Hua Guofeng arrests the “Gang of Four
In 1980, when the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held nine consecutive meetings, the 59-year-old Hua Guofeng took the initiative to resign from the chairmanship of the CPC and the chairmanship of the Military Commission. From then on, he avoided the public eye and stayed away from politics, spending 27 years of his Life in seclusion.
The first of these was the arrest of the “Gang of Four” a month after Mao’s death, which ended the decade-long Cultural Revolution. The Gang of Four was a major event in the history of the Communist Party, but Hua Guofeng never spoke publicly about it or expressed his opinion. What is the reason why the Chinese Communist Party media did not mention a word about it?
Li Haiwen, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party’s Personal History of Major Historical Events, wrote an article saying that Mao Zedong considered the Gang of Four “not a big problem” during his lifetime and specifically said, “Don’t make a big deal out of it. Not to mention the issue of dealing with the “Gang of Four” on the agenda.
But Hua Guofeng arrested the Gang of Four a month after Mao’s death, including Mao’s legal wife Jiang Qing, a move that proves Hua Guofeng did not really adhere to the principle of “two mortals”. Ironically, after his resignation, Hua Guofeng was accused by the Chinese Communist Party of having made a mistake in adhering to the “two cardinal principles”, and Hua admitted this mistake.
It is speculated that Hua himself knew that he did not follow Mao’s idea to deal with the “Gang of Four” incident, but “took the initiative” to quickly arrest the “Gang of Four”. As Mao’s handpicked successor, Hua was reluctant to revisit this part of history and did not want to exaggerate his betrayal of Mao.
After the capture of the “Gang of Four”, Ye Jianying, a senior member of the Communist Party of China, called Hua Guofeng “thick and less literate” and praised him for his historical contributions. The role of Ye Jianying himself in the capture of the “Gang of Four” is also pivotal.
Huaguofeng was sidelined by Deng Xiaoping
When Hua Guofeng resigned as the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party, it was widely believed that he was sidelined by Deng Xiaoping.
Deng Xiaoping is a legendary figure in the history of the Chinese Communist Party who has been “three times down and three times up”, but after his last “up”, he returned the favor by sidelining Hua Guofeng, who had saved his life. Why did he do this?
After the arrest of the Gang of Four, from the central to the local level, Hua Guofeng received high praise and support within the Communist Party, while occupying a strong position of power in one. But he accepted Ye Jianying’s proposal to restore Deng Xiaoping’s power to read the CPC Central Committee’s documents, and then, under a series of arrangements, let Deng Xiaoping “come on” for the third Time.
In the autumn of 1978, Deng Xiaoping had been reinstated for 14 months. At this time, Deng Xiaoping was restored to all his positions in the Communist Party and stood firm at the top, and his political demands were on the agenda.
Deng Xiaoping clearly knew that in order to hold real power again, he had to completely exclude Hua Guofeng, who had been so kind to him, from the political circle of the CCP. As the American Writer Salisbury put it, “Deng used every ploy, every tactic in Chinese political life to wrestle, to struggle, to talk and to argue fiercely. He was in power again.
Deng was embraced by the Communist Party patriarchs, and his rise to power had a political and military basis. Hua Guofeng, on the other hand, was parachuted in directly from a local provincial cadre to the top of the Communist Party, almost becoming an anomaly in Zhongnanhai. During the celebration of the fall of the Gang of Four, Hua Guofeng hugged the crowd at the Tiananmen Tower and waved at the crowd only after being reminded by Du Xiuxian, the Communist Party’s royal cameraman, to look like the leader of the Communist Party.
The first of these is to refute and criticize the “two mortalities” as a prelude to the exclusion of Hua Guofeng from power, and then to dismantle the power in his hands and criticize his The political line. In the end, the man who had been in power for less than four years and who was known as a “wise leader” had to resign and hand over his power. Huaguofeng was sidelined from the CCP political scene.
Hua Guofeng’s resignation from the party
In 2001, The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported for the first time that Hua Guofeng had resigned from the party.
In his statement on his resignation, Hua Guofeng was reported to have said, “The Communist Party now is no different from the Kuomintang of the past.
The Chinese Communist Party also overthrew the Kuomintang government under the slogan of “anti-corruption and anti-authoritarianism”. However, for more than 50 years, the Communist Party has maintained a one-party dictatorship, suppressed human rights, deprived the people of their freedom, engaged in corruption, and abused the judiciary more than the Kuomintang government did back then.
In 2005, several foreign media outlets reported that Hua Guofeng had proposed to Hu Jintao to resign from the Party on the grounds that the CCP had betrayed the legitimate rights of peasants and workers, and that the CCP represented the interests of corrupt officials and capitalists. The media also reported that those who followed Hua Guofeng to submit the report of resignation from the Party were: the former director of Hua Guofeng’s office, Hua’s old security guard, Hua’s confidential secretary, and Hua’s full-time driver. This was in fact a collective withdrawal from the party by one party branch.
In public, Communist Party officials are tight-lipped about Hua Guofeng’s resignation from the Party, but they do not dare to deny it publicly. At a Foreign Ministry press conference on November 6, 2001, a Japanese journalist asked Zhu Bangzuo, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, “Did Hua Guofeng ask to resign from the Party?
Zhu Bangzuo said, “This question is not within my scope to answer, don’t ask such questions at the Foreign Ministry press conference in the future. A media analysis at the time said that Zhu’s evasiveness was an indication that the incident was not a windfall.
According to official information, Hua Guofeng, a member of the Central Committee since the First Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), took leave of absence on the grounds of “health” and did not attend a single plenary session of the CPC Central Committee or a single central working meeting until his death in Beijing on August 20, 2008.
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