Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping took the opportunity to visit the Xiangjiang River Battle Memorial Park in Guangxi on the 25th to reintroduce the “Long March of the Red Army” and the “bloody battle of Xiangjiang River” in his speech. This is believed to be a crisis of power for Xi. A photo published by official media of Xi in Guangxi with a gloomy look and white hair also drew attention.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi Jinping, who is visiting Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, went to the “Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park” in Caiwan Town, Quanzhou County, Guilin City, on the morning of the 25th, in addition to laying a flower basket and visiting the Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Hall.
Xi cited the historical fact that the battle cost more than half of the military strength at the time as an example, saying “persevere in the most difficult times so that we can keep achieving miraculous victories”. Xi also said that the Chinese Communist regime “should think of the Long March of the Red Army and the bloody battle of Xiangjiang River when the difficulties are even greater.
Immediately after Xi’s remarks, Xinhua launched a short video on its website to promote the history of the Battle of Xiangjiang and published a report paying tribute to the Communist troops who died in the battle.
According to historical data, the Battle of Xiangjiang River took place between late November and early December 1934, and was an important battle in the first Communist civil war.
The Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the Communist army, which was under siege by the Nationalist government, broke through the encirclement and shifted its positions to western China, a process the Communist Party called the “Long March. The Communist Party called this “Long March” and was pursued by the Nationalist Army because of the large number of packs and slow marching speed, and the two armies fought along the Xiangjiang River in Guangxi. Although the Communist army eventually fled the battlefield, more than half of the original army of nearly 100,000 men was lost, leaving only about 40,000 men, which is considered by the Chinese Communist Party to be the worst battle in the history of the Communist army.
The Central News Agency (CNA) also reported that the war also intensified the disagreement over the CCP’s internal line and dissatisfaction with the leadership, which indirectly led to the “Zunyi Conference”. It was at this meeting that former CCP leader Mao Zedong was added to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and entered the decision-making circle, from which he held the power of the CCP until his death in 1976.
The “Long March” of the Red Army, which began in 1934, was traditionally propagated by the Communist Party as an anti-Japanese expedition to the north, although this lie has long been a laughingstock. The route was from the Communist “Soviet” areas in Ganan and other areas to northern Shaanxi. The Japanese army was occupying the Great Wall line, in the northeast. The truth that has been widely revealed is that the Red Army was forced to flee northward because it was besieged by the national army.
For Xi Jinping in Guangxi to commemorate the bloody battle of Xiangjiang River, current affairs commentator Situ Jian pointed out that Xi Jinping’s inspection in Guangxi, the official media deliberately published a photo of Xi looking heavy, hair white, which is of course related to Xi Jinping’s sense that the Chinese Communist Party is facing international siege, trapped in isolation in the background, especially in the South China Sea expansion triggered a war is imminent. Xi’s reintroduction of the “Long March” indicates that he will not hesitate to take the lives of his people in a bloody battle, which echoes the frequent foreign declarations of war preparation in recent years.
However, he believes that Xi is more interested in promoting nationalism to divert pressure from domestic crises, including divisions within the Communist Party line, so that he can be re-elected at the 20th National Congress next year. This is the same reasoning that Mao Zedong used to consolidate his power through the “Long March”.
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