中国:中央国家安全委員会初次開會

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

中国 中央国家安全委員会 初の開催

4月15日 23時22分

中国共産党が新設した中央国家安全委員会の初めての会議が１５日開かれ、経済の混乱や西側の民主的な価値観の浸透などを共産党政権の安定を揺るがす脅威と位置づけて、習近平国家主席がトップダウンで対応する姿勢が鮮明になりました。

中国国営の新華社通信によりますと、中央国家安全委員会の初めての会議には、トップを務める習近平国家主席のほか、李克強首相ら共産党と国の要職を占めるメンバーが出席しました。
演説した習主席は「委員会の目的は、わが国が直面している新しい情勢に適応し、統一的で効率がよい国家の安全保障体制を作ることだ」と述べました。
そして、「安全保障は、外部と内部、伝統的と非伝統的ともに重視しなければならない」としたうえで、軍事に加え、経済、文化、情報など１１にわたる分野を列挙して、「これらを一体とした安全保障体系の構築」を指示しました。
これは、軍事だけでなく、金融危機などによる経済の混乱のほか、インターネットなどを通じて西側の民主的な価値観が浸透することなどを共産党政権の安定を揺るがす脅威と位置づけていることを示しており、委員会の発足によって習主席がトップダウンで対応する姿勢が鮮明になりました。

(試譯文)

The first meeting of Central National Security Council which was newly established by the Communist Party of China was held on the 15^th. Viewing the economic turmoils and the penetration of the western democratic sense of values etc. as threats that could shake the stability of the Communist Party government, the posture of PRC President Xi Jinping’s top-down response became clear.

According to the China government managed Xinhua News Agency, besides PRC President Xi Jinping who was at the top post, Prime Minister Li Keqiang and other members who were occupying important posts of the Communist Party and the country also attended the first meeting of this Central National Security Council.

PRC President Xi Jinping made a speech to say that "the purpose of the committee is to make a unified and efficient security framework for the state which is adapting to new situations that our country is facing".

Then he directed that "for security protections, the external and the internal, the traditional and the nontraditional, all have to be considered as important". In addition to military affairs, eleven fields covering such as the economy, culture, and information were enumerated, and that "all these are to be consolidated into one single unit in the construction of the security system".

It showed that not only the military affairs, but also the monetary crisis and the turmoil in the economy etc. together with the western democratic sense of values permeated through the Internet were all regarded as threats which could shake the stability of the Communist Party government. The commencement of the Council made clear the posture of PRC President Xi Jinping’s top-down response.

It is worrying to note that western democratic sense of values permeated through the Internet would be regarded as threats to the stability of the Communist Party government.