Change of dynasty?Party media praises Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping without betting on Hu Xijin: those who embrace new opportunities | China

The front page of China’s “People’s Daily” on the 17th and 18th reappeared abnormally. For two consecutive days, there were no articles promoting Chinese President Xi Jinping, but Premier Li Keqiang, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Yang and Chairman of the National People’s Congress Li Zhanshu were listed one after another. Hu Xijin, a special commentator of the Global Times, immediately commented on Weibo: “This is a very important signal. Keep up with this signal, abandon doubt and hesitation, and embrace new opportunities.”

Recently, the CCP’s official media has praised Li Keqiang, and the outside world has also seen the strangeness of the CCP’s political situation. According to experts, Hu Xijin’s interpretation without any scruples is more like someone pointing out that a “change of power” is coming. Otherwise, with his guts, he should not dare to do this. It’s so presumptuous, after all, you might lose your head.

On the 14th, the official Chinese media “Xinhua News Agency” and “People’s Daily” published Li Keqiang’s speech of more than 9,000 words at the same time; on the 15th, the front page of the “People’s Daily” seemed to return to normal, no other senior CCP leaders appeared, and only propaganda about Xi Jinping was published. An article of “Every family is good, the country can be good, and the nation can be good – General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and leads the construction of family style and family style”; on the 16th, the front page of “People’s Daily” again did not let other CCP leaders appear. Published three reports on Xi Jinping, “Seeking Truth” magazine published an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping to correctly understand and grasp the major theoretical and practical issues of my country’s development, “Xi Jinping Sends a Congratulatory Message to the New UAE President Mohammed”, “Xi Jinping on the UAE President A message of condolences to the new UAE President Mohammed after Khalifa’s death”, the situation changed in the following two days.

There is speculation that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is about to seize power from Xi Jinping. Figure: Retrieved from Xinhuanet (file photo)

On the 17th, the front page of People’s Daily did not have an article about Xi Jinping, but it reported that “Li Keqiang had a phone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Shabazz” and “Wang Yang chaired a meeting of the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference”. Introduced—Increasing Confidence and Stabilizing Expectations for Market Entities On Weibo, and commented “This is a very important signal…”.

On the 18th, the front page of the People’s Daily still did not have an article about Xi Jinping, but it reported that “Li Zhanshu held talks with Rustam Emomali, the speaker of the upper house of the Tajikistan parliament”, “The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held “promoting the sustainable health of the digital economy”. Wang Yang attended and delivered a speech at the special consultation meeting on “development”. Wang Yang was on the front page for two days, Li Keqiang and Li Zhanshu were once each, and Xi Jinping disappeared silently on the front page of People’s Daily for two days.

The headline article on the front page of Xinhuanet on the 18th was “Solid Steps towards the Goal of Prevention and Control—Written at the Time of Shanghai’s Realization of Social Removal”, and it did not continue to promote Xi Jinping’s article. However, the first two articles on the news are the same as the People’s Daily, which were also reported by Li Zhanshu and Wang Yang. On the front page of the People’s Liberation Army Daily on the 18th, Xi Jinping was also disappeared.

“The Epoch Times” political commentator Jin Zhongyuan said today (18) that it is a rare coincidence that China’s three major party media have invariably ignored the promotion of Xi Jinping, or that Wang Huning, who is in charge of propaganda, intends to disrupt the situation, or that the CCP’s political situation has indeed happened. Major changes seem to be more confusing.

After the Wall Street Journal published the article “Li Keqiang Out of the Shadow of Xi Jinping” on the 11th, many media began to discuss Xi Jinping’s condition again, saying that he suffered from a brain aneurysm, but he was unwilling to undergo surgery and only accepted conservative treatment. The abnormal reappearance of the CCP media, especially the front page of the People’s Daily, has undoubtedly added more speculation to the outside world.

The health problems of the CCP leaders are generally not announced in time, and the sudden and abnormal changes of the CCP’s top leaders will not be announced in time, but the CCP media will reveal some clues. It is indeed unusual for Xi Jinping to disappear from the front page of the People’s Daily for two consecutive days, and Hu Xijin’s betting interpretation is even more incredible.

Hu Xijin said blatantly: “Following this signal, abandoning doubt and hesitation, and embracing new opportunities will prove to be true business heroes and heroes of the times.” Zhong Yuan further explained that Hu Xijin seemed to be afraid that some people would still not understand , only to directly say that Xi Jinping has fallen from power, and also expressly stated that he should not “doubt” and should quickly “embracing” the new top leader.

Zhong Yuan said that Hu Xijin’s life-threatening bet shows that if there is not a big problem with Xi Jinping’s health, or if there is a big problem at the top of the CCP, the power struggle may not really come to the bottom, but the showdown before the 20th National Congress seems to be coming. .