The challenges you face Chinasuch as national security and tense international relations, led to a stern speech from the president Xi Jinping with the National Security Commission of the Communist Party.

At this week’s meeting, the Chinese leader stressed the “efforts to modernize and enhance national security capabilities”while asking his officials to prepare for “worst case scenarios” and “stormy seas”.

The president urged to remain “highly aware of the complicated and challenging circumstances facing national security” and to “clearly understand” the key issues it faces.

While he was not explicit about the issues threatening China’s security, the local press points to friction USAthe tension in the South China Sea or the question of Taiwan as the main concerns of the Chinese leadership.

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Some of Xi Jinping’s requests to the National Security Commission were improving national security education, managing data security and artificial intelligence, and establishing a national security risk monitoring system.

This emphasis on security is not new to the president’s administration, which has been in office since March 15, 2013. During his decade in power, Xi Jinping safety mechanisms in almost all areas of the country.

According to CNNthe president has drafted laws on the fight against terrorism, counterintelligence, cybersecurity, foreign non-governmental organizations, national intelligence agencies and data security.

The meeting said that the CCP has so far succeeded in “resolutely protecting national sovereignty, security and development interests”, but today’s problems are “significantly more complex and much more difficult to solve”.