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Chinese People''s Armed Police Force (abbreviated as armed police or armed police force) is one of the three major armed forces since the foundation of People’s Republic of China. It is led doubly by the Ministry of Public Security of State Council and the Central Military Commission. It is military force that belongs to the military series of Chinese Communists. Its main objective is to maintain the domestic political, social and economic stability, meanwhile, it also supports the People’s Liberation Army to perform military mission.
Since the foundation of armed police force, there are several layoff and merging due to different political intentions of the leader. However, after the XV Congress of Chinese Communist Party on September 1997, although the liberation army is cut by about 500 thousands military members, yet the armed police force was, on the contrary, expanded by 14 mobile divisions. The seasons might be due to four missions such as politics, economics, military requirement and social control. To the interior part, China has to face with the prosperous development of domestic economy, and under economic development, most people are thinking about political change, meanwhile, to the exterior part, China has to face with the threat of terrorism attack, hence, the armed police force is now developed into an indispensible and major force for keeping the Chinese Communist Regime. China is now the largest autocratic regime around the world, the pressure faced by China is worth of investigation and study. Under the double pressure of social control and terrorism attack, armed police force is now the best tool for Chinese Communists to keep its regime.
Since armed police force has the forces such as strong social control, economic construction and military attack, plus its high efficiency displayed in the past major natural disaster and emergency handling event, the Chinese Communist decision maker thus puts the control force of national security into the mission of armed police force. Therefore, the allocation and mission of Chinese armed police force does not show a decrease but show an increase after several military cuts in the liberation army, especially in three categories and 8 police forces, it can be divided into multiple mission task forces such as internal guard, special police, mobile division, anti-terrorism, emergency handling, border defense, economic production and military action. Based on the internal social stability keeping requirement, Chinese Communists have transformed the army into armed police force, and it is clear that Chinese Communists have seen the armed police force as the major force to keep the stability of national security. It is found from the research that: Armed police force has social stability keeping mission, it plays the leading force in social control, and it is the major force for Chinese Communists to maintain its regime, meanwhile, it could also be the fist force for Chinese Communist to take military action on Taiwan. It is hoped that the result of this study can be used as reference for future study.
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