Chen Guanguo, a member of the Communist Party’s Politburo and secretary of the Xinjiang regional party committee who has rarely appeared in public, spoke out through official media on April 2 about the human rights issues arising from the cotton storm in Xinjiang, following the old Communist Party formula of blaming Western forces. Chen’s role is of great concern at this sensitive moment on the eve of the 20th Communist Party Congress, when persecution in Xinjiang has become one of the key issues in the battle between Western society and the Chinese Communist Party.
According to the Xinjiang Daily, which is directly affiliated with the Xinjiang Party Committee, Chen Guanguo met with visiting Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretary General Vladimir Norov and envoys and diplomats from relevant countries in Urumqi on Feb. 2, and said that “some forces” in the international arena are smearing Xinjiang’s image and trying to In response to concerns from Europe and the United States about human rights in Xinjiang, Vladimir Norov said that “some forces” in the international arena are smearing Xinjiang’s image and trying to “undermine its security, stability and prosperity,” but today “all ethnic groups are equal and enjoy stability, security, development and progress.
Last month, the Chinese Communist Party used the H&M boycott of Xinjiang cotton to manipulate public opinion and stir up national sentiment as a way to ward off international criticism and concern about human rights in Xinjiang, but instead sparked a debate about the role of Xi Jinping and Chen Quanguo in the persecution.
In an April 4 article in the South China Morning Post, Zhang Chunxian, who became secretary of the Communist Party’s Xinjiang regional committee after the July 5 incident in 2009, changed his predecessor’s iron-fisted approach to Xinjiang and began to focus on appeasement; however, Xi Jinping was frightened by the 2013 Tiananmen Jinshui Bridge attack, and in 2014, on his last day visiting Xinjiang, an explosion occurred at the Urumqi train station. Xi Jinping’s speech called for “not a moment of relaxation and decisive measures must be taken” against violent terrorists, and proposed “mass defense and crowd control, building a brick wall and forming a net” and fighting a so-called people’s war, etc., which is considered to be the central government’s new policy for Xinjiang. This is considered to be the central government’s new policy for Xinjiang.
In the early years, there were reports that the 2013 Jinshuiqiao and 2014 Urumqi train station incidents both involved internal strife in the CCP, with Xi’s political opponents launching intimidation attacks against him. While it is natural for Xi to be frightened, the official targeting of Uyghur separatist forces, just as Chen Guoduo now accuses Western forces, is designed to confuse the people and shift the conflict.
In line with Xi Jinping’s iron-fisted line, by August 2016, Zhang Chunxian was kicked out of office, and Chen Guanguo, who had been cracking down on Tibetans in Tibet, entered Xinjiang and soon began building re-education camps and conducting mass surveillance until the CCP was accused of genocide by several countries as a result of the international attention the persecution in Xinjiang has attracted.
In an April 5 article published by Radio Free Asia’s “Night Talk Zhongnanhai” column, it was also pointed out that Chen Guanguo was ruling Xinjiang with an iron fist on behalf of Xi Jinping, and in order to maintain Xi Jinping’s power, he created an extremely tight surveillance system in Xinjiang, setting the tone for the CCP’s shift to harsh authoritarian rule. Therefore, although Chen has become a “street rat” in the international community, he has won the approval of Beijing’s top brass, and Xi Jinping may promote him to the Politburo Standing Committee at the 20th Communist Party Congress.
According to the article, Xi Jinping, in his 2013 “August 19 speech,” asked his men at all levels to be bold enough to stand up to the storm and fight. Xi said that as a CCP official, “don’t think about winning the applause of various people in society or the praise of various public opinions overseas… Our Party will not evaluate cadres by such false names… In the political struggle that concerns the fate of the Party and the country, all leading cadres cannot be bystanders. Since then, whether they are questioned by outside public opinion and whether they are attacked by “Western anti-communist and anti-China forces” has become an important reference indicator in the Xi Jinping regime’s “political assessment” of officials at all levels, and Chen has been regarded by the West as a “genocide”. Chen’s bad behavior, which is considered “genocide” by the Western world, is precisely “courageous” in Xi’s eyes.
Therefore, this article argues that Xi Jinping is likely to give a reward at the 20th CPC National Congress, “The future 20th Congress does not rule out the possibility that, under the premise of expanding the Standing Committee of the Politburo, whether it is eight or nine members, a member of the Standing Committee will be appointed as the full-time vice chairman of the State Security Committee and the head of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs at the same time. The possibility that Xi Jinping will give this position to Chen Guoduo is very high.
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