Former Shanghai deputy mayor and public security chief Gong Daogan was announced double-opened on Feb. 10. Previously, Chongqing Vice Mayor and Public Security Director Deng Cullin had already been double-opened. Both of them were considered as the new stars of the Ministry of Public Security for the crime of having no “four consciousnesses”, deviating from “two safeguards”, deludedly discussing the major policies of the Central Government, and participating in the party’s gangsterism, followed by Economic and corruption issues.
The Central Inspection Group announced before the Chinese New Year that the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China had “failed to purge the residual influence of Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei and Sun Lijun”.
Combined with the previous Xi Jinping Central Commission for Discipline Inspection put down heavy words, the central government within a month three talk “political three forces”, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department jointly issued a serious election discipline, clearly put forward “ten forbidden”.
Observers believe that Xi Jinping has taken the political and legal system as a breakthrough to strengthen political and organizational control, and has fought the 20th power defense battle. The first Time the government has been re-elected to a second term, there is still no doubt about Xi Jinping’s re-election. How much resistance will there be to overcoming term limits? Why is he particularly uneasy about the political and legal system?
Gao Guangjun, a U.S. lawyer and former teacher at China’s Public Security University, analyzed that the real crime in the double firing of Gong Daogan is that Xi Jinping is purging the political and legal system of “dissidents” and purging Meng Jianzhu, the king of China’s political and legal circles.
The government is also different from other officials who have been purged, as he is one of the few public security officials who has worked directly from the grassroots to the position of vice minister, and is a direct descendant of Meng Jianzhu.
The purpose of Gong Daogan’s purge is now clear to us, and it is to purge Meng Jianzhu, the king of China’s political and legal circles,” said Gao Guangjun. The company is also different from Sun Lijun, who is connected to Meng Jianzhu through his wife. Gong Daoan has been in Hubei grassroots, how did he get involved with Meng Jianzhu? The case of Zhou Yongkang is still the origin. At that time, Zhou Yongkang’s case, the central government finally decided – mainly because of Meng Jianzhu’s opinion – to put the case to Hubei for trial. The main two places in Hubei, one is Yichang, one is Xianning, most of them to Yichang, a small part to Xianning. At that time, Gong Daoan has been transferred to Beijing, he highly recommended his good friend Deng Guolin to preside over the trial in Yichang, another good friend Dong Guoxiang was then the secretary of the Xianning District Political and Legal Committee, Secretary of Public Security, is also my classmate. This person and Gong Daoan were arrested around the same time and sentenced to eight years. After the trial, Deng Cullin took office, and Gong Daogan also went up a level, one was sent to Shanghai, and one was sent to Chongqing. They both then became Meng Jianzhu’s direct line.”
Yu Ping, a legal scholar in the United States, commented that one of the charges for the double firing of Chongqing Vice Mayor and Public Security Director Deng Cullin was “deliberately discussing the central government” to stifle free speech and maintain the authoritarian system.
Yu Ping said, “In the area of purging political and legal work, Xi has also done a lot of work since he came to power, one of the more obvious ones that people have not paid particular attention to is that he changed the ‘National Conference on Political and Legal Work’ to the ‘Central Conference on Political and Legal Work ‘. A good number of people thought this was just a matter of vocabulary, but in fact it signaled that what had been a relatively liberal issue of law and order became directly a matter of political security and political system within the central government. As a result, starting in 2014, the ‘National Conference on Political and Legal Work’ became the ‘Central Conference on Political and Legal Work’, held every January, each time with his emphasis on increasingly strengthening the leadership and central authority of the central government. If you look at the Central Political and Legal Work Conference in 2014, put political security and authority in a very posterior position, but after 2016 2017 basically in the first place, from this can be seen ‘delusion of the central government’ is still aimed at maintaining a very authoritarian system such as one-person politics, one-party politics. “
Gao Guangjun pointed out that Xi Jinping has not fully grasped the “knife handle” since he came to power, which is a major problem for Xi Jinping.
It seems to me that he did not have full control of the “swordsmen” after he came to power,” said Gao Guangjun. The first time the Zhou Yongkang down, he relied on people is Meng Jianzhu, Meng Jianzhu everyone knows is a Jiangxi native, in the criticism of Sun Lijun we have seen that he is a two-faced person, said to Sun Lijun is actually to Meng Jianzhu listen. Meng Jianzhu is a real two-faced person. So the ‘knife handle’ aspect, Xi Jinping never fully grasp. We counted from the time of Meng Jianzhu’s 11 party committee members of the Ministry of Public Security, until today, all changed away. The last person to be replaced was another classmate of mine last year, Liu Yuejin, a member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security and a member of the anti-terrorism committee, who was removed. After all of them were replaced, they were still unsure because there are still many people in the middle who are two-faced, like Sun Lijun. Including the ‘knife handle’ of the characters around the world. The security sector and other departments have changed people very aggressively.”
According to Yu Ping, Xi’s purge of the judicial system has reversed China’s laws toward the rule of man, undermining the country’s legal achievements in reform and opening up. By purging the personnel of the political and legal system, Xi Jinping can, on the one hand, purge organizational forces that resist his personal dictatorship and, on the other hand, establish an ideological mindset that firmly defends Xi Jinping’s rule of man.
The government’s efforts to combat corruption in the political and legal system and purge the system of so-called disobedient people also have a deeper meaning than the rule of law, which is to reverse the rule of man. Of course, in this sense, it is possible that the political and legal sectors are now softly resisting his personal dictatorship and the power of one-party dictatorship. So the fight against the political and legal system has two aspects, on the one hand is to control the ‘knife handle’ inside their own hands, to serve individuals, to serve a very small part of the population. At the same time he also hopes that the political and legal system as a whole will not emerge as a voice contrary to the rule of others in terms of maintaining the so-called general situation of the country. In fact, we found in many aspects of domestic exchanges, many people in the legal profession, the front end of the public security, the courts and the inspection system, including lawyers, they are very resistant to personal autocracy, to the rule of man. So this point should be taken seriously. Not only does he want to ensure his future regime in terms of personnel, but more importantly, he also wants to reverse the past not to listen to individuals, but only to look at the law. Recently, many judges, prosecutors and lawyers working in politics and law have been very reactive and angry about why one of the greatest achievements of China’s reform and opening up over the past years is the gradual move from the rule of man to the rule of law. But now the approach of the leaders, now the approach of the central government is to gradually dilute the rule of law, emphasizing the rule of man. From this point on, I think he has two functions, one is the organizational purge, on the other hand the ideology should also firmly maintain his idea of the rule of man.”
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