Beijing Locked Down Ahead of National Party Congress

Hundreds of thousands of security personnel have been mobilized in Beijing ahead of the 18th Party Congress, to be held this fall, when the top leadership will hand over power.
Beijing Locked Down Ahead of National Party Congress
Tiananmen Gate at sunset on June 9, 2012 in Beijing. Beijing has issued strict security orders and mobilized troops and armed police to prevent any protest incidents in the capital before and during the Party's 18th National Congress. Feng Li/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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Tiananmen Gate at sunset

Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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