Xi Jinping Sharpening Knives, Hu Chunhua Han Zheng May Step Down
The Communist Party of China (CPC) for the first Time amended the “Organic Law of the National People’s Congress (Draft Amendment)”, after the adoption of the appointment and removal of officials at the level of Vice Premier of the State Council, State Councilor and Vice Chairman of the Military Commission, can also be carried out between sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC).
Between sessions of the NPC, the NPC Standing Committee meets once every two months and can be added at any time if necessary, which allows more flexibility for Xi Jinping to make appointments and removals in the CCP.
The current affairs commentator Sampson told Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily in an analysis that the revision should be observed in conjunction with the general context of the 20th Communist Party meeting in 2022, and Xi Jinping’s desire to perpetuate his rule.
As for whether this represents an imminent change in the leadership, Samp believes it is quite possible, especially for Hu Chunhua, who is classified as a member of the “regiment faction” among the vice premiers of the State Council, and Han Zheng, who comes from the “Shanghai gang” and will probably be pulled out of office.
He stressed that Xi Jinping will certainly leave ample room for personnel purges: “This kind of sharpening of knives is in line with a series of combinations, such as the recent attempt by many Chinese children to learn how the Communist Party ‘fought the landlords and divided the land’, threatening to attack Taiwan within one to two years, and frantically stifling freedom and human rights in Hong Kong. Hong Kong freedom and human rights, reflecting Xi Jinping’s plans to further consolidate power and purge possible opposition.”
Xi Jinping speaks as NPC deputies busy taking notes, netizens: more like North Korea
NPC deputies busy taking notes as Xi Jinping speaks (Photo credit: video screenshot)
On March 5, Xi Jinping attended the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation and delivered a speech. When Xi Jinping was speaking, all the NPC deputies sitting on the stage were ambling on the table taking notes. Netizens said that it was too much like North Korea, and that it might be just like North Korea in the future.
The Chinese Communist Party reported that on March 5, Xi Jinping attended the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation at the fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress. Speaking about the “Report on the special rectification of irregularities and violations in the field of coal resources,” Xi said, “When a Communist Party official, when a public servant of the people, takes state resources to engage in bribery, to engage in power and money transactions, this account always has to be settled.”
The video posted by netizens shows that Xi Jinping was speaking when all the deputies sitting on the stage were lying on the table taking notes.
Some netizens said, “Why is there always a group of people around Kim Jong Un furiously taking notes?
According to John Everard, a former British ambassador to Pyongyang, it is a long-standing North Korean tradition for everyone to pretend to take careful notes of every word when the leader is present, even senior officials, Business Insider reported. It is not uncommon for North Korean officials to be severely punished at every turn for similar trivialities.
In response to Xi Jinping’s words about settling the total score, netizens’ comments.
“Pretty words are all for them to say and unethical things are all for them to do, without the system and the legal system, talking about anti-corruption is a joke.”
“Take the national resources around the world to spread the big money this account, I wonder how to calculate?”
Elementary school students rehearse “fight the landlord and divide the land” after Xi Jinping’s statement
It is suspected that elementary school students in one part of China are rehearsing “Fight the rich and divide the land.” (Video screenshot)
Xi Jinping recently affirmed “fight the rich and share the land” at a recognition ceremony for poverty eradication, which sparked public attention. A video shows that Chinese primary school students have started to rehearse the scene of “fight the rich and share the land”. Netizens analyzed that the Chinese Communist Party intends to use looting to cope with economic difficulties, but such propaganda may endanger the Communist Party’s state capitalism.
A tweet by Radio Free Asia said Xi Jinping publicly praised the CCP’s history of “beating up the landlords and sharing the land” at a “summing up and commendation conference on poverty eradication” late last month, after which “beating up the landlords and sharing the land The video of the tweet shows a video of the Chinese Communist Party’s history of “fighting the rich and sharing the land”.
The tweeted video shows what appears to be primary school students dressed in military uniforms rehearsing in one part of China, with two actors dressed as landlords being escorted to the front of the stage while the presenter announces that all debts are null and void and that the landlords’ land will be divided up so that “every poor Family will have a share of land. On the wall of the venue, the words “Fight the landlords and divide the land” were written in red pen.
Twitter users have left comments. Some thought the Communist Party intended to rob the rich on a large scale.
“Looks like the treasury is really running out of money.”
“The sense of banditry and robbery is deep-rooted and passed down from generation to generation.”
“With the reality of a large number of people returning to poverty, Xi Jinping will not forget his original intention and return to his old ways, following in the footsteps of the past, with another new era of fighting the landlords and dividing the land.”
The two sessions to maintain stability and strict work transport delivery riders 3.8 general strike aborted
Radio Free Asia reports that a plan by mainland delivery riders to launch a nationwide strike on March 8 to save Xiong Yan, the arrested head of the “Delivery Riders Union,” has been aborted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s stability crackdown and information blackout. However, the strike by delivery riders continues.
The news also shows that a large number of orders continue to be voided in Beijing and other places due to overtime because the riders are still slacking off in protest and no one is responding to the orders sent out by the delivery platforms, but the delivery platforms, including the party involved, “Hungry”, continue to remain silent.
The official government, in order to prevent riders from launching a national strike, permanently closed the public website “Working 51” run by left-wing labor activists on the 6th, after they had been under pressure to release news related to the rider strike through the platform.
According to Hong Tao, officials believe that the strike has involved foreign forces, so they have taken tougher measures to maintain stability, monitoring the WeChat and communication tools of all take-out group members, cutting off all messages, and pressuring take-out platforms to control the riders. This, coupled with the fact that it’s now the stabilization period of the two sessions, makes it even more difficult for the riders to stage protests.
On the 25th of last month, Xiong Yan, the organizer of a coalition of riders who formed more than a dozen WeChat circles, contacted nearly 10,000 delivery riders and tried to organize a group to defend their rights, was arrested by Beijing police, who also arrested a number of active riders. But so far, it is still not known how many riders were arrested this time.
China’s stock market shakes strongly, Beijing uses state funds to protect the market ineffectively
On March 9, the three major stock indices of the mainland stock market continued to fall, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the “national team” to enter the market to protect the market, although there was a V-shaped rebound in the stock market, but in the end it could not withstand the market blow, and finally closed down. So far, the mainland stock market has fallen for four consecutive trading days.
World Journal quoted Bloomberg news, a knowledgeable person said that Beijing authorities during the two sessions, the state fund to intervene in the stock market to protect the market to ensure market stability. Bloomberg said, but for now it seems that the Chinese stock market rout shows no sign of slowing down.
The CSI 300 index fell the deepest since July last year, losing its 100-day average on the 8th, and continued to shake lower in early trading on the 9th.
Offshore investors bought $383 million of Chinese stocks via Hong Kong at around 10:45 a.m. Hong Kong time on the 9th.
A Hong Kong trader told Bloomberg that clients associated with Chinese government funds were very aggressive in buying stocks through the Shanghai-Hong Kong/Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect on the 9th.
Forcing People to Spend More, China’s Two Sessions Set Consumption Growth Targets
The Communist Party’s “two sessions” have set a GDP growth target of more than 6% for 2021, which has been questioned by outsiders.
Taiwan’s Free Times reported on March 9 that the continuous impact of the Communist Party’s viral Epidemic has reduced the income of the Chinese people and significantly reduced their consumption power, with official Communist Party data showing a 3.9 percent year-on-year decline in total retail sales of consumer goods in 2020, the first decline since 1978.
However, the two sessions of the CCP, which are underway, have started to work on consumption, setting consumption growth targets for 2021 for several provinces. For example, Hainan up to 15%, Guangxi reached 12%, Shanxi, Yunnan, Sichuan are set to more than 10%, Henan, Anhui more than 9%, Ningxia 8%, Shaanxi 7.5%, Chongqing 7%, Gansu 7%, etc..
The CCP’s 14th Five-Year Plan and the draft outline of the 2035 Vision have both proposed domestic market requirements for consumption and investment, from online and offline to the establishment of various systems that require people to “spend money quickly”. But the problem is that the Chinese people have no money to spend as their incomes continue to decline.
According to a survey conducted by the Family Finance Survey Center of Southwest University of Finance and Economics in the first half of 2020, the overall income of residents in 2020 will increase by about 1.7 trillion yuan, and the expected consumption of low-income families in China with an annual income of less than 30,000 yuan and 30,000 to 50,000 yuan will decrease the most. Another statistic said that the growth rate of disposable income of mainland residents has been in a continuous decline for many years, and the weak annual consumption situation last year was in addition to the original trend of external shocks to accelerate the decline.
China’s Two Telecom Giants Merge to Dodge U.S. Sanctions
Before the two Communist Party meetings, China’s two largest telecom state-owned enterprises, China Telecom and China Putian, were rumored to be merging and reorganizing to become a so-called “communications supercarrier. U.S. experts believe that many of CEC’s subsidiaries have been sanctioned by Trump, and the so-called merger and reorganization is likely to be a diversion to avoid sanctions, which Washington should be wary of.
On March 8, Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China National People’s Congress, said that in the coming year, we should speed up legislation in foreign-related areas, and promote the formation of a systematic and complete system of foreign-related laws and regulations around anti-sanctions, anti-interference, and counteracting long-arm jurisdiction.
Earlier than Li’s announcement, on Feb. 24, China Putian (Potevio)’s subsidiary Dongfang Telecom Co., Ltd. issued an announcement that China Putian and China Electronics Technology Group Co. According to the Chinese Communist Party media, the two companies will become the so-called “super carrier”, the third largest company in China’s information technology industry after the reorganization.
In response, Zhang Jiadun, a conservative American columnist and author of “The U.S.-China Technology Wars,” said in an interview with the Voice of America that the restructuring is in line with the Chinese Communist Party’s usual practice of turning big companies into giant corporations. He said the restructuring could be a move to avoid U.S. sanctions; CEC could launch a shell game, changing the company’s name and transferring assets and operations to a company that is not sanctioned. Zhang Jiadun said that any action taken by Chinese Communist Party officials is not with good intentions, so the U.S. needs to pay close attention to what happens after this merger.
Worried about national security law Japan’s largest online brokerage firm Spectrum to pull out of Hong Kong
The picture shows an advertisement promoting the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law on the streets of Hong Kong.
The Financial Times reported on March 8 that Yoshitaka Kitao, chief executive of Japan’s largest online brokerage, has indicated plans to pull the company out of Hong Kong, involving about 100 people. Yoshitaka Kitao said, “Without freedom, there is no financial business.
The controversial National Security Law introduced in Hong Kong last year, under which 47 people have now been formally prosecuted by the Hong Kong police, has made the board increasingly fearful. Hong Kong is no longer a good base for financial institutions to operate from, and more and more Japanese companies are re-evaluating their operations in Hong Kong.
More than 40 people were hospitalized after receiving the vaccine, the Democratic Party urges to stop the elderly group.
The Democratic Party urges the Hong Kong government to stop vaccinating the elderly with the Chinese communist virus and to set up a “New Crown Vaccine Rights Hotline”.
Hong Kong has three cases of death within a week after receiving the vaccine, all of them are elderly people. The Hong Kong government also revealed on the 8th that it had received at least 45 serious cases of vaccination requiring hospitalization.
The Hong Kong Democratic Party held a press conference on Tuesday (9), demanding the authorities to stop allowing the elderly to receive vaccines without sufficient clinical data, and to set up a hotline to help people with problems.
The Democratic Party’s deputy spokesman for medical policy and Sham Shui Po District Councillor Yuen Hoi Man questioned why the government still pushed for vaccination for the over-60s group despite the fact that Kexing had pointed out that individual health conditions and risks should be taken into account when vaccinating people over 60 years old.
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