http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25890371The hyper-charged security, however, has put some Western governments on edge, caught between a desire to cooperate on terrorism threats and concern about aiding the policing of peaceful dissent. U.S. and other European governments complain they have offered information but that Chinese police give little in return.
“The Chinese definition of security threat is pretty broad, and in the context of the Olympics, it encompasses anyone who might seek to ’disrupt’ the games,” Drew Thompson, director of China studies at the Nixon Center in Washington, said in an e-mail.
For the communist regime, “it’s not about terrorism. It’s about security,” said one Western diplomat, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media. “It’s the current reason for expanding the entire scope of the police state.”
