Chinese Panel to Combine Foreign Policy and Domestic Security

China’s new national security committee will apparently differ from the National Security Council in Washington, on which it is modeled, in one crucial aspect: The Chinese version will have dual duties with responsibility over domestic security as well as foreign policy, Chinese experts say.

That means the new body will deal with cybersecurity, relations with Tibet and unrest in Xinjiang Province, where a restive Uighur population feels increasingly pressed by the ethnic Han majority, said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing and an occasional adviser to the government.

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Jane Perlez, The New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/2IhJTHQbMBo/