Next year, the Communist Party will hold its 20th National Congress. This meeting will determine the change of the top echelon of the CCP and the change of the National People’s Congress and the “one government and two chambers” (the State Council, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Procuratorate) the year after.
Will Xi Jinping be re-elected for a third term? Will Xi’s people dominate? This is Xi’s main concern at the moment. Can Xi be brought down? This is the main concern of the anti-Xi forces.
The final battle between Xi and the anti-Xi forces has already begun. Chinese e-commerce giant Jack Ma, who calls himself “Feng Qingyang,” originally wanted to be an outsider, but has unwittingly become involved in a duel between the top echelons of the Communist Party.
The Beginning of Open Anti-Xi
The Chinese Communist Party’s anti-Xi forces openly called Xi’s bluff from Xinjiang in northwest China on March 4, 2016, a critical moment in Xi’s anti-corruption fight against the tigers.
Late that night, the Xinjiang Boundless News website published an open letter written by a self-described “loyal Communist Party member” who said Xi “does not have the ability to lead the Party and the country into the future” and demanded that Xi “resign from all Party and state The letter threatened Xi’s family three times.
The letter threatened the lives of Xi’s family three times. The first paragraph of the letter says that an important reason for the resignation is “for your own safety and that of your family. After that, it talks about Xi’s anti-corruption efforts against the tigers, saying that if Xi continues to do so, “it may also pose hidden risks to you and your family’s personal safety. The last paragraph reiterated that Xi should resign “for the safety of you and your family”.
After Ma’s business grew bigger and bigger, he moved from the e-commerce industry to many other areas, one of which was investing in media. In Hong Kong, Ma bought the South China Morning Post, the most influential English-language newspaper in Hong Kong; on the mainland, Ma invested in Boundless News, among others.
When Xinjiang Boundless News published the above-mentioned open letter, people would naturally associate it with the investor Jack Ma. It may be that Jack Ma has nothing to do with this open letter, but still, it will cast a shadow on Ma’s future fate.
An important step against Xi
On Nov. 16, 2019, Xi, who has been overwhelmed by the U.S.-China trade war and Hong Kong’s anti-Send-China movement, received another heavy blow. On that day, the New York Times published a lengthy report titled “Leaked Documents Reveal How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims”.
According to the report: The New York Times obtained a 403-page internal Communist Party document. “They are the largest batch of government documents to leak from within China’s ruling Communist Party in decades, providing an unprecedented inside look at the (CCP’s) ongoing crackdown in Xinjiang.” “The documents include nearly 200 pages of internal speeches by Xi Jinping and other leaders, as well as more than 150 pages of instructions and reports controlling the Uighurs in Xinjiang. There are also references to the expansion of measures to restrict Islam to other parts of China.”
“The documents were leaked by a Chinese politician who requested anonymity and expressed hope that their disclosure would prevent Communist Party leaders, including Xi Jinping, from escaping the blame they deserve for the mass detentions.”
The author takes a stand against the CCP’s human rights persecution in Xinjiang. However, for this leak, the author believes that the motive may not be so innocent and may be a deliberate release of material by Xi’s political opponents to take the opportunity to oppose Xi.
A charge Xi cannot afford
The 19th Communist Party Congress in October 2017 was a turning point for Xi’s reputation to change dramatically from the highest to the lowest.
The key to this turnaround is that Xi reached a compromise with his biggest political enemies – Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. Beginning in January 2013, Xi launched an anti-corruption campaign against the tigers in order to seize power from former CCP dictator Jiang Zemin and former CCP Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice President Zeng Qinghong, the number two figure in the Jiang faction. In five years, Xi investigated and punished 400 senior officials at the deputy provincial (ministerial) level and above, most of whom were promoted and reappointed by Jiang and Zeng. At that time, if Xi took one more step forward, it would be to arrest Jiang and Zeng. However, at this juncture, Xi was confused by Jiang and Zeng’s “feigned admission” and no longer pursued Jiang and Zeng’s crimes.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are doing. They are people who dare to do anything that is unconscionable.
At the 19th Communist Party Congress, Wang Huning, the most important crony whom Jiang and Zeng had placed beside Xi, became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee in charge of the ideology of the Communist Party. After that, Wang kept pouring Marxism-Leninism into Xi’s head, making him dizzy.
In his first five years of fighting corruption, Xi heard, saw and was exposed to so much serious corruption at the highest levels of the Communist Party, government and military that he probably did not even remember that there was a book called the Communist Manifesto. But Wang Huning told Xi that he must study the Communist Manifesto.On April 23, 2018, the CCP’s Politburo studied the Communist Manifesto en masse.On May 4, 2018, the CCP held a high-profile conference to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx’s medieval birth. Xi delivered a lengthy speech, saying that the purpose of commemorating Marx is to “pay tribute to the greatest thinker in human history. The speech must have been written by Wang Huning’s organization.
After the 19th Communist Party Congress, Wang Huning used Marxism-Leninism to steer Xi to the left step by step, prompting him to forget his own words, such as “We have a thousand reasons to make Sino-US relations better, and no reason to make them worse. “.
On June 24 last year, U.S. National Security Adviser O’Brien said in a speech that the CPC is a Marxist-Leninist party and that “General Secretary Xi Jinping sees himself as the successor to Stalin.
On July 26, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo stated in a speech that “General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.”
On January 19, 2021, Secretary of State Pompeo said in a statement that the Chinese Communist Party had committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” against Xinjiang Uighurs and other minorities.
On the same day, Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, John Blinken, said in the Senate that he agreed with Pompeo’s statement.
On February 25, the Dutch Parliament passed a motion finding the Chinese Communist Party guilty of “genocide” in Xinjiang.
On April 22, the British House of Commons passed a motion finding the Chinese Communist Party guilty of “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang.
On March 8, the Institute for Innovative Strategies and Policies, a U.S. think tank, released an independent investigation report that compared evidence of the CCP’s persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang with the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity through more than 50 experts and scholars from around the world, and found the CCP guilty of “genocide” in Xinjiang. genocide” in Xinjiang.
If Xi is accused of committing “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang, it will not only involve the security of Xi’s power, but also the possibility of international legal prosecution.
Jack Ma’s Contrary Remarks to Xi on Financial Risks
In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party concealed the epidemic, among other things, which led to the spread of the Great Plague from Wuhan to all of China and the world, bringing an unprecedented catastrophe to all of humanity. Xi becomes the target of all.
In 2020, the number of Chinese who openly opposed Xi was the largest and most vocal since Xi came to power. For example, Cai Xia, a former professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, has repeatedly denounced Xi as a “gangster boss” and demanded that “Xi must step down. Ren Zhiqiang, a famous Chinese real estate developer, called Xi a “clown who insists on being an emperor even after stripping him naked. Xue Fumin, a law graduate from Peking University, issued an open letter calling for an immediate enlarged meeting of the Communist Party’s Politburo to discuss Xi’s stay or departure, saying that “the evaluation of Xi Jinping’s work since he came to power is no less important than overthrowing the Gang of Four”.
These anti-Xi remarks will undoubtedly have a big impact on Xi, but they are not enough to pose a threat to Xi. This is because some of them are overseas, such as Cai Xia in the United States, some are retired seniors, such as Ren Zhiqiang who has been retired for six years, and some are scholars, such as Xu Zhangrun, a professor at Tsinghua University.
Xi has been taking various measures to put out the fire of anti-Xi as a warning.
But these harsh approaches by Xi do not seem to have attracted enough attention from Ma. By October 24 of last year, in Shanghai, the largest municipality in the Communist Party of China, Ma once again spoke out against the Communist Party’s financial regulation.
On that day, Xi sent Vice President Wang Qishan to deliver a speech at the Shanghai Financial Summit, asking China to “guard the bottom line of no systemic (financial) risks. It was clearly stated that “China’s finance cannot take the crooked path of speculation and gambling, the divergent path of self-looping financial bubbles, or the evil path of Ponzi schemes.”
However, in his next speech, Jack Ma said that there is no “systemic financial risk” in China. There are many problems with financial regulation in China that affect innovation, such as the “pawnshop mentality”. Jack Ma said, “For the past 16 years, Ant Group has been focused on green, sustainable and inclusive development. If green, sustainable and inclusive finance is wrong, we will be wrong again and again, to the end.”
Whether Ma’s tit-for-tat with Wang Qishan was intended to be a public shouting match at Xi is probably unlikely, but Wang Qishan was speaking on behalf of Xi, and Ma was tantamount to singing counterpoint to Xi’s views on financial regulation.
Xi has repeatedly stressed: “financial security is the core of economic security”, “to prevent and resolve financial risks, especially to prevent the occurrence of systemic financial risks, is the fundamental task of financial work”. “Resolutely guard the bottom line of not occurring systemic and regional financial risks.”
In 2020, the public anti-Xi events one after another, Xi again and again after the strong press down, Ma Yun publicly made the above speech, no doubt let Xi very annoyed.
In particular, Ma is the largest e-commerce giant in China. Ant Group, which he controls, was scheduled to go public in both Shanghai and Hong Kong on Nov. 5 last year. Ant Group’s prospectus showed that by the end of June last year, Ant’s platform had facilitated credit loans amounting to 1.7 trillion yuan and 400 billion yuan for consumers and micro and small e-merchants, respectively, and that Ant’s Alipay served more than 80 million micro and small e-merchants, handling a total of more than 118 trillion yuan in payment transactions in China over the past year.
In June 2015, China had a major stock market crash in which A-shares plunged. The crash was seen as a “financial coup” against Xi by Jiang Zemin’s faction.
The Wall Street Journal investigated the shareholding structure of Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group and Ant Group and found that they included Jiang Zhicheng, grandson of Jiang Zemin; Li Botan, son-in-law of former CCP Politburo Standing Committee member and CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin, a close associate of Jiang Zemin; He Jinlei, son of former CCP Politburo Standing Committee member and CCDI Secretary He Guoqiang; and Liu Jinlei, a former CCP Politburo Standing Committee member. He Jinlei, the son of former CPC Politburo Standing Committee member Liu Yunshan, Liu Lefei, and Chen Yuan, the son of former CPC patriarch Chen Yun, who promoted and reappointed Jiang Zemin.
These circumstances make Xi even more worried: Will Ma become another “financial giant” who will turn the financial market upside down? Is Ma backed by anti-Xi forces?
Ma and Xi’s life and death struggle
On December 24 last year, Jack Ma said in his speech: “Although the world leaves us with many opportunities for development, there are only one or two critical opportunities, and now is the most critical moment. So, I think I still want to talk about some of my own ideas”.
But “the most critical moment” for Xi may be a completely different taste.
In fact, this is the most unlucky moment since Xi came to power: under the manipulation of Marxist-Leninist ideology, Xi has screwed up Sino-US relations, screwed up the Hong Kong issue, screwed up the Taiwan issue, screwed up the Xinjiang issue, screwed up Sino-British, Sino-Canadian, Sino-Australian, Sino-Japanese relations, etc. The United States is working together internationally to encircle the Chinese Communist Party, and there are calls for Xi to be scolded, anti-Xi, anti-Xi, Xi’s removal, coup d’etat, and mutiny at home and abroad. The calls for Xi’s dismissal, coup d’état and mutiny were higher than one wave.
It is at this time that Jack Ma has openly contradicted Xi on the issue of financial risks. This is something Xi will not tolerate.
After the Shanghai Financial Summit, Xi took a series of purge measures against Jack Ma, including urgently halting the listing of Ant Group, imposing a heavy fine of 12.8 billion yuan on Alibaba Group, requiring Ant Group to hand over its self-developed distributed database OceanBase and mobile development platform mPaaS, and ordering Lakeside University, which Jack Ma founded, to stop enrolling students. Jack Ma’s troubles are not over yet.
On April 27, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese regulators are investigating “who gave quick approval for Ant’s IPO,” including the regulator who approved Ant’s IPO (initial public offering), local officials who escorted Ant’s IPO, and large state-owned companies that benefited from it.
If Xi goes deeper, someone is sure to face liquidation, and the two sides will have a vicious fight.
A different kind of “bloodbath” has been fought
On April 25, when Xi visited the Xiangjiang River Battle Memorial Park in Guilin, he made special mention of the “bloody battle of Xiangjiang River”, claiming that “if we persevere in the most difficult times”, we will definitely be able to do so.
The bloody battle of Xiangjiang River in November 1934 was one of the biggest defeats of the Red Army after the retreat from Ruijin, Jiangxi, and the number of Red Army troops was sharply reduced from more than 86,000 to more than 30,000. After the battle, the surface of the Xiangjiang River, densely floating, are the corpses of the Red Army, so much so that a local saying circulated: “Three years do not drink Xiangjiang water, ten years do not eat Xiangjiang fish.”
Xi’s remarks inadvertently reveal the real plight of Xi at present. If Xi does not defeat his opponents before the 20th CPC National Congress, his opponents will definitely put Xi to death.
The bloody battle of Xiangjiang River was a product of the extreme leftist line pursued by the CCP leader, Bo Gu. Less than two months later, Bo Gu was ousted from power at the Zunyi Conference, and now, 87 years later, I wonder what Xi can learn from the bloody battle of Xiangjiang River.
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