security, People’s Armed Police (PAP) and other units are bracing themselves against demonstrations, riots—and other “mass incidents” by tens of millions of unemployed workers and farmers. With the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown just two months away, the leadership under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao is also devoting more resources to monitoring the activities of dissident intellectuals—including those based in the United States. The Central Commission on Political and Legal Affairs (CCPLA), China’s highest-level law-enforcement agency, is masterminding multi-pronged tactics to ensure that the CCP’s mandate of heaven will not be torn asunder by destabilizing agents on disparate fronts.
