China Security Chief Urges Terror Fight in Nighttime Visits

As China’s top leaders prepared this week to unveil their economic agenda for the next decade in Beijing, the nation’s security minister was paying unannounced, after-dark visits to the city’s subway stations.

Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun donned “civilian clothes” and stopped in Tiananmen East subway station, surprising commuters and police officers alike on Nov. 4, his ministry said in a statement yesterday. Guo warned officers to be vigilant after an attack outside the Forbidden City and prevent other strikes ahead of the Nov. 9-12 Communist Party conclave.