China's army forms security unit for Olympics
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The Chinese army has formed a security unit, consisting of ground, navy and air force personnel, for next year's Olympic Games, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists in Mogadishu.
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WASHINGTON -- China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for launching surprise attacks, potentially far from its borders, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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China is ready to stamp out hostile forces, defuse popular unrest and the Falun Gong "cult", cut crime and clean up cyberspace to ensure the success of a key Communist Party meeting next month, the police chief said.
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China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for launching surprise attacks, potentially far from its borders, the Pentagon said Friday.
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The head of the FBI said on Wednesday he expects Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games to be "secure and safe" while offering China help against potential threats.
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Chinese and Indian border troops have  held their first-ever joint mountaineering exercise as part of  a program to improve understanding along the historically tense  border between the world's two most populous countries.
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Troops from a special national security force will guard the streets of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro during next month's Pan American Games rather than fight drug gangs in the slums, the mayor said on Tuesday.
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Some American companies are helping China design and install one of the most comprehensive high-tech public surveillance systems in the world.
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China will spend considerably less on Olympic security than recent host countries, but organizers said they were confident the safety of the 2008 Games could be ensured at a low cost.
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China and Russia will jointly hold a first-ever military exercise next year, visiting Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterday.
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Beijing is to deploy 1,000 police every morning on Tiananmen Square 'to escort visitors'.
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China and the United States plan to set up a defense hotline, one of Beijing's top generals said on Saturday, a move aimed at improving military relations as Washington grows increasingly wary of China's military buildup.
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Beijing will deploy about 80 sniffer dogs to patrol the subway system to sniff out flammable products such as fireworks before the Chinese New Year next month, state media reported on Wednesday.
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China's top cop said terrorism is the biggest threat at its Olympic Games, and a leading terror expert warned Tuesday that Beijing faces a long-term threat from an Islamic separatist group in its far west.
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Chinese officials are treating the Games as proud confirmation of their country's emergence as a global force to be reckoned with.
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China sent 95 riot police to join United Nations&#39; peacekeepers in Haiti to help increase security in the Caribbean island nation, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said.