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The Chinese People's Armed Police Force (abbreviated: PAP) is a Chinese paramilitary police (Gendarmerie) force primarily responsible for internal security, law enforcement and maritime rights protection in China, as well as providing support to the PLA Ground Force during wartime.
In the contrast to the People's Police officers in Public Security and other law enforcement agencies, PAP servicepersons, also called as "Armed Police officers and soldiers" (武警官兵), wear olive green instead of the blue uniforms of the People's Police.
The PAP is estimated to have a total strength of 1.5 million.
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People's Armed Police March To Stop a Protest Demonstration in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province
Fourteen platoons of the People's Armed Police Garrison in the city march and chant en route to break up a demonstration of protest by merchants and residents. The municipal government was demolishing several city blocks for a development project (which is all well and good). However and as is the standard swindle, the Party-Government paid the owners a fraction of the compensation due and told 'em to move out and go away.
Boyz in Beijing have the People's Armed Police, the 850,000 paramilitary domestic security force. PAP are organized in 48 divisions as part of the PLA and are garrisoned in every province and in cities of Tier 1-3 status. PAP are the Party's most trusted police. The population of China fears this force.
People's Armed Police are a part of the PLA.
Thanks for explaining. You said above that you won't have any revolution in China until its economic collapse happens. Just remember that the USSR finally died, and we all thought that would lead to an end to tyranny, and they ended up with Putin - another dictator. Yes, they have some capitalism just as China does, but dictators are still in charge so it's not a democracy after all. That may happen in China too if you're not more careful. What you need is a force that I guess will be built up through hackers. My advice would be to do the following:
1) Start a resistance group who will use violence just as the French resistance did. Be ruthless. Kill various targets. Steal what you need from the State (money, equipment, weapons).
2) Recruit the best hackers. They will need to find ways to allow members to text and go online invisibly.
3) Grow
4) Kill the best Chinese leaders
5) Hack into major Chinese propaganda centers (web, TV, newspapers) and put up your own messages
6) Tell people to sabotage the government. Tell them to support you. Organize rallies, demonstrations. Distribute weapons. Fight back.
Keep this up and you may have a chance.
If you ever succeed, in order to stop future Putins, you will need to kill all the Communist Party Members. Wipe them out. Don't be soft as Russia was. There will be plenty of Putins in those millions of members. At that point it might be hard but you must remember how many hundreds of millions communists have murdered. 20 or 30 million in return isn't much. Be open about it as Stalin was. Take them out into the country to gulags and let them die working. Be cruel - wipe them out. It's either that or you will have to suffer what Russia is currently suffering. Once you have all the commies in gulags you can build a proper democracy. For this you will need the West's help. America, England, Australia - we can all help you structure your new government. Take that advice. Put in place a similar constitution (if not identical) to the U.S.A. Have Americans help you organize your new world as was the case in Japan.
Also, you'll need to learn that Trump is one of the good guys. He hates commies and socialists.