Does the Chinese secret police recruit citizens to spy on their colleagues like the former East German Stasi?

I would see no reason to believe otherwise.

@Oprah - Your statements are clearly false. Please try to present factual information on Y!A, along with references, such as the following:

"Local municipal police under the MPS used to be usually unarmed in contrast to the agents of the PAP; however since 2006 decision has been taken to issue sidearms to all frontline MPS personnel; the chosen firearm is a 9mm double-action revolver manufactured by the China North Industries Corporation.

There have been public complaints that the Public Security Bureaus (Abbreviation: PSB; Simplified Chinese: 公安局; pinyin: gōng ān jú), the provincial and municipal counterparts of the national MPS, are undermanned and unable to deal with what the public perceives to be the problem of rising crime."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Se...

Many have carried weapons long before 2006, as well.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Special_Weapo...

What "Chinese secret police" would that be? Chinese police do not even carry guns or tasers, unlike their American counterparts who routinely shoot people.

Chinese policemen don't need to be armed because there is so little violent crime in China. Compare that to the body count of 30,000 Americans killed by guns annually. Typical calls to the Chinese police involve noise disturbances and commercial disputes. Typical calls to American police are reports of "shots fired" or "man with a gun".

I realize that you want China to be a bad place, but it isn't. Your desire for China to be evil is a fantasy in your own mind that has nothing to do with reality. It's called psychosis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis

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