Epoch Times: An upcoming exclusive report by The Epoch Times, “The Structure of the CCP’s Security Organs: From Central Rosters to Front-Line Operational Units,” maps the CCP’s security apparatus from its central ministries down to its front-line units.
The central finding of the report, which draws on Western and Chinese scholarship, leaked budget figures, court records, and the Party’s own documents, is that the Party does not rely on one feared agency to do its watching. It assigns the job to everyone else—local police, neighborhood monitors, employers, universities, landlords, and 10 million to 15 million ordinary citizens recruited to report what they notice.
That vast surveillance network, sitting below a police force of nearly 2 million, allows the Party to reach places where no police force can go…