Radio Free Asia reported that, after the taking down of 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.”
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.
At the emergency meeting, Wang also hinted that it was the Secret Service Bureau that arrested Sun Lijun.
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Excerpt in Chinese:
中共公安部副部长孙力军于4月19日被公布落马后，习家军连续召开三个紧急会议：4月20日，公安部紧急会议；4月21日，特勤局紧急会议；4月22日，政法委紧急会议。
在特勤局的紧急会议上，该局局长王小洪宣称：“加强对‘一把手’决策权、用人权、财务审批权等的监督，使‘一把手’习惯在监督的状态下工作生活。”
这里的“一把手”指的是谁？这涉及特勤局的职能。去年5月才忽然成立的这个新部门，按照习当局说法是负责“四副两高”，也包括“四副两高”之下的领导人之安全保卫。所谓“四副两高”指的是：副主席、副总理、副委员长、政协副主席。习当局的说法是，中央警卫局负责七常委和政治老人的安全保卫；除此之外的安全保卫，就交由特勤局负责。
说是安全保卫，实际上更是监视监控。尤其新成立的特勤局，暗示它更多的是监视和监控职能。这一回，王小洪嘴里的“一把手”覆盖面更广，远远超出了特勤局设立之初的覆盖范围。所谓“一把手”，就包括国务院总理、人大委员长、政协主席、省委书记、部长或各部党组书记，等等。按理，身兼总书记、国家主席、军委主席的习近平才是“一把手”中的“一把手”，但是显然，王小洪要监督的“一把手”绝不包括习近平。说穿了，王小洪和特勤局要监督的，是除习近平之外的所有党和国家领导人。所谓监督，就是监视和监控的代名词。
王小洪是习近平的亲信和心腹，早年在福州市任公安局副局长时，曾专门负责时任福州市委书记习近平的安全保卫，由此成为习家军人物。去年11月，历经高层权斗激烈的四中全会后，习近平任命王小洪出任特勤局长兼党委书记。那时，王小洪已经身兼多职：公安部党组副书记、常务副部长，北京市公安局长。
在4月21日的特勤局紧急会议上，王小洪通报孙力军案暗示，抓捕孙力军似乎正是特勤局所为（孙力军或因政变、或因泄密而被抓）；而他话锋一转，就提出要加强对“一把手”的监督。他传达的是习近平的意思：把（除习近平之外的）所有党和国家领导人都看管起来！
Source: Radio Free Asia, April 27, 2020
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/chenpokong/js-04272020121624.html/ampRFA