In face of virus curbs protests, China security forces ready to quash dissent - BusinessMirror

When it comes to ensuring the security of their regime, China’s Communist Party rulers don’t skimp.

BEIJING—

The officers fanned out, checking IDs and searching cellphones for photos, messages or banned apps that might show involvement in or even just sympathy for the protests. After the Tiananmen crackdown, the party invested in the means to deal with unrest without resorting immediately to using deadly force.

The government responded with overwhelming force in 2008, when anti-government riots broke out in Tibet’s capital Lhasa and unrest swept through Tibetan regions in western China, authorities responded with overwhelming force. The published figure for internal security exceeded the defense budget for the first time in 2010. By 2013, China stopped providing a breakdown. The US think tank Jamestown Foundation estimated that internal security spending had already reached 113 percent of defense spending by 2016.

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