Comprehensive security — or even "securitisation" — in domestic and international relations has become a near-obsession in Chinese politics since Xi Jinping took power in 2012 and 2013.
Security, in the understanding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is first and foremost ensuring the survival of its Leninist-Maoist power monopoly and socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Other security dimensions are built around this core interest, like onion peels.
It is not by c...
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Dr Peter Hefele is policy director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the think tank of the European People's Party.