In recent years, after Zhou Yongkang and other “political and legal tigers” have fallen one after another, the CCP’s Political and Legal Committee has said that it will continue to remove the “black sheep”. Subsequently, a number of public prosecution and law enforcement officials have fallen. However, recently, the central inspection team named the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, not in place to purge the remaining poison. Whether another big tiger has fallen has raised concerns.
On February 8, the CPC party media reported that in September 2020, the mobilization and deployment meeting of the sixth round of inspections of the 19th CPC Central Committee was held, and on October 14, 15 inspection teams completed their stationing.
On February 3, 2021, the central inspection work leading group held the sixth round of inspection feedback meeting. The meeting was set up in Beijing as the main venue. Sub-meetings were set up in 32 inspected regions and units.
On February 8, the feedback of the sixth round of inspection was released centrally. 15 central inspection groups gave feedback to 17 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and 14 central units respectively.
The first central inspection team gave feedback to the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, saying that the Ministry of Public Security did not purge the influence of Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, Sun Lijun and other remnants of the poison was not in place and not thorough enough, and the mechanism of supervision and restriction of power operation in key areas and key links was not sound enough.
The three “tigers” mentioned above: Zhou Yongkang, former secretary of the CPC Political and Legal Committee, was sentenced to Life imprisonment in 2015 for accepting bribes, abusing power and intentionally leaking state secrets; Meng Hongwei, former member of the Party Committee and vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to 13 and a half years for accepting bribes in January 2020; and Sun Lijun, former member of the Party Committee and vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, fell on April 19 of the same year. Sun Lijun, a former member of the Party Committee and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security, fell on April 19 of the same year.
In fact, since Xi Jinping came to power, he has been conducting a major purge of the political and legal system. Zhou Yongkang and more than 10 senior officials from the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security have been taken down, and there are no statistics on the number of public, prosecutorial, legal and judicial officials who have fallen across the country.
According to China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily, as of July 28, 2020, a total of five cadres and 124 department and bureau-level officials in the political and legal system have been investigated since the 19th National Congress, including four cadres and 80 department and bureau-level officials, including Sun Lijun, former vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, who have been subject to party disciplinary and political punishment.
In 2020, a major purge in the CCP’s political arena continued to focus on the field of politics and law. In July, the CCP’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee said it would continue to remove the “black sheep” and achieve a “bone scraping type of self-revolution” for the political and legal system. After that, a number of officials from the public, prosecution, law, justice and political and legal committees have fallen.
As of August, more than 30 political and legal officials have been investigated as a result of this round of reorganization.
The CCP’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee is the highest body that controls the work of the public, the prosecution, the law, the judiciary, and state security, and is considered the biggest cancer in Chinese society and the biggest threat to China’s social stability. The CCP’s political and legal system has long been under the control of the Jiang faction, led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong.
From 1999 to 2020, Jiang promoted and reappointed Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang, Meng Jianzhu and Guo Shengkun, who were the four secretaries of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs. Among them, Zhou Yongkang, Meng Jianzhu and Guo Shengkun were all promoted to the position of Secretary of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs after serving as Minister of Public Security.
Although Zhou Yongkang and a large number of senior political and legal officials were taken down. However, some analysts believe that the situation of the political and legal system being controlled by Jiang Zeng and his cronies has not fundamentally changed. Now that the Ministry of Public Security has been named for its failure to purge the remaining poison, it is worth watching whether more tigers will fall.
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