Policemen ride motorized personal vehicles in front of a portrait of former Chairman Mao Zedong as they patrol Tiananmen Square during the opening ceremony of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing March 5, 2011. China’s spending on police and domestic surveillance will hit new heights this year, with “public security” outlays unveiled on Saturday outstripping the defence budget for the first time as Beijing cracks down on protest calls. Petar Kujundzic/ReutersInternal Security Tops Military In China Spending -- Wall Street Journal
China projected bigger spending on internal security than on defense in 2011–after spending more last year too–as the government tightens physical and technological controls to quash calls for a “Jasmine Revolution” like the one shaking the Arab world.
On the first day of the annual meeting of China’s legislature, a Finance Ministry budget report showed that actual spending on law and order last year was 548.6 billion yuan ($83.5 billion), slightly more than what was budgeted for the year.
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