Third plenum: China wants to be better prepared for strategic risks like economic sanctions
- The top leadership has vowed to improve ‘early warning’ systems to identify threats to its interests and investments overseas
Beijing has vowed to improve “early warning” systems to better protect national security related to foreign affairs and its overseas interests – a move analysts say is about identifying strategic risks like the threat of economic sanctions.
A lengthy document with the full text of those decisions was released on Sunday, with a section on building the mechanisms needed to ensure national security in foreign affairs.
It calls national security “a pivotal foundation for ensuring steady and sustained progress in Chinese modernisation”.
“We will strengthen the institutions and mechanisms for early warning, prevention and control, and protection against risks to China’s interests and investments overseas and deepen international law enforcement cooperation in the realm of security,” it reads.
This is to “protect the lawful rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal entities overseas”.
