: China has stepped up security on its border with India, North Korea and Myanmar ahead of the key Communist Party Congress next month.
The once-in-a-five-year meet is China’s most important political event. The authorities would not like to risk any event which disrupts the meeting where Chinese President Xi Jinping will get a second five-year term.
China’s border police will maintain the highest security on the country’s frontiers with North Korea, India and Myanmar as the Communist Party gears up for its all-important Congress, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning said in a report.
“(We will) stick to the highest standards, strictest requirements and strongest measures to ensure absolute border security for the party’s 19th national Congress,” the report quoted an official statement as saying.
China has a long-running border dispute with India. The two countries have 3,488 km of de facto boundary, most of which is disputed.
