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Fact Page...
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"FACT" page contains references to issues discussed by
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| CPPCC:
Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference |
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The CPPCC is an organization of the united front with
wide representation. It is an important organ of
multi-party cooperation and political consultation under
the leadership of the CPC. It is composed of the CPC,
other political parties, mass organizations, and
representative public personages from all walks of life,
representatives of compatriots of Taiwan, Hong Kong and
Macao as well as of returned overseas Chinese and other
specially invited people.
NPC (National People's Congress
NPC)
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/lh2003/index.htm
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/lh2004.htm
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/
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| PLA (People's
Liberation Army) Soldiers, Tiananmen Square |
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| Chinese People’s
Armed Police Force |
The Chinese People’s Armed Police
Force (or People’s Armed Police, PAP)
was established in April 1983 by merging PLA units that
were responsible for guarding leading party and government
departments and key installations, with armed and border
defence police as well as fire brigades formerly under the
leadership of Ministry of Public Security
(MPS) and local public security bureaus
(police departments). According to the Chinese
constitution, the PAP is one the three main elements of
the Chinese armed forces (PLA, PAP and militia/reverse
forces). Sizable numbers of demobilised PLA personnel have
been absorbed by the PAP since the mid-1980s.
Source: http://www.sinodefence.com/army/orbat/pap.asp |
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| The People's Armed Police (PAP) in the picture is a bodyguard of Chinese diplomats in Iraq. |
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| Chinese Political Officers
and Politicians:
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PLA General
Xiong Guangkai
HEAD OF CHINESE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Two years after
firing missiles at Taiwan, Gen. Xiong, then second in
command of the People's Liberation Army, threatened to
vaporize Los Angeles.
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| China's "Laogai" Labor
Reform System |
| The laogai labor
reform system is a vast network of 4,000-6,000 prison camps
stretching across the People's Republic of China, holding perhaps
millions of prisoners. In terms of scope, cruelty, and the number
of people imprisoned, the laogai equal the concentration camps of
Nazi Germany or the gulags of the Soviet Union. They are unique,
however, in their use of "thought reform". Inmates in
the laogai are not only forced to perform hard labor to atone for
their crimes. They are also required to abandon their
"incorrect" beliefs and attitudes and conform to the
standards set by the Communist Party. - more
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