Xi Sees Threats to China’s Security Everywhere Heading Into 2021

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Xi Jinping, left, is applauded by senior members of the government at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in October.Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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In Xi Jinping’s China, nearly everything is becoming a national security issue.

This month Xi called on Communist Party officials in the 25-member Politburo to build a “holistic national security architecture” that would extend to “all aspects of the work of the party and the country.” He listed 10 components, including “safeguarding” China’s one-party political system and focusing more on “forestalling and defusing national security risks.”