Xi Jinping, who has been in power for nearly 10 years, has been sending out coup-proof signals since the beginning of this year. At the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in January he said, one after another, that “political and economic issues are intertwined, threatening the political security of the Party and the state…” and that the fight against corruption should “focus on corruption cases where political and economic issues are intertwined” and that “seriously investigate and deal with the two-faced people who are disloyal to the Party and who are subversive”. Xi Jinping’s unease is obvious and unconcealed, as it is not just about consolidating his power for the future of the 20th Communist Party Congress next year, but a real crisis.
The wind has started blowing again after Xi knocked down a large group of ambitious and conspiratorial people such as Bo, Zhou, Xu, Guo and Ling during his last term. In the first half of last year, Xi’s close friend Chen Xinxin, secretary-general of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, announced a “rectification” of the political and legal system, calling for the completion of a comprehensive overhaul of the system within two years, that is, before the 20th National Congress, saying that the focus would be on clearing up “disloyal and dishonest” The “two-faced people”, in fact, is aimed at officials who are disloyal to Xi.
Until recently, the authorities again mentioned the “residual poison” of Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, Sun Lijun and other senior members of the public security system, because after thinking that he had tightened his grip on the barrel of the gun, Xi Jinping’s biggest concern now is that anti-Xi forces are lurking deeper in the political and legal system, especially in the public security system, which holds the gun.
So, is it true that the public security system has become a major problem that Xi Jinping says “intertwines political and economic problems, threatening the political security of the Party and the state…”? From the recent official announcements of several public security “tigers,” one can speculate that an attempted coup, or at least a quasi-coup, against Xi Jinping has just been destroyed.
The latest person suspected of being involved in the “coup” against Xi is Gong Daogan, the former Shanghai public security chief.
On February 10, the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Gong Daogan, Shanghai’s vice mayor and public security chief, was “doubly fired” for not only engaging in power and money deals and illegally accepting large amounts of money and property, which are the usual corruption problems of corrupt officials, but also for “participating in a gang within the Party, causing serious political harm and The “bad political influence”.
The Chinese Communist Party has always had factions in the party, “fellow villagers into the same party”, “colleagues into the same party”, the so-called “Shanghai gang”, “Shandong gang The so-called “Shanghai gang”, “Shandong gang”, “Shanxi gang” power once sat large, Xi Jinping came to power to crack down on official gangs when a “group gang” charge, but even after the local gangs were de-powered, the military, public security and political system in the law The “gangs” are more intricate and complex, and not easy to remove.
Gong Daoan has long worked in the Hubei police, in October 2010 to Beijing as deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security 12 Bureau (Technical Investigation Bureau), later promoted to director, and then parachuted into Shanghai, fell in August last year. Gong made his fortune through the promotion of Meng Jianzhu, who was then Minister of Public Security and later Secretary of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs. He was in charge of the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, which is extremely sensitive, so will he use these resources to do something that Xi Jinping is afraid of?
As for Gong Daogan’s involvement in “gangsterism,” is it related to the former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun, who fell a few months before him, and Deng Zuling, former Vice Mayor of Chongqing and head of the Public Security Bureau? They both have a common old master, Meng Jianzhu.
Deng Cullin, the former vice mayor and public security bureau chief of Chongqing, who fell on June 14, 2020, was charged with bribery when he was transferred for prosecution on Jan. 22 this year. However, on January 4, he was officially informed of the charges of “double-opening”, in addition to corruption and bribery, engaging in power and sex deals, but also “participating in a group within the party to make political capital”, as well as “avid political speculation, delusional discussion of the Party Central Committee The official said that he was “involved in the party’s gang and political capital” and “ardent political speculation and deliberate on the Party Central Committee’s major policies”. As usual, the official did not specify the specific “illegal and disciplinary” behavior involved in Deng’s case.
With whom did Deng, an important official in charge of Chongqing’s public security, engage in a clique within the Party? It seems that the same can be said about Gong Daoan. The company is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of the United States of America. Deng was the head of the Central Committee’s Office of Political and Legal Affairs and the head of the Anti-Secession Coordination Office, and was Meng Jianzhu’s “chief butler” as the then secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee.
In addition to Gong Daoan and Deng Cullin, there is a higher-ranking public security official who may also belong to this “group,” namely Sun Lijun, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, who was named by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection a few days ago as having residual poison.
There have been rumors that Sun Lijun was involved in leaks and a coup against Xi, and some people have even reported to the media that Sun Lijun fired a shot at Xi’s seat frame, hitting a tire, a shocking detail. Although some of the rumors are hard to believe, but the official characterization of Sun Lijun’s problems are also “disregard for political rules”, “do not know respect, recklessly” these articles, he actually did what?
Sun Lijun has a special status, having been both the director of the State Security Bureau and the director of the “610 Office,” the head of the Communist Party’s Secret Police, and the only senior official in the Communist Party’s public security system with a master’s degree in public health.
The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 11 cited sources familiar with the matter as saying that Tencent executive Zhang Feng has been under investigation by the Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency since early last year for allegedly providing personal information collected by Tencent’s social media App WeChat to former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun without authorization.
If this information is true, Sun Lijun asked Tencent to covertly help collect certain personal information that could alert senior Communist Party officials, and the information being collected is certainly not that of ordinary people, or Sun Lijun has tampered with senior Communist Party officials and their families, possibly Xi Family members.
It is possible that Sun Lijun, together with Deng Guolin, who had the core secrets of the political and legal system, and Gong Daoan, who had a background in wiretapping, planned and created something against Xi Jinping, of which Sun is the central figure, and they have the support of higher-level forces behind them. This is not the action of a private vigilante against Xi, but an internal struggle at the top of the CCP. From Zhou Yongkang’s assassination of Xi Jinping to the current plot by three public security bosses against Xi, isn’t it the same thing? This is an event equivalent to a coup d’état.
This should be the reason why Xi Jinping called for a “rectification” of the political and legal system, and after the arrest of Gong, Deng and Sun, he also compared Sun Lijun with Zhou Yongkang and called for the strengthening of the clean-up of the remaining poison.
As for Meng Jianzhu, has been rumored to be investigated for a long Time, although there is a recent appearance in Zhongnanhai New Year’s reunion, but this does not mean that he is safe and sound. Meng Jianzhu has been broken hands and feet, powerless to resist, Xi catch public security group tiger, is to deter the forces behind Meng. It is well known that behind Meng Jianzhu is Jiang Zemin and Jiang Mianheng, father and son, and there is a violent infighting before the 20th CPC Congress?
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