Ten years of Xi Jinping’s rule, Zhou Yongkang in his wake

Xi Jinping has been in power for almost a decade, but “the residual poison of Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai has not yet been purged”? The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced on February 8 that the Ministry of Public Security has the problem of “purging Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, Sun Lijun and other residual influences are not in place”, the Ministry of Public Security is the “knife handle” of the Chinese Communist Party to protect the mountain, but the shadow of the former political and legal czar who has long been in prison still remains?

Two days later, the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued another message on the 10th, Shanghai Vice Mayor and Public Security Director Gong Daoan was “double-opened”, his crime is, “serious violation of the Party’s political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline and Life discipline”. The most important thing is probably the violation of a line drawn by Xi Jinping, that is, if he continues to “violate discipline” or “do not submit” after taking power, he is considered “not to close his hand”. The “hands off” is a bit of a mob saying, Gong Daoan has committed serious job violations and suspected bribery crimes, “and not converge, not to close …… the nature of the bad”. So, Gong Daoan became the first “vice ministerial tiger” to fall in Shanghai since the 19th Congress.

But Hong Kong‘s ‘Ming Pao’ leaked the news that Gong Daoan was involved in a serious disciplinary offence committed during his tenure as director of the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. This 12th Bureau is the technological reconnaissance agency of the Communist Party’s public security system, specializing in listening, tracking and locating major cases.

This is in response to the earlier announcement by the Commission on Discipline Inspection that the Ministry of Public Security had “failed to purge the residual influence of Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, and Sun Lijun”. There is no way to confirm what Gong Daogan did when he was in charge of reconnaissance and wiretapping at the Ministry of Public Security, what “core secrets” he uncovered, and why his reconnaissance work eventually alerted the highest authorities.

Before Gong Daogan, Meng Hongwei and Sun Lijun, the vice ministers of the Ministry of Public Security, and Deng Zuling, the head of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, had fallen. Chongqing, the southern metropolis once ruled by Bo Xilai, who dared to step up to the challenge during Xi Jinping’s near ascendancy, has seen the fall of Wang Lijun, He Ting and Deng Zuolin since Bo was jailed. Bo’s successor, Sun Zhengcai, who was once seen as a future successor to the premier, was also purged a few months before the opening of the 19th National Congress.

In the past year or so, the Chinese authorities have arrested several public security chiefs and leaders of the Political and Legal Committee system, raising questions about how so many of the “bad guys” within the Communist Party came out of the deadly political and legal system. The company’s main business is to promote the development of the company’s products and services. Zhou Yongkang was publicly charged with corruption, as were all the tigers who were knocked to the ground and swept out of the country. At that Time, there were nine members of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo, and Zhou Yongkang, the king of politics and law who had the power of life and death, was quite a deterrent. After Xi Jinping came to power, the status of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs was greatly weakened as a precautionary measure. However, the shadow of Xi Jinping’s vigilance over the political and legal system is still there, which is why Xi is constantly trying to “catch the bad guys” in the political and legal system, in order to keep absolute control over the knives and remove any possible danger or threat.

As the 20th National Congress draws near, Xi Jinping will break the “party rule” of changing the CCP’s top leader once every 10 years, and will continue to hold the highest power at the 20th Congress and beyond. On the surface, Xi has all the power and continuing as general secretary at the 20th Congress is seen as a “natural continuation,” but when power reaches its peak, as isolated as The Emperor, Xi needs to constantly prevent the “black swans” and “gray rhinos” he highlighted two years ago. The emergence of the “gray rhinoceros”.

In a series of signs that Xi is not at peace, CCTV broadcast a rare overtime broadcast of Xi Jinping’s speech at the conclusion of the fifth plenary session of the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Jan. 27, in which Xi gave heavy words to the CCDI, stressing in particular that corruption in the political and legal systems should be punished severely. Some analysts believe that Xi Jinping is asking the CCDC, a contemporary brocade guard, to escort him to further cleanse the party of opposition forces and smooth the transition to the 20th National Congress.

In January, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) jointly issued a “Notice on Serious Discipline in the General Election and Strengthening the Supervision of the General Election”, which clearly put forward the “ten prohibitions”, and it is believed that Xi Jinping has already started the preparatory work for the 20th National Congress and started his subsequent power layout. The Chinese University of Hong Kong history professor Lin He Li told the Voice of America that the “ten forbidden” is related to Xi Jinping’s power layout for the 20th Congress next year, to help Xi “establish authority” and “eliminate murmurs “The “ten bans” are related to Xi Jinping’s power layout for the 20th National Congress next year.

This is Xi’s layout at the political level, the implementation of the specific implementation, or by the power of the political and legal system to complete the removal of obstacles to his plans of stumbling blocks, having a reliable “knife handle” is vital, but from Xi Jinping constantly in the political and legal system cleaning, Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai shadow does not disperse, Xi to this team of “knife handle The “knife” team always dare not take it lightly.