In a sign of the government’s growing concern over unrest at home and the rise of hostile forces “surrounding China,” two senior generals pledged Thursday to boost the combat effectiveness of the nation’s 1-million-strong paramilitary police. Since the widely condemned 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown that saw soldiers shoot at unarmed civilians, China’s Communist Party has taken aggressive steps to beef up the People’s Armed Police, or PAP. Full Story