The Split of the High-Level CCP ----- The Second Cultural Revolution of Xi Jinping

 

Xi Jinping's father was in the Cultural Revolution 

The Cultural Revolution was kicked off by a big-character poster by Nie Yuanzi fifty years ago. The bottom-up model of the top leaders' voices being expressed by seemingly grassroots statements has transformed Li Guangman's self-published article into a "big-character poster" in today's online era.

 Public opinion at home and abroad was in an uproar, suggesting that Xi was about to launch another "Cultural Revolution.

However, something interesting happened: Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, who has always been accurate and hawkish, suddenly denied Li Guangman's article and directly criticized it as a serious "misjudgment and misinformation".

Why did Hu Xijin suddenly disagree with the central government's propaganda caliber? Is it Hu Xijin or Li Guangman who represents the voice of Xi Jinping, the central orthodoxy? And what is the mystery behind it? Mr. Jiang Feng, a self-published political analyst, and commentator made his detailed analysis and interpretation in his latest episode of the "Jiang Feng Comic Talk" program.

Hu Xijin criticized Li Guangmang: two voices within the central government and even two central governments

The Second Cultural Revolution Xi Jinping

We know that the Global Times, of which Hu Xijin is the editor-in-chief is one-party media that also forwarded Li Guangman's article. Therefore, it is obvious that Hu Xi Jinping's criticism of Li Guangman's practice not only violates Xi Jinping's supreme requirement that "the party media should be surnamed the party" and that the media must be consistent with the Party's goals.  Even as the editor-in-chief of the Global Times under the People's Daily, Hu Xi Jinping has violated the so-called party organization principle that subordinates obey their superiors and localities obey the central government, which is most disgusting to Xi Jinping. That is what Xi Jinping finds most objectionable.

There is only one explanation: there are two voices within the central government, even two central governments. So who represents the real Central Committee, or who will survive the brutal struggle within the Party and become the new leader of the Party Central Committee?

Hu Xijin has been known as a skillful dog holding a frisbee in China.  In the past, even if the Party threw out a stone plate or iron plate, Hu Xijin could take it in one bite.  Now it is complex: The Party Central The committee throws out two plates, which one does he hold? Hu Xijin is obviously doing a huge risk.  Hu Xijin knows very well in his heart. Hu Xijin August 26 on blogging has "flirted", "think about how much you have said over the years, think about when speaking how many people hold up their cell phones to record ...... The next social death will be my turn. Thinking about it, I shivered ......". As a long-time immersion in the power struggle of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Xijin is quite aware that his political life is falling into the situation of life and death decisions.

Let's see whether it is Li Guangman, or Hu Xi Jinjin, who represents the current orthodoxy of the central government, that is, the voice of Xi Jinping.

Let's look at the timeline and the events that happened on this thread. let's look at what has happened recently.

After the Beidaihe Conference, on August 17, the Central Conference on Finance and Economics, convened by Xi Jinping, issued a call for "common prosperity".  The CCP would no longer use the market but administrative means to forcibly achieve this redistribution of wealth, in line with the recently introduced end of the rural land contract policy.   In other words, a new round of "land revolution" will be carried out for the whole society to complete the redistribution of national resources.

On August 26, the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, published an article entitled "Developing People's Democracy in the Whole Process," with the title specifically stating that this is a new theory. This is the fourth article published in the official media since August 4 that discusses "all-process democracy.

On the same day that Hu Xijin's parent organization, People's Daily, published this article, Hu Xijin published a microblog that "said something uncritical" and "trembled". This means that Hu Xi Jinjin has read the beginning and irreversibility of all this change, and that it is the voice of Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping's first mention of "full process democracy" in 2019 was snubbed by the Chinese propaganda system.

Why is Hu Xijin shivering at this time? What this "whole process democracy" is the first thing we need to find out.

On November 2, 2019, in Yangpu District, Shanghai, Xi Jinping first proposed the so-called "whole process democracy".

As soon as he raised it, it immediately aroused all kinds of speculation and discussion. Still, after that, except for a micro-commentary issued by Xinhua News Agency, other official media did not make a further interpretation on it.

That is very unusual: first of all, Xi Jinping's speech needs to be paved first, this "whole process of democracy", no central propaganda department or other media first to a release, such as "Seeking truth" magazine or the Central Party School speech first proposed.  No, instead Xi Jinping in Shanghai field inspection first proposed.

In the history of the CCP, whenever the power struggle within the Party is at its most acute, the top leader often going away and letting the wind out on his own.  Then letting the central government's cronies catch the wind and start the political struggle. The conflict between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi at the 7,000th Congress sharpened.  Mao was responsible for the CCP letting tens of millions of people starve to death and the national economic collapse? In order to get rid of the responsibility, Mao Zedong operated the "Cultural Revolution", and he did not play this thing in Beijing.

In 1966, Mao Zedong met with Kang Sheng and Jiang Qing three times in Shanghai.  He said the Beijing government led by Peng Zhen and the Central Propaganda Department led by Lu Dingyi were "unable to get a needle in, unable to splash water in". Then Jiang Qing asked Zhang Chunqiao, the propaganda minister of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, to conceive and find a writer, Yao Wenyuan, to write an article, which started the "cultural revolution" by cracking down on the cultural circle and criticizing "Hai Rui's dismissal".  You see, the level of Yao Wenyuan is now the level of Li Guangman's self-media.  In Beijing Kang Sheng found Nie Yuanzi to write large-character posters.  It is also from the bottom up.

Why the regeneration of the Cultural Revolution still has a mass base and social soil?

I notice that some people think that Xi Jinping is far worse than Mao Zedong, and without the prestige of the Party and the military, he cannot launch a new "Cultural Revolution". But when Mao Zedong defended his supreme leader's power during the Cultural Revolution, he was also resisted by the central government and the bureaucracy. He did also have to rely on some small creep to make waves? In the end, the entire Party, inside and outside the dynasty, were all affected by the "Cultural Revolution", marshals, generals, which is not the hands of military power, a group of senior generals with their own lives, but no one has the ability to say "no", not even the ability to defend themselves. What is the key? The key is the slavish official position in Chinese culture that has made these evils possible.

Xi Jinping was able to complete the revision of the Constitution and establish a cult of the individual in less than a decade. How did he manage to make everyone obedient when they saw him, like North Korean cadres with a small notebook in hand to write his instructions?  The "Cultural Revolution" could happen not because of the leader's vigor, but on the contrary, if the leader had a truly unparalleled ability, there would be no need for the "Cultural Revolution" to defeat the opponents. Therefore, it was not the leader's courage but the combination of the Chinese Communist system and the Chinese slavish culture that created the tyrant. Thus, the "Cultural Revolution" still has a very nutritious mass base and social soil for regeneration.

 

Note: This essay was written by Jiangfeng,  published on Sound of Hope, translated and edited by Menze Zhu