In an unannounced visit to a Red Army memorial park in Guilin, Guangxi, on April 25, Xi revealed his determination to “fight a bloody battle” to get out of a difficult situation and his vision of a “miraculous victory” by remembering the past. Outsiders are curious: to whom is he releasing this message? Who is he going to fight with?
In an April 26 posting on the microblogging site of Chinese official media Xinhua, Xi Jinping said during a visit to the Red Army Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park in Caiwan Town, Quanzhou County, Guilin, Guangxi, that when difficulties are great, “think of the Red Army’s Long March and the bloody battle of Xiangjiang.
He believes that the secret of the success of the revolution is to “persevere in the most difficult times”, so as to continue to achieve “miraculous victories”.
Xi stressed that “the Red Army soldiers are like returning from death, live to die and go forward, relying on ideals and beliefs”.
This statement is thought to reveal Xi’s current mood of hardship, as the Chinese folk saying goes: “If you are suffering, think of the 25,000 Red Army soldiers”.
As the outside world observes Xi’s difficulties, apart from U.S. pressure, the biggest challenge to him in the near future would be the possible 7th Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee to be held this fall. If this meeting can be held, it should be the time to finalize the leadership of the 20th CPC National Congress, in accordance with the CCP’s usual practice.
Deng Xiaoping, the oldest member of the CCP, and his peers once set a “party rule” that the top leadership of the CCP should be changed once every 10 years after them to prevent a repeat of Mao’s lifelong dictatorship that brought the party/state to the brink of collapse. Xi Jinping, who is in control of the military, has paved the way by “fighting corruption” and “amending the constitution” in recent years, but he cannot rule out that there are still changes ahead.
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