2024-03-16 12:54:00
Lying down is popular among CCP officials. The picture shows representatives of the CCP Two Sessions sleeping soundly on March 13, 2016. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, March 16, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Luo Ya) A speech by Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping at the beginning of the year was published in the Chinese Communist Party media yesterday (15th). Xi suggested that the party should not fear his anti-corruption campaign. Experts believe that this shows that Xi is dissatisfied with the redress of party cadres, but the party is also dissatisfied with him, and his lectures will have little effect.
On March 15, the CCP’s “Qiushi” website published Xi Jinping’s article, indicating that it was part of Xi’s speech at the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on January 9, 2023.
What is striking about the article is that it states that the purpose of the authorities’ so-called “comprehensive and strict administration of the Party” is “not to control people to death, to make them hesitant and fearful, and to turn them into a stagnant pool of lifeless and inactive people.” It is to “Make rules” and so on. Xi also requires cadres to “exercise enthusiasm, initiative and creativity.”
Ding Shufan, an honorary professor at the School of International Affairs at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University, told The Epoch Times on March 16 that Xi’s words hinted at the problem of officials being held accountable. In fact, this problem has existed for a long time, starting with Xi’s first term, Wang Qishan, who helped him fight corruption. , many CCP cadres have become very passive in their work.
“It’s been a few years now, and it’s obvious that cadres are getting better and better. Xi Jinping is probably aware of this, so on the one hand, we need to strictly manage, and on the other hand, we need to make cadres responsible and able to take the initiative to do something.”
However, Ding Shufan believes that Xi’s personal lectures will not help the situation and no one will take him seriously. “Because your standards are not specific, the bureaucracy basically has to have a bottom line and standards before it can do things. So I think the cadres should take a look at it, and of course they should be perfunctory on the surface.”
The article repeatedly emphasized that the CCP, as a “major party,” “faces special difficulties in governing the party and the country,” especially “how to always unify its thinking.” Xi mentioned the phenomenon of “small hills, small circles, and small gangs,” and also pointed out that officials are affected by the diversification of social interests and diversification of ideas, etc.
Lai Rongwei, CEO of the Taiwan Inspirational Association (TIA), told The Epoch Times on March 16 that under the background of the international community’s containment of the CCP, the confrontation between the United States and China, the decline of China’s economy, and the people’s increasing opposition to the CCP, Xi Jinping felt deeply about various situations within the party. worry. This article reflects that Xi is pessimistic about the CCP’s ability to maintain its ideology; in addition, he knows that there are people within the party who are forming cliques to oppose his various actions since taking office.
“Xi Jinping is not only on the left politically, but also on the economic side. Some of the institutional rules since Deng Xiaoping have been broken. There are bound to be anti-Xi voices in the party. Now that Xi Jinping is in power, the anti-Xi voices have been quietly silenced, but that does not represent them. Not gathering.”
After Xi Jinping was re-elected for a third term at the 20th National Congress, the party media published new CCP Party Disciplinary Punishment Regulations on December 27, 2023, which stipulated a large number of “violations of political discipline”. The most serious problems include “organizing or participating in secret groups or “Organizing other activities to split the party”; and “creating gangs within the party” and so on.
Lai Rongwei said that the CCP’s slogan of strict party governance has never stopped, and he believes that it will only become more frequent in the future.
Ding Shufan said that through Xi’s centralization of power, the CCP’s institutions are getting bigger and bigger, turning into a behemoth. Many bureaucrats want to keep their jobs, so they have to listen to Xi’s instructions. But they also know that being too proactive can cause problems. Because they don’t know where Xi Jinping’s bottom line is, even Li Qiang has stopped holding prime minister’s press conferences recently. This is also a sign of lying down.
“On the one hand, the party’s institutions are getting bigger and bigger, and on the other hand, cadres are becoming more and more passive. And the bureaucracy has occupied most of the country’s resources. This is really not a good thing for China.”
At the beginning of this year, Li Xi, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, announced that in 2023, a total of 87 cadres under central management were filed for review, and a total of 626,000 cases were filed by discipline inspection and supervision agencies across the country. The authorities have announced at the same time that they will next focus on anti-corruption in the fields of finance, energy, medicine and infrastructure, as well as state-owned enterprises.
Since last year, the authorities have emphasized opening up to the outside world and attracting foreign investment, but at the same time they have revised the counterespionage law, allowing the Ministry of National Security to step into the forefront in a high-profile manner. Xi Jinping’s approach of putting security above the economy has caused many doubts in the past.
Ding Shufan said that Xi’s entire governance model is problematic. The result is: Although cadres usually lie down, they clearly know that Xi Jinping attaches more and more importance to security, and security is higher than economic development. “So in terms of economic development, they will not take the initiative, but in terms of national security, cadres will definitely take the initiative.”
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