LIANYUNGANG, Jiangsu: China will train thousands of law enforcement officers from different countries over the next 12 months, its police chief said on Monday ( Sep 9 ), as it seeks to cement its role as a global security provider.
Public security minister Wang Xiaohong stated in a conversation at a convention in eastern China that authorities from China had trained 2,700 soldiers in the past month and are planning to coach 3, 000 more over the next year.
” We will ( also ) send police consultants to developing nations to train them to quickly and effectively strengthen their law enforcement capabilities,” Wang said.
The safety meeting held in the port town of Lianyungang in Jiangsu state drew law enforcement officers from 122 countries, regions and international organisations, including Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and international police body Interpol.
The monthly Lianyungang conference is understood as a component of the Global Security Initiative ( GSI) that Chinese leader Xi Jinping proposed in 2022, which aims to address global issues through international cooperation.
Analysts have but claimed that the GSI is a way to undermine the current US-led security order and expand China’s global influence.
” It’s almost like saying’ if you do n’t like the Western way of doing things, we’ve got the Chinese alternative'”, Benjamin Ho, an assistant professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies ‘ China Programme, told AFP.
” So certainly, China is trying to highlight some of these ( policing ) initiatives in a big way, and that’s part and parcel of its jostling for influence vis-a-vis the West”, Ho said.
Law enforcement was “politicized,” Wang claimed in a discourse addressed to hundreds of convention attendees.
” Standard international cooperation has been demonised”, Wang said, adding that China “rejects any type of hegemonism and bullying”.
Additionally, he noted that regional security threats are still being” flow over,” including those posed by the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the issue in the Ukraine, and the conflicts in the Red Sea.