38 Chinese military writers have applied to withdraw from the Chinese Writers Association, which is the first time in the 71 years since the association was established that a large number of writers have withdrawn en masse, triggering speculation, sources said the military to strengthen the clean-up of military participation in the association. The Chinese Writers’ Association’s announcement was quickly withdrawn to make it more sensitive.
According to the Central News Agency today reported that the Chinese military writers collectively withdrew from the China Writers Association, the first time in 71 years since its establishment. A total of 38 Chinese Communist Party military writers recently applied to withdraw from the Chinese Writers’ Association. The report combined news from Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Daily and the mainland media qq.com, saying that the website of the Chinese Writers’ Association sent out an announcement on the 16th that “38 military writers have submitted applications to the association for withdrawal” and listed them, including many retired generals. The announcement has been removed.
This matter has attracted widespread attention. Fang Fang, former chairman of the Hubei Writers’ Association, kept a diary of what he saw and heard during the new virus epidemic early this year, and published his thoughts and criticisms, even collecting and publishing a book in Europe and the United States, sparking controversy over “smearing the country,” while Zhang Anfan, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers’ Association, backed Fang Fang. The news said that it was once speculated that these military writers quit en masse to protest against the Association’s long-term “protection” of Fang Fang.
A leftist netizen, “Mr. Mingde”, wrote, “I support with both hands the withdrawal of military writers from the Chinese Writers’ Association! The banner is clear, the position is firm: Only the People’s Liberation Army!” He also criticized “the Chinese Writers’ Association for its love for members Wang Fang (Fang Fang) and Zhang Zhangshuang, but its condescension to the people.” In this regard, the secretary of the Chinese Writers’ Association Qiu Huadong was reluctant to talk about it when he was queried by Sing Tao Daily yesterday, but said it was “a requirement of the army in the process of military reform, with no special meaning.”
According to sources, the Chinese military has been cleaning up the issue of military participation in associations in recent years, and since the first half of this year, the military commission has become stricter in implementing the rules, higher-ranking officers must clear out of all kinds of associations, and can only keep at most one association related to their careers. In March, the General Office of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued newly revised regulations to further increase the restrictions on military personnel’s participation in associations, including the clarification that “those who are over 70 years old must withdraw from their associations,” and so on.
According to the Central News Agency, Lu Tianming, a famous Chinese writer, said on his Weibo account that the military not only asked its own writers to withdraw from composition associations, but also asked military personnel who participate in associations of the Cultural Federation to withdraw from these associations, in order to prepare for war without fear. Lu Tianming said this is the first time in 70 years that such a collective withdrawal has occurred, and the lack of any official explanation inevitably leads to speculation.
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