On December 10, the U.S. State Department issued sanctions against 17 foreign officials for serious human rights abuses, including Huang Yuanxiong, chief of the Wucun Police Station of the Xiamen Public Security Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party. Analysis suggests that Huang Yuanxiong, who was sanctioned, is just a grassroots police officer in Xiamen. The U.S. move is actually a shock to the Ministry of Public Security and Zhongnanhai.
In accordance with Section 7031(c) of the Department of State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020, on December 10, the U.S. Department of State placed 17 former and current foreign officials involved in serious human rights violations on a sanctions list that will hold them and their immediate family members accountable.
“The world cannot stand idly by while the Chinese (Communist) government commits horrific and systematic abuses against the Chinese people, including violations of the internationally recognized right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief,” The announcement issued by the State Department said.
The sanctions apply to Huang Yuanxiong and his spouse. They will not be allowed to enter the United States under relevant U.S. regulations.
According to reports in the official Chinese Communist Party media, Huang Yuanxiong, 45, is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and has been a police officer for 22 years, having served as an instructor in the second police squad at Wucun Police Station of the Siming Branch of the Xiamen Municipal Public Security Bureau. He has been awarded a series of “honorary titles” within the Communist Party’s public security system, including “Top Ten Police Officers” in Xiamen.
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According to Li Linyi, this is not only because Xi Jinping himself has deep ties with Xiamen, but also because Xi’s close friend Wang Xiaohong, the current executive vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, and Lin Rui, another vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, were both promoted from the position of Xiamen Public Security Bureau chief.
Background of Wang Xiaohong and Lin Rui
Wang Xiaohong is currently the Executive Vice Minister (full minister) and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Special Branch of the Ministry of Public Security, and a member of the Central Committee.
Xi served in Fujian for 18 years, from June 1985 to October 2002, he was deputy mayor of Xiamen, Ningde Party Secretary, Fuzhou Party Secretary, deputy secretary of Fujian Party Committee, vice governor and governor.
Wang Xiaohong, 63, has served in the public security system of Fujian Province for 34 years. During Xi’s tenure as secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee (1990-1996), Wang served as the director of the Minhou County Public Security Bureau and the deputy director of the Fuzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau; he was later promoted to the post of director of the Fuzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, director of the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Bureau.
From September 2011 to August 2013, Wang Xiaohong was the Vice Mayor of Xiamen, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Political and Legal Affairs and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. During this period, Huang Yuanxiong was a police officer in the second police team of Wucun Police Station of Xiamen Siming Public Security Bureau.
In October 2013, Lin Rui took over the post of Xiamen Public Security Director from Wang Xiaohong and moved up to the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China in November 2018. Xi, meanwhile, assumed his new position as vice mayor of Xiamen on June 15, 1985, his 32nd birthday.
Wang Xiaohong and Lin Rui have both held key positions in Fujian’s political and legal system and the CCP’s public security system.
According to Li Linyi, Xiamen is a springboard for senior officials in the CCP’s political and legal system, and even for Xi’s promotion. The U.S. warning now directly targets the two vice ministers of the Ministry of Public Security.
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