Political security
Appearance
Political security is one of five sectors of analysis under the framework of the Copenhagen School of security studies.[1]
In the People's Republic of China, the term has been used by security and intelligence agencies to refer to maintaining the rule of and countering threats to the Chinese Communist Party.[2]
References
- ^ Collins, Alan (2007). Contemporary Security Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-19-928469-6.
- ^ Lulu, Jichang; Jirouš, Filip (2022-02-21). "Back to the Cheka: The Ministry of Public Security's political protection work" (PDF). Sinopsis. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 21, 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
The CCP security apparatus exploits foreign perceptions of the MPS as equivalent to their own police to further its state security mission. Foreign judiciaries and law enforcement agencies cooperating with the MPS and other organs in the CCP political and legal system become ancillary to the protection of the party's political security.