On May 1, the Communist Party of China (CPC) media “Seeking Truth” magazine published a signed article by Zhang Qingli, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group, titled “Maintaining Party Unity and Centralization is a Matter of the Party’s Rise and Fall – Experiences in Studying the History of the Chinese Communist Party”. The article quotes Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong several times, and at the same time, with a lot of ink, emphasizes the need to “resolutely safeguard the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping in the Party Central Committee and the core position of the Party as a whole, and resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee”, and cites Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming as negative examples, citing the military and political aspects of the CCP’s history The phenomenon of “blackmailing the Central Committee” and “putting the individual above the Central Committee”. He also said that he would resolutely fight against “all wrong ideas and behaviors that are detrimental to the unity and centralization of the Party” and that he would “dare to fight and be good at fighting. The article was highlighted in the Chinese Communist Party’s media “Seeking Truth” magazine. As the 20th Communist Party Congress is about to be held next year, this article is full of sanguine atmosphere, which makes the political arena of the Communist Party even more treacherous and crisis-ridden.
Is Someone at the Top of the Communist Party Splitting?
The article begins with a quote from Xi Jinping’s speech at the mobilization meeting for the study and education of the CCP’s history, “Speaking politics clearly and ensuring the unity and centralization of the Party is the life of the Party….”
The article then draws a parallel between Mao Zedong before the CCP seized power and Xi Jinping after he did so. It also said that the so-called “achievements” since the 18th CPC National Congress lie in the fact that “the entire Party is closely united around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, resolutely safeguarding the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping as the core of the Party Central Committee and the Party as a whole, and resolutely safeguarding the authority and centralized unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. “
In bold letters, “must theoretically understand the extreme importance of maintaining the unity and centralized unity of the Party.” The article not only re-emphasizes the need to “safeguard the Party’s unity and centralized unity,” but also uses words like “extreme importance.
While the article quotes Xi Jinping’s speech extensively, it also quotes Mao Zedong’s remarks on rare occasions, such as when the article quotes Mao Zedong as saying, “The entire Party comrades must unite around the Central Committee, and any act that undermines unity is a sin…”
And Mao’s statement that “… We have to look to the central benchmark and to the General Assembly benchmark. Alignment is the principle, deviation is the actual life, and when there is deviation, cry out for alignment.”
Who Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming are mapping
The article even seems to refer to Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming in the history of the CCP as examples.
The article cites the following example.
“In June 1935, after the rendezvous of the Red Front Army and the Fourth Front Army, Zhang Guotao disagreed with the Party Central Committee on the question of whether to go “north” or “south” and, confident of his military strength, threatened the Central Committee with this, openly He took the path of splitting the Party and the Red Army.
In November 1937, after Wang Ming returned from the Soviet Union, he claimed to be the “Minister of the Communist International” and placed himself above the Party Central Committee, disrespecting and disobeying the leadership of the Central Committee, seriously interfering with the implementation of the correct ideas of Comrade Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee, and causing great ideological confusion.”
Releasing a strong signal of struggle
Later, the article again emphasizes in bold letters “the need to create a good political ecology within the Party.” It calls for “a resolute struggle against all wrong ideas and behaviors that are detrimental to the unity and centralization of the Party.”
According to the article, “During the Long March, in response to Zhang Guotao’s serious mistake of splitting the Red Army and setting up another “Central Committee”, the Party Central Committee made a resolute struggle… During the Yan’an period, the Party carried out a rectification campaign, an important task of which was to oppose sectarianism in order to rectify the Party’s style, i.e., to oppose hilltopism, cliquism, disunity, etc., which removed obstacles to the unity and centralization of the Party as a whole.”
The article even uses Xi Jinping’s speech to emphasize the need to “promote the values of loyalty and honesty, fairness and integrity, truthfulness and honesty, resolutely prevent and oppose individualism, decentralism, liberalism, localism, and nice guyism, resolutely prevent and oppose sectarianism, circle culture, and dock culture, and resolutely oppose engaging in two-faced factions and being two-faced. “.
Then, in strong words, the article said, “We should deeply understand the importance of a good political ecology from a political height, dare to struggle, be good at struggling, resolutely oppose words and actions that undermine the unity and centralization of the Party, and resolutely oppose the vulgar and corrupt political culture…” .
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