On December 7, the U.S. announced sanctions against 14 Chinese vice presidential leaders, who face financial sanctions, asset freezes, and future bans on entry into the U.S. for them and their immediate family members. This sanction has been widely discussed, as CCP officials love to send their families to the United States. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s official media Global Times, commonly known as the “gripper,” then took to Twitter to defend the officials, saying that the U.S. sanctions had no impact on the 14 people in question, but many netizens left comments expressing disbelief. Among the sanctioned officials, Zhang Chunxian, former secretary of Xinjiang and Cao Jianming, former chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, have been highly publicized for their involvement in human rights abuses and false accusations before they were sanctioned. The two were sanctioned, respectively from the Zhongnanhai harem CCTV married back to the “young wife” will also be affected, can not travel to the United States.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 14 vice-chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on July 7. 14 of them are: Cai Dafeng, Cao Jianming, Chen Zhu, Baima Chilin, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Aleksei Yiminbahai, Ji Binghuan, Shen Yueyue, Wan E Xiang, Wang Chen, Wang Dongming, Wu Weihua, Zhang Chunxian. 14 of them are all members of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
These 14 individuals are all vice-state officials of the Chinese Communist Party. Under the U.S. sanctions, the properties and interests in the U.S. held directly or indirectly by these 14 senior CCP officials are frozen and must be reported to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They and their immediate family members will also be barred from entering the United States in the future. They will not be able to use credit cards, will have limited financial mobility, and will lose the ability to transact in U.S. dollars around the world. Any financial institution or bank that deals with these sanctioned individuals will also face U.S. sanctions.
The news was met with a public outcry, and even with China’s severe Internet blockade, there were many cries of support on Weibo. “It’s over, the families in the U.S. are in collective panic”, “The fight against corruption really can’t rely on ourselves, we have to rely on Chuan Jianguo”, “I’m waiting to see the sanctions on the Politburo Standing Committee”, “I’m waiting to see the sanctions”. “Anti-Americanism is a job, coming to the U.S. is a way of life, take a break, Americans are tired of watching you act”, “These people’s money will not be kept in China or at home, where do you think?
Hu Xijin of the Global Times, the official media of the Communist Party of China (CPC), hastily “led the way” in response to the situation. In a long microblog post on December 8, he tried to downplay the impact of the sanctions. Hu wrote: “Objectively speaking, these sanctions will have little practical impact on the Vice Chairmen’s positions and personal lives, as they are unlikely to have the kind of ties to the United States that the sanctions are aimed at. Today, Chinese politicians are highly wary of any contact with the U.S. outside of their official duties,” and threatened that “China will certainly reciprocate the U.S.’s outrageous sanctions against China’s 14 vice chairmen.
Many netizens below Hu’s microblog expressed their disagreement: “I don’t believe these people don’t have family in the U.S.” and “Think about how to make good relations, what is there to counteract the countermeasures every day?” It’s not like you can win a war of words, but people don’t care about you”, “Look at Carrie Lam, do you think it has any influence? No bank in China just opened an account for her, do you think it has any effect? At least you’re an editor-in-chief, why don’t you have a word of truth?” The “reciprocal countermeasures? Sanctions on Pompeo plus 13 vice presidents? Sorry, others in the U.S. don’t have so many broken officials” …….
The aforementioned netizen is Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, one of 11 officials sanctioned by the U.S. earlier this year for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. Recently, a number of Hong Kong media reported that Mrs. Lam complained that due to the U.S. sanctions, no bank account, the government can only pay her salary in cash, home full of cash, and can only spend cash daily.
At the time, there were many questions about why she could only spend cash if she could open an account directly with a Chinese bank under sanctions. The reason is that Chinese banks are worried that they risk being kicked out of SWIFT, the global inter-institutional financial messaging system for financial institutions, if they do business with Mrs. Lam.
SWIFT is a U.S. dollar-controlled cross-border financial system that controls more than 80% of the world’s financial information transfer system between financial institutions that make cross-border payments, and is a powerful tool for the U.S. to impose financial sanctions around the world. Whenever the U.S. is determined to sanction a country or institution, it can directly disconnect that financial institution (or its corresponding U.S. dollar correspondent) from the U.S. dollar cross-border settlement system (CHIPS), making it unable to conduct any dollar-related transactions.
Therefore, all Chinese banks, large and small, need to prevent doing business with sanctioned individuals, companies, or institutions in order to avoid having their international financial operations affected. All 14 of the above-mentioned senior CCP officials are likely to face the same outcome, not “no impact” as Hu Xi Jin said.
Former CCTV anchorwoman Li Xiuping and Wang Xiaoya can’t even go to the U.S.?
Two of the most high-profile individuals on the sanctions list are Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming.
Zhang Chunxian is a key member of the Jiang faction with close ties to former Communist Party Secretary Zhou Yongkang. Hong Kong 01 reports that during Zhou Yongkang’s control of the Communist Party’s legal and political system, the July 5 violence in Urumqi, Xinjiang, resulted in 197 deaths, and that Zhou then “recommended” Zhang Chunxian, then Hunan’s secretary, to take over Xinjiang.
It is worth noting that in 2012, former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun fled the U.S. Consulate and leaked a large amount of information to the U.S., including Zhou Yongkang’s Bo Xilai. This included information that Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai were plotting a coup to bring down Xi Jinping and that they were harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners alive. At the time, Zhou and Bo left themselves three options in case the coup failed: Yunnan, Xinjiang, and North Korea. This shows the importance of Zhang Chunxian in Zhou Yongkang’s mind.
In 2016, an open letter calling for Xi Jinping’s resignation brought public opinion to a climax. The letter was sent by Borderless News, a Xinjiang newspaper under Zhang Chunxian’s jurisdiction, and Zhang himself answered “we’ll see” to a reporter’s question at the 2016 Communist Party’s “Two Sessions” about whether he supported Xi’s leadership. He was seen as publicly contradicting Xi.
Since taking charge of Xinjiang, Zhang Chunxian has played up the Communist Party’s far-left ideology, persecuting Uyghurs and dissidents. In large cities such as Urumqi, Uyghurs are second-class citizens. Uyghurs are not allowed to participate in Uyghur celebrations, men are not allowed to wear beards, women are not allowed to wear veils, and Uyghur weddings are not allowed to have “nenka” Uyghur weddings or face severe penalties. Zhang Chunxian has also been criticized by various overseas human rights groups for his actions. In addition, Zhang Chunxian has been targeted by Tracing International for his active implementation of Jiang Zemin and Zhou Yongkang’s policy of persecuting Falun Gong. He is also one of those directly responsible for the persecution of prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
In 2005, Zhang Chunxian, then Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, married CCTV anchor Li Xiuping; they both remarried. Li Xiuping was 10 years younger than Zhang, but Li did not retire due to her husband’s promotion, and was later hired as an adjunct professor at Northwest Normal University.
It is worth noting that Li Xiuping is a former anchor for CCTV News and a colleague of Zhou Yongkang’s second wife, Jia Xiaoye. Cao Jianming’s third wife, Wang Xiaoya, is also from CCTV.
Rumor has it that Jia Xiaoye was married to Zhou Yongkang before introducing her colleagues Li Xiuping and Wang Xiaoya to Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming, and that Zhou “slept with them before introducing them.
Wang Xiaoyia and Cao Jianming were married in 2009. Cao is 13 years older than Wang. According to Reuters, which cited officials in Beijing’s political, legal and propaganda systems, Cao married Wang Xiaoyia, one of CCTV’s most popular anchors, as a result of “sexual bribery” by Li Dongsheng, then Vice Minister of Public Security and director of the “610” office, who was also a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, to the leadership of the Communist Party. The “part of.
The “safe landing” of Jiang Zemin’s thigh all the way to the top for reporting Zhou Yongkang.
Cao Jianming, 68, is a native of Jiangsu province, and was director of the Supreme Procuratorate before his transfer to the National People’s Congress. In 1999, after Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong, Cao Jianming returned to China to make political capital and rise to the top. In 2002, Cao was again promoted to executive vice president of the Supreme Court for his active cooperation with Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Falun Gong. Cao Jianming was also targeted by the International Organization to Track Down Falun Gong Persecution overseas for his persecution of Falun Gong.
Cao Jianming was one of Zhou Yongkang’s most important henchmen in the political and legal system. When Zhou Yongkang was investigated by the authorities, it was rumored that Cao Jianming was like a “bird on a string. According to an article in the 48th issue of the overseas magazine Foreign Affairs, Cao began to “lapse into a trance” after being interviewed several times by the CCDI, and fell into a state of malaise. The source even used the phrase “terrified” to describe Cao’s state.
As to why Cao Jianming has now “landed safely”, the source even used the term “terrified” to describe him. According to Hong Kong media sources, Cao Jianming voluntarily explained his problems, mistakes, and serious dereliction of duty during the review period, and reported Zhou Yongkang’s “serious violations of discipline and law” and criminal schemes that were not yet known to Zhongnanhai, and was eventually treated lightly by the Beijing authorities.
The report reveals that Zhou Yongkang told Cao in late October 2012 that “Xi has the backing of the military and the second generation of the Red Army, so (we) need to be prepared for two things,” as part of Cao’s exposé. One of the preparations Zhou Yongkang made was to flee to northern Europe with his family when the situation was bad.
When Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming wielded enormous power to persecute human rights in China, they had the protection of the Chinese Communist Party system to do their dirty work. Now it is the U.S. that is helping the Chinese, who have nowhere else to turn, to punish these human rights thugs. One netizen tweeted that the incident was “quite ironic.
Another user jokingly said, “It’s not impossible for Wang Xiaoya to go to the United States after Li Xiuping, just get a divorce. But you have to hold on to the remaining 20 days or you won’t be able to get a divorce next year when the cooling-off period comes.
On December 7, the U.S. announced sanctions against 14 Chinese vice presidential leaders, who face financial sanctions, asset freezes, and future bans on entry into the U.S. for them and their immediate family members. This sanction has been widely discussed, as CCP officials love to send their families to the United States. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s official media Global Times, commonly known as the “gripper,” then took to Twitter to defend the officials, saying that the U.S. sanctions had no impact on the 14 people in question, but many netizens left comments expressing disbelief. Among the sanctioned officials, Zhang Chunxian, former secretary of Xinjiang and Cao Jianming, former chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, have been highly publicized for their involvement in human rights abuses and false accusations before they were sanctioned. The two were sanctioned, respectively from the Zhongnanhai harem CCTV married back to the “young wife” will also be affected, can not travel to the United States.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 14 vice-chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on July 7. 14 of them are: Cai Dafeng, Cao Jianming, Chen Zhu, Baima Chilin, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Aleksei Yiminbahai, Ji Binghuan, Shen Yueyue, Wan E Xiang, Wang Chen, Wang Dongming, Wu Weihua, Zhang Chunxian. 14 of them are all members of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
These 14 individuals are all vice-state officials of the Chinese Communist Party. Under the U.S. sanctions, the properties and interests in the U.S. held directly or indirectly by these 14 senior CCP officials are frozen and must be reported to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They and their immediate family members will also be barred from entering the United States in the future. They will not be able to use credit cards, will have limited financial mobility, and will lose the ability to transact in U.S. dollars around the world. Any financial institution or bank that deals with these sanctioned individuals will also face U.S. sanctions.
The news was met with a public outcry, and even with China’s severe Internet blockade, there were many cries of support on Weibo. “It’s over, the families in the U.S. are in collective panic”, “The fight against corruption really can’t rely on ourselves, we have to rely on Chuan Jianguo”, “I’m waiting to see the sanctions on the Politburo Standing Committee”, “I’m waiting to see the sanctions”. “Anti-Americanism is a job, coming to the U.S. is a way of life, take a break, Americans are tired of watching you act”, “These people’s money will not be kept in China or at home, where do you think?
Hu Xijin of the Global Times, the official media of the Communist Party of China (CPC), hastily “led the way” in response to the situation. In a long microblog post on December 8, he tried to downplay the impact of the sanctions. Hu wrote: “Objectively speaking, these sanctions will have little practical impact on the Vice Chairmen’s positions and personal lives, as they are unlikely to have the kind of ties to the United States that the sanctions are aimed at. Today, Chinese politicians are highly wary of any contact with the U.S. outside of their official duties,” and threatened that “China will certainly reciprocate the U.S.’s outrageous sanctions against China’s 14 vice chairmen.
Many netizens below Hu’s microblog expressed their disagreement: “I don’t believe these people don’t have family in the U.S.” and “Think about how to make good relations, what is there to counteract the countermeasures every day?” It’s not like you can win a war of words, but people don’t care about you”, “Look at Carrie Lam, do you think it has any influence? No bank in China just opened an account for her, do you think it has any effect? At least you’re an editor-in-chief, why don’t you have a word of truth?” The “reciprocal countermeasures? Sanctions on Pompeo plus 13 vice presidents? Sorry, others in the U.S. don’t have so many broken officials” …….
The aforementioned netizen is Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, one of 11 officials sanctioned by the U.S. earlier this year for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. Recently, a number of Hong Kong media reported that Mrs. Lam complained that due to the U.S. sanctions, no bank account, the government can only pay her salary in cash, home full of cash, and can only spend cash daily.
At the time, there were many questions about why she could only spend cash if she could open an account directly with a Chinese bank under sanctions. The reason is that Chinese banks are worried that they risk being kicked out of SWIFT, the global inter-institutional financial messaging system for financial institutions, if they do business with Mrs. Lam.
SWIFT is a U.S. dollar-controlled cross-border financial system that controls more than 80% of the world’s financial information transfer system between financial institutions that make cross-border payments, and is a powerful tool for the U.S. to impose financial sanctions around the world. Whenever the U.S. is determined to sanction a country or institution, it can directly disconnect that financial institution (or its corresponding U.S. dollar correspondent) from the U.S. dollar cross-border settlement system (CHIPS), making it unable to conduct any dollar-related transactions.
Therefore, all Chinese banks, large and small, need to prevent doing business with sanctioned individuals, companies, or institutions in order to avoid having their international financial operations affected. All 14 of the above-mentioned senior CCP officials are likely to face the same outcome, not “no impact” as Hu Xi Jin said.
Former CCTV anchorwoman Li Xiuping and Wang Xiaoya can’t even go to the U.S.?
Two of the most high-profile individuals on the sanctions list are Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming.
Zhang Chunxian is a key member of the Jiang faction with close ties to former Communist Party Secretary Zhou Yongkang. Hong Kong 01 reports that during Zhou Yongkang’s control of the Communist Party’s legal and political system, the July 5 violence in Urumqi, Xinjiang, resulted in 197 deaths, and that Zhou then “recommended” Zhang Chunxian, then Hunan’s secretary, to take over Xinjiang.
It is worth noting that in 2012, former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun fled the U.S. Consulate and leaked a large amount of information to the U.S., including Zhou Yongkang’s Bo Xilai. This included information that Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai were plotting a coup to bring down Xi Jinping and that they were harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners alive. At the time, Zhou and Bo left themselves three options in case the coup failed: Yunnan, Xinjiang, and North Korea. This shows the importance of Zhang Chunxian in Zhou Yongkang’s mind.
In 2016, an open letter calling for Xi Jinping’s resignation brought public opinion to a climax. The letter was sent by Borderless News, a Xinjiang newspaper under Zhang Chunxian’s jurisdiction, and Zhang himself answered “we’ll see” to a reporter’s question at the 2016 Communist Party’s “Two Sessions” about whether he supported Xi’s leadership. He was seen as publicly contradicting Xi.
Since taking charge of Xinjiang, Zhang Chunxian has played up the Communist Party’s far-left ideology, persecuting Uyghurs and dissidents. In large cities such as Urumqi, Uyghurs are second-class citizens. Uyghurs are not allowed to participate in Uyghur celebrations, men are not allowed to wear beards, women are not allowed to wear veils, and Uyghur weddings are not allowed to have “nenka” Uyghur weddings or face severe penalties. Zhang Chunxian has also been criticized by various overseas human rights groups for his actions. In addition, Zhang Chunxian has been targeted by Tracing International for his active implementation of Jiang Zemin and Zhou Yongkang’s policy of persecuting Falun Gong. He is also one of those directly responsible for the persecution of prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
In 2005, Zhang Chunxian, then Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, married CCTV anchor Li Xiuping; they both remarried. Li Xiuping was 10 years younger than Zhang, but Li did not retire due to her husband’s promotion, and was later hired as an adjunct professor at Northwest Normal University.
It is worth noting that Li Xiuping is a former anchor for CCTV News and a colleague of Zhou Yongkang’s second wife, Jia Xiaoye. Cao Jianming’s third wife, Wang Xiaoya, is also from CCTV.
Rumor has it that Jia Xiaoye was married to Zhou Yongkang before introducing her colleagues Li Xiuping and Wang Xiaoya to Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming, and that Zhou “slept with them before introducing them.
Wang Xiaoyia and Cao Jianming were married in 2009. Cao is 13 years older than Wang. According to Reuters, which cited officials in Beijing’s political, legal and propaganda systems, Cao married Wang Xiaoyia, one of CCTV’s most popular anchors, as a result of “sexual bribery” by Li Dongsheng, then Vice Minister of Public Security and director of the “610” office, who was also a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, to the leadership of the Communist Party. The “part of.
The “safe landing” of Jiang Zemin’s thigh all the way to the top for reporting Zhou Yongkang.
Cao Jianming, 68, is a native of Jiangsu province, and was director of the Supreme Procuratorate before his transfer to the National People’s Congress. In 1999, after Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong, Cao Jianming returned to China to make political capital and rise to the top. In 2002, Cao was again promoted to executive vice president of the Supreme Court for his active cooperation with Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Falun Gong. Cao Jianming was also targeted by the International Organization to Track Down Falun Gong Persecution overseas for his persecution of Falun Gong.
Cao Jianming was one of Zhou Yongkang’s most important henchmen in the political and legal system. When Zhou Yongkang was investigated by the authorities, it was rumored that Cao Jianming was like a “bird on a string. According to an article in the 48th issue of the overseas magazine Foreign Affairs, Cao began to “lapse into a trance” after being interviewed several times by the CCDI, and fell into a state of malaise. The source even used the phrase “terrified” to describe Cao’s state.
As to why Cao Jianming has now “landed safely”, the source even used the term “terrified” to describe him. According to Hong Kong media sources, Cao Jianming voluntarily explained his problems, mistakes, and serious dereliction of duty during the review period, and reported Zhou Yongkang’s “serious violations of discipline and law” and criminal schemes that were not yet known to Zhongnanhai, and was eventually treated lightly by the Beijing authorities.
The report reveals that Zhou Yongkang told Cao in late October 2012 that “Xi has the backing of the military and the second generation of the Red Army, so (we) need to be prepared for two things,” as part of Cao’s exposé. One of the preparations Zhou Yongkang made was to flee to northern Europe with his family when the situation was bad.
When Zhang Chunxian and Cao Jianming wielded enormous power to persecute human rights in China, they had the protection of the Chinese Communist Party system to do their dirty work. Now it is the U.S. that is helping the Chinese, who have nowhere else to turn, to punish these human rights thugs. One netizen tweeted that the incident was “quite ironic.
Another user jokingly said, “It’s not impossible for Wang Xiaoya to go to the United States after Li Xiuping, just get a divorce. But you have to hold on to the remaining 20 days or you won’t be able to get a divorce next year when the cooling-off period comes.
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