CCP Cuts Police Force, Experts Point to Economic Crisis and Past Collapses of Former Communist Regimes

Published on November 19, 2023

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has recently made cuts to the number of local police stations despite increasing social unrest. China observers believe it’s to address the crisis of shrinking of local government revenue caused by the decline of China’s economy, and a signal of eventual regime collapse similar to the eve of the former East European Communist Bloc’s collapsing in 1989. The Meizhou Daily, a local media in Meizhou City of Guangdong Province, reported on Nov. 10 that the Meizhou Municipal Public Security Bureau had announced the cancelation of Wuzhou Police Station and Dongshan Police Station. The official reason given was to “effectively integrate existing police resources.”...