Radio Free Asia reported (April 27) that, after taking down Sun Lijun, the Deputy Minister of Public Security, Xi Jinping’s followers held three emergency meetings: an emergency meeting of the Ministry of Public Security on April 20, an emergency meeting of the Secret Service Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security on April 21, and an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Legal Affairs Commission on April 22. At the Secret Service Bureau’s meeting, Wang Xiaohong, Executive Deputy Minister of Public Security and Director of the Secret Service Bureau stated, “(We) must increase the monitoring of the ‘top leaders’ decision-making power, staff appointment power, and financial approval power, to let the ‘top leaders’ get used to working and living under monitoring.” It said at the emergency meeting, Wang Xiaohong also hinted that it was the Secret Service Bureau that arrested Sun Lijun.

(Comment: RFA also said that the Secret Service Bureau, when established in May of last year, was designed to provide security protection for “Four ‘Deputies’ and Two ‘Supremes’” – the Vice President, the Deputy Prime Ministers, the Vice Chairmen of the National People’s Congress, the Vice Chairmen of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the President of the Supreme Court, and the President of the Supreme Procuratorate. The four number-one persons (President, Premier, Chairman of the National People’s Congress, and Chairman of the CPPCC) are members of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee. The Central Security Bureau provides the security protection for all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee and for retired top CCP leaders. However, Wang Xiaohong’s mentioning of the ‘top leader’ might indicate that the Secret Service Bureau has been expanded to monitor the head of each of the CCP Central Committee’s organs and the head of national, ministerial, and provincial governments, such as Provincial Party Secretaries, Ministers, and Ministerial Party Secretaries, etc.)