[Epoch Times, May 12, 2022]Hello everyone, I’m Tang Hao, how are you today?
Today’s focus:Xi JinpingThe downfall is spread everywhere, and Xi makes a counterattack? Beijing bombarded the new battlefield, revealing that there are ghosts looking for the United States to study back? Zhongnanhai struggle for life and death, three possible outcomes?
We talked a few days ago that after Shanghai was closed, it was invaded by a group of “foreign forces”, do you remember? This group of foreign forces unscrupulously occupied the Shanghai subway station, and their behavior was quite arrogant. According to the intelligence of the national security unit, some people call them “meow people”, and it is true that they are from abroad. However, new members of this group of foreign forces have now joined.
see it? This new breed of foreign forces has also appeared on the streets of Shanghai. Although we don’t know which planet it came from, it must be full of threats to the party. Fortunately, it has been trapped by the socialist iron bars set up by the party. I don’t know what new foreign forces will appear next?
Well, after reading the latest developments of foreign forces, let’s talk about today’s topic.
At present, a topic of great concern to the international community and the global Chinese is the political situation in Zhongnanhai in Beijing.Xi JinpingWas there a coup d’etat? Has Xi Jinping ceded his power? This is a very hot topic right now. We touched on this topic a little bit last week, but more information has come out in the past few days, so let’s have an in-depth chat with you.
First of all, in order to help everyone understand the coup d’état more clearly, let’s sort out the ins and outs of the whole incident. In fact, we have said that since Shanghai suddenly announced the closure of the city at the end of March, the epidemic in Shanghai has seen many unexpected and out-of-control phenomena. In fact, behind this has been hidden the fierce tactics of Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin’s Shanghai Gang.
In particular, Ye Jingzi, the granddaughter of the CCP’s founding marshal Ye Jianying, took the initiative to speak out. She revealed on Weibo that “it is impossible for no one to deliberately cause trouble” in Shanghai’s epidemic prevention and control. How can this be done? The loss is bigger than Ukraine.” Ye Jingzi’s implication was to warn that some people were taking advantage of the Shanghai epidemic to engage in political struggles, and as a result, the people suffered.
But this CCP high-level infighting continued to escalate, and finally escalated to Jiang’s coercion against the Xi faction. On April 23, Duowei.com, an overseas media with the background of the Jiang faction, published an article discussing how the selection process of Singapore’s fourth-generation prime minister’s successor could bring to the CCP, and also said that the 200-odd Central Committee of the CCP should be The committee members come together to elect new leaders.
That obviously shows that the Jiang faction is launching a public opinion war through overseas media and openly questioning the legitimacy of Xi Jinping’s re-election as the third party leader, which is equivalent to openly “forcing the palace” against Xi. Three days later, on the 26th, Duowei.com suddenly announced that it would stop operating, citing an “internal news business adjustment.” As soon as I heard this reason, I knew that it was false. What business needs to be adjusted to close the entire website? Apparently, this site’s business has been completely cancelled. To put it bluntly, it was the Jiang faction’s website that forced Xi Jinping, and as a result, Xi counterattacked.
Then, just around May 4th, the anniversary of the “May 4th Movement”, overseas rumors began to spread one after another, claiming that Xi Jinping had suffered a coup and was forced to “cede” power to Li Keqiang. Sit on the seat until the 20th National Congress, and then publicly abdicate and announce the handover.
The breaking news also said that Jiang Zemin operated the military forces, while Hu Jintao and Zeng Qinghong operated the inner-party forces to launch this coup against Xi, and Wang Qishan and Wang Huning would carry out the coup. Hold him accountable, but everything about Xi Jinping’s personality cult will be taken off the shelves, and Xi’s power will be slowly emptied, waiting for him to step down after the 20th National Congress.
Well, let’s look at this plot, it sounds a bit reasonable, but there are many doubts and contradictions. For example, Jiang Zemin is already in his 90s. He has been in very bad health a few years ago, and has almost completely disappeared recently. Can he still personally intervene and operate the army?
In addition, Hu Jintao was in power for 10 years from 2002 to 2012, and he was completely overridden by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. For 10 years, “decrees did not go out of Zhongnanhai”, and he was assassinated many times by the Jiang faction because Jiang Zemin wanted to arrange Zeng Qinghong Replacing Hu Jintao as party leader. Therefore, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao also joined forces to fight back, arresting Bo Xilai, a general of the Jiang faction, paving the way for Xi Jinping to take over as party leader and preventing the Jiang faction from seizing power. In this case, can Hu Jintao still cooperate with the Jiang faction? Very unlikely, right?
In addition, let’s think about it, if someone wants to stage a coup d’etat, when the enemy is settled, they will usually announce to the world immediately that we have successfully seized power, and now we have the final say. Why? Because it is necessary to have a righteous name in order to “speak well”, if the coup d’état really has the upper hand, then it will quickly announce a change of dynasty to the outside world and oust the old master. Fighting; on the other hand, it is also to call on the hearts of the people all over the world and to listen to the orders of the new government.
Like the 2016 coup in Turkey, that’s it. As soon as the army that launched the coup d’etat captured state TV, they announced through the TV that they had taken over Turkey and what they would do next. But in fact, at that time, the army of the coup d’état had not really achieved an absolute advantage, but they were the first to announce the takeover of the country. Why? It is to fight the war of public opinion, to establish its own legitimacy, and to “follow the truth in its name”, in order to call on more people to support it. However, the coup failed in the end.
From another perspective, we look back on the 70-year history of the CCP’s establishment. The power struggles between the top leaders of the CCP are very cruel and razor-sharp. We have never seen any leader forced to “give half of it to the palace”. “of. Whether it was Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang or Zhao Ziyang, they were all forced to step down and hand over their positions after being forced into the palace. At most, give them a title without real power, but they won’t let them finish their term, why? Avoid long night dreams.
In the CCP’s court struggle, as long as the enemy still holds power for one day, he will not be able to sleep for a day, because this is a life-and-death struggle. Therefore, the news of the coup d’état spread overseas this time, saying that Xi Jinping will remain in power until the end of his term is actually the same as calling Zhao Lijian “love Taiwan”, which is impossible.
However, not long after the overseas coup broke the news, on May 5, the party media reported that Xi Jinping held a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Xi Jinping said that he would “unswervingly insist”Dynamic clear‘The general policy is to resolutely fight against all words and deeds that distort, doubt, and deny my country’s anti-epidemic policies and policies.’ As we said in the last episode, this speech is quite high-profile, which is equivalent to a political declaration of war against the anti-Xi faction forces, and at the same time, it is also “refuting rumors” of overseas coup news.
It’s just that, although this news lasted for more than five minutes, it was broadcast by mouth, and the anchor read the manuscript without any live pictures or photos. Some people wondered if this meeting was even held? Is it fake? In my opinion, this meeting is likely to be held by video conference, so why not meet face-to-face? One possible reason is that everyone avoids gatherings because of the epidemic; another possible reason is that because the infighting is too fierce, Xi Jinping does not easily meet other people for safety.
However, although Xi has refuted the rumors, the wonderful thing is that just after the news of the coup d’etat came out, the signs mentioned in the revelations did appear. For example, some netizens claimed that when he visited the Xinhua Bookstore, he could not find any books promoting Xi Jinping, and it was said that they had been removed from the shelves. Moreover, starting from May 7, on the front page of the CCP media “People’s Daily”, there was no news of Xi Jinping’s public activities for three consecutive days, which made many people wonder if Xi Jinping was really “taken off the shelf”. ?
In addition, Xi Jinping disappeared from the media after the Politburo activities on April 30, and all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee disappeared collectively. This strange and rare media atmosphere is even more suspicious. Even on CCTV’s signature program “News Network”, from May 6th to 8th, although Xi Jinping appeared in the headlines, these were not new public events, but pre-produced special reports.
It is worth noting that on May 7, the party media reported that Li Keqiang held a “national video and teleconference on stabilizing employment”. This news took less than two minutes, and like Xi Jinping’s meeting report, there was only an oral reading of the dry draft, and no The scene picture, but it does show that Li Keqiang has new public activities.
To put it simply, after the overseas news of a coup d’etat, Xi Jinping’s exposure on the party media dropped significantly; but when Xi Jinping disappeared from the party media, Li Keqiang appeared. Is this a coincidence? Or are there really anti-Xi factions that are cooperating inside and outside, and are attacking Xi Jinping through public opinion wars at home and abroad? I think it’s very possible. From the closure of Duowei.com, to overseas self-media revelations, and changes in domestic party media reports, there are sharp confrontations between Xi Jinping and anti-Xi factions.
The coup confrontation must have the right to give up the throne, but there is still no
It’s just that, although the struggle within the CCP is getting more and more acute and mesa, has Xi Jinping really abdicated and handed over power? I don’t think so. Xi Jinping must have been challenged and attacked by the party, and suffered setbacks, so he became low-key and compromised with the anti-Xi factions.
For example, Beijing is preparing to relax regulations on technology companies so that technology companies can expand their operation scale; at the same time, Beijing has also reported that it is preparing to relax restrictions, so that Alibaba, JD.com, Baidu and other companies listed in the United States can provide information for the United States Regulatory review.
Why are these moves called Xi Jinping’s “compromise” with anti-Xi factions? Because these companies have been severely regulated by Beijing, their revenue and profits have been greatly affected, and these large companies are all related to the interests of high-ranking CCP officials. In other words, Xi Jinping’s supervision of these companies is equivalent to offending everyone in the party. High officials and powerful families.
But now Xi not only made a “big tea bag” in the prevention and control of the domestic epidemic, big trouble, that is, big trouble, but also caused the Chinese economy to decline, foreign capital and foreign companies are scrambling to withdraw from China; coupled with the misjudgment of Russia and Ukraine In the war, choosing the wrong side and standing in the wrong team has made China the target of international warnings and containment, so Xi Jinping will definitely encounter mass encirclement and counterattacks within the party. It is also conceivable that he chose to take a step back and compromise with other forces in the party.
Xi is under pressure to try to fight back
However, although Xi Jinping has stepped back and compromised, he has not delegated power and should be planning a counterattack. So far, at least it can be seen that he has a few moves.
Counterattack 1: Party media’s high-profile publicity and public appearances to refute rumors
First, the party media began to promote Xi Jinping in a high-profile manner, and he also made public appearances to refute rumors of the coup.
On May 9, the party media reported the news that Xi Jinping held a video conference with the German Chancellor. The news not only contained photos and pictures, but CCTV also made a long report of nearly 6 minutes. In fact, the content of the news was basically The above is a very typical meeting between the leaders of the two countries. Most of them are in official language, and there are not many highlights or new things. However, the party media did a 6-minute report in one breath, obviously to consolidate Xi Jinping’s presence and status.
Moreover, just after this news, the news network announced that Xi Jinping will deliver an important speech at the meeting of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth League on May 10. Moreover, several major party media of the CCP also issued notices two days in advance, emphasizing that the party media will broadcast Xi’s speech live on that day.
And the headline of the People’s Daily on May 10, again, was dominated by Xi Jinping. These signs show that Xi Jinping should have come prepared, and specially arranged a high-profile media exposure and propaganda war to counter the public opinion war at home and abroad.
Counterattack 2: Shout to PerseveranceDynamic clear Secure Twenty Victories
The second counterattack: shout again and insist on dynamic clearing to ensure the top 20 victories
On the day that Xi Jinping returned to the party media to appear on the media, his anti-epidemic pioneer Sun Chunlan also re-emphasized at a meeting that he would “unswervingly adhere to the general policy of dynamic clearing”, “for the party’s 20th National Congress.” Victory held to create a good environment.”
Well, Sun Chunlan shouted “dynamic clearing” again on the day Xi Jinping appeared, which means Xi Jinping once again called out to the princes in the party. Small actions, we must unswervingly follow the Party Central Committee.
Moreover, this time Sun Chunlan also specifically mentioned that “dynamic clearing” will affect the “Twenty Victories”. In my opinion, this actually has something to say. Literally, it means that only by defeating the epidemic can Xi Jinping’s second The top ten went smoothly and re-elected beautifully. Besides, it should also imply that the battle to clear the epidemic is actually closely related to the political game at the top of the CCP, so Xi cannot give up the clearing no matter what, and he has to stick to this line. Go to the end or you will lose everything.
Counterattack 3: Implying that someone has joined forces with the United States to reverse Xi Jinping
The third counterattack: implying that someone has joined forces with the United States to reverse Xi Jinping
I don’t know if you have noticed, there is a very unexpected news in the past two days. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a lengthy report on May 8, claiming that the U.S. “National Endowment for Democracy(National Endowment for Democracy) has been involved in many countries, instigated “color revolutions”, overthrew several anti-Western regimes, and established a new pro-American regime.
The next day, Zhao Lijian was asked about this report at a press conference. Zhao Lijian turned into Zhao Zhanlang again, and he heavily bombarded this report.National Endowment for Democracy, and said that the foundation was the “Second CIA.” Of course, these remarks are all from the official perspective of the CCP, so we won’t talk about it more.
However, the National Endowment for Democracy is actually a semi-official organization of the United States. Its funds are sponsored by the United States Congress and are mainly used to support the promotion of democratic development, press freedom and human rights movements in countries around the world. Of course, these keywords are the most taboo universal values of the CCP, so it is not surprising that the CCP regards this foundation as an “enemy” or a “second CIA.”
What is really intriguing is why the CCP suddenly attacked this foundation at this point in time? And they still dispatched the diplomatic system to attack the foundation with great fanfare for “initiating a color revolution” and “building a pro-American regime”?
do you remember? As we said last week, the CCP has been softening on the United States recently, constantly releasing the message of “China-US friendship”, trying to repair Sino-US relations, and even Zhao Lijian has changed from a wolf to a little sheep.
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “The people of China and the United States have always had friendly feelings, and the friendship between the two peoples has always been the source of living water and an important foundation for the development of bilateral relations.”
However, this time, Zhao Mianyang turned back to Zhao Zhanlang in order to attack the Democracy Foundation. This drastic change and this time point are very strange and run counter to the CCP’s main theme of improving Sino-US relations. So why is that so? In my opinion, it is very likely that the Xi Jinping camp has discovered that there is a certain anti-Xi faction that is trying to bring in the power of the United States and have some contacts with this foundation, and wants to borrow the power and resources of the United States to challenge Xi Jinping and overthrow Xi. regime.
Therefore, the Xi camp attacked the foundation with great fanfare, but in fact it was “pointing at the Sang and scolding the Huai Huai”. On the surface, it was criticizing the US side, but it was actually beating and warning those anti-Xi factions who were trying to ask the US side for help.
Of course, at present we don’t know which anti-Xi faction is seeking help from the US, nor which US forces they are looking for. After all, in addition to the Jiang faction, there are other anti-Xi faction forces, and the United States also has several factional forces. However, what is certain is that Xi Jinping and the anti-Xi factions, as well as the international forces behind them, are launching the largest, most extensive, and most intense game of life and death. This game, as far as the current judgment is concerned, may have three possible outcomes:
The first possibility is that Xi Jinping wins and continues to lead the CCP to block and control China and expand the world, but this probability is very low, because Xi Jinping is facing too many difficulties now, and it is difficult to save himself.
The second possibility is that Xi Jinping is overthrown and replaced by a new party leader to lead the CCP, while restoring past exchanges and interests with the international community, and even establishing a so-called “new world order” with the international leftist group. However, the result is that “Xi is not the Communist Party.” The Chinese people still have to live under a totalitarian system, so it’s not good news.
The third possibility is that due to the fierce fighting between Xi Jinping and the anti-Xi faction, an open conflict broke out, leading to the disintegration of the party, the disintegration of the Communist Party, and the entry into a new era of post-Communist power competition. Of course, we still don’t know how this era of power competition will evolve and compete. But at least the disintegration of the Communist Party will bring new hope and change to China and the Chinese people.
Well, let’s say it again, Xi Jinping has indeed faced strong challenges and setbacks, but he should not have handed over power and is preparing to fight back. At present, he has made at least three counterattacks:
Counterattack 1: Party media’s high-profile publicity and public appearances to refute rumors
Counterattack 2: Cry again and insist on dynamic clearing to ensure the top 20 victories
Counterattack 3: Implying that someone has joined forces with the United States to reverse Xi Jinping
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