Recently, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a plenary session, Xi Jinping and other seven Standing Committee members attended, while Wang Qishan, a former secretary of the Commission, was absent, sparking speculation. Xi’s speech released a signal of power struggle, which was considered “murderous” and unusual by the outside world.
The fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held from 22 to 24. Xi Jinping and seven other members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau attended the meeting. Wang Qishan, who is the former secretary of the CCDI, did not attend the meeting. Wang Qishan was earlier accused of deteriorating relations with Xi, his friends and old ministers have been in trouble.
In his speech, Xi warned that the fight against corruption should “focus on corruption cases where political and economic issues are intertwined” and “seriously investigate and deal with two-faced people who are disloyal to the Party and who are subversive,” clearly acknowledging that the fight against corruption has been a means to maintain the rule of the Chinese Communist Party and intensify infighting.
Xi also said: political and economic problems are intertwined, threatening the political security of the Party and the country …… corrosion and anti-corruption struggle is a long-standing, a little slack may be abandoned before, we must know the difficulties and advance.
Time commentator Zhou Xiaohui analysis, compared to the fourth plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in early 2020, Xi Jinping’s speech, there is absolutely no such killing, rather worried statements, and from the past year of fallen senior officials to see, Xi at this time issued such a harsh voice is the reason behind.
Since 2020, senior officials such as Sun Lijun, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, Deng Cullin, vice mayor of Chongqing and director of the Public Security Bureau, Dong Hong, inspector of the Central Inspection Group, Liu Baohua, vice director of the National Energy Administration, and Gong Daogan, vice mayor of Shanghai and director of the city’s Public Security Bureau, have fallen from grace.
Among them, Sun Lijun, Deng Cullin and Gong Daogan all have Jiang faction background, and Dong Hong is Wang Qishan’s big butler. He was also the secretary of Bo Yibo, a former Communist Party patriarch.
And Ren Zhiqiang, the real estate tycoon who was heavily sentenced to 18 years for calling Xi a clown, is also a close friend of Wang Qishan.
Before this plenary session of the CCDI, Beijing authorities have dealt with a number of top CCP officials in succession, even going on a killing spree.
Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management, who was sentenced to death in the New Year of 2021, was alleged to be a member of Zeng Qinghong’s “Jiangxi gang”. Lai Xiaomin was sentenced to death before the meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), and is believed to have been used by Beijing as an example to the monkeys before the CCDI plenary session.
In the first 11 days of 2021, the CCDI also issued disciplinary notices for seven cadres, six of whom were cited for violating political discipline.
Zhou said that while weakening Jiang’s power, Xi also took down Wang Qishan’s inner circle, which, along with Wang’s low profile in the past two years, confirms that there is indeed a rift in their relationship, and that Xi has guarded against Wang. In Xi’s view, there are dark currents within the Communist Party, and all factions are threatening his own security.
But the article also questions whether the “anti-Xi” forces within the CCP will sit back and wait for a coup attempt in 2020 to happen again in 2021. The political circle in Beijing is about to be rained out.
The article questions whether the “anti-Xi” forces within the Communist Party will sit still and wait to die. The diagram
On the evening of the 22nd, the Communist Party’s Central Television (CCTV) broadcasted a rare speech by Xi Jinping at the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in an extra-long space on its news bulletin.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Xinhua News Agency also published a top article on the 23rd, paraphrasing Xi’s speech, saying: “Political corruption is the biggest corruption. Some corrupt elements have formed interest groups in a vain attempt to steal power from the Party and the state and engage in unorganized activities.”
Commentator Yang Wei said in an article in the Epoch Times that this released a strong signal of internal strife in the CCP. The party media report begins with the phrase “a struggle that cannot afford to lose and must not be lost,” which is clearly an internal struggle, not an external one.
The Xinhua report also portrayed that “some corrupt elements are very deep in hiding and very good at disguising …… their submissiveness.” In this regard, Yang Wei said, Xi authorized the party media to openly poke holes in the reality of internal struggles, which is quite rare. In the end, there are many people in the CCP who are subversive and should not be individuals, otherwise the party media would not be so aggressive.
Since 2020, Zhongnanhai has fallen into an even more serious crisis, with epidemics raging, the economy falling, diplomacy failing miserably, and the international community besieging it. With internal and external difficulties, the CCP’s internal strife has become more intense, and Xi Jinping’s position as the “core” is in jeopardy.
Veteran media personality and current affairs commentator Li Linyi analyzed that Xi Jinping feels a crisis of power, and over the past year, the Communist Party’s cover-up of the Epidemic has led to the spread of the epidemic around the world, coupled with the Communist Party’s “War Wolf diplomacy”, which has led to enemies on all sides.
At the democratic Life meeting of the CCP’s Politburo at the end of 2020, Xi also admitted that 2020 is an “extremely unusual year” in the history of the CCP, and cited the crises facing the CCP, saying that the external environment is stormy and challenges are coming, while describing the challenges facing the CCP as a mountain crushing the top of the mountain.
Analysis suggests that Xi Jinping is aware of the unprecedented crisis facing the CPC and is trying to elevate the dilemma to show his leadership, but this also indicates that Xi’s authority is being shaken, and that the critical situation that Xi calls “a mountain crushing the top of the mountain” is difficult to extricate.
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