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Summary After weeks of tension, China stepped up security around possible protest sites in Beijing and Shanghai on Sunday.
Security forces kept a close watch over central Tiananmen Square, SWAT teams stood on guard near a planned protest site in Beijings bustling central Wangfujing shopping street and police also patrolled another planned protest site in Shanghai. The protest calls have overlapped with the convening of the annual national parliament session in Beijing, already a time for intense security measures.On Saturday, Chinas Finance Ministry unveiled to the parliament a 13.8 percent jump in the national public security budget compared to 2010, pushing spending on law and order items to 624.4 billion yuan (95.0 billion U.S. dollars), higher than the official military budget, which rose 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan.
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