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Security move aimed at ‘rattling nerves’

Source: AFP | November 14, 2013, Thursday |

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China’s decision to set up a national security committee is meant to rattle the nerves of those who mean to harm it, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

The move was announced in the communique on Tuesday at the end of the Party’s key four-day meeting in Beijing.

Foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang focused on domestic threats when asked about the committee at a regular news briefing.

“The establishment of the security committee will make forces like terrorism, separatism and extremism nervous,” he added. “In short, all the forces who want to threaten and sabotage China’s national security forces will get nervous.”

But he turned on the questioner, a reporter from the Japanese news agency Kyodo, asking him: “Are you going to compare Japan to those forces?”

China is embroiled in a bitter territorial row with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.

The security committee plan comes two weeks after a terrorist attack in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, and days after bomb blasts at a provincial Party headquarters blamed on a lone citizen reportedly intending to “take revenge on society.”

Qin said the purpose of the national security committee is “to improve the national security regime and national security strategy so as to ensure the security of the nation.”

In a commentary, Xinhua news agency said the plan came after “a series of security challenges at home and abroad.”

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