[Epoch Times, July 24, 2021]On July 23, the Chinese Communist Party officially calculated that 56 people were killed in Henan floods and 5 people were missing. Zhengzhou’s direct economic losses amounted to 65.5 billion yuan. The floods are still continuing, and the hardest-hit areas are spreading, shifting to rural areas. Rescuers in the Zhengzhou-Beijing-Guangzhou railway tunnel continued to lift the bodies. The number of people searching for relatives online far exceeds the data on casualties. According to private estimates, there are thousands of corpses in the tunnel alone.
A year ago, Anhui was flooded, farmland was flooded, and floating corpses flowed everywhere. The female anchor of CCTV was lyrical to the people all over the country, praising the white floods as beautiful and vast as a “fairyland”. This year, torrential rains have become “one in a thousand years”, and the anti-intellect of the party media has reached an unprecedented height.
At the time when the people of Henan were “watching the sea”, Xinhua News Agency reported on the 23rd that Xi Jinping was visiting the Tibetan Plateau. The Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily announced that Xi Jinping flew to Linzhi, Tibet on July 21 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Tibet, and specifically emphasized that Xi Jinping learned of the Zhengzhou floods on the way and issued the highest flood relief instructions.
The Zhengzhou flood reached its peak from the 19th to the 20th. Xi learned the news on the way. There are only two possible situations. One is that the Henan Provincial Party Committee did not report it in time, leaving the people in danger and whitewashing peace; second, Xi has received the local government. Report or get news from other channels, but considering the celebration of Tibet’s liberation and highlighting the glorious century of the CCP’s history, the events are big and the party spirit is high and the lives are high.
According to the CCP’s political logic, there are both possibilities, but it is unlikely that Xi Jinping will be completely kept in the dark. With the CCP’s ability to control major event information and its control mechanism, it is not difficult for Xi to obtain the first-time information.
The party media reported that Xi was visiting Tibet and learned about the floods on the way. It seemed to imply the writing style of the Spring and Autumn Period. On the surface, he had concealed the sky for Xi Jinping. In fact, he achieved the high-level black goal of no silver in this place.
In addition, based on the domestic and foreign media reports and the CCP’s recent internal and external pressures, Xi’s surprise visit to Tibet is not so simple on the surface. There are still ghosts of high-level internal fighting and various signals of Xi’s desire to move the crisis.
First, Xi Tu plays the Tibet card and then demonstrates the right to add points to the political game
The top leaders of the Communist Party of China have visited Tibet only three times in history. One was General Secretary Hu Yaobang’s visit to Tibet in May 1980, the second was Jiang Zemin’s visit to Tibet in July 1990, and the second was Xi Jinping’s first visit to Tibet in the ten years since he took office. .
Jiang Zemin’s visit to Tibet coincided with the 1989 June 4th Movement. The CCP received unanimous international condemnation. The U.S.-China military exchanges and arms sales were suspended. The CCP faced an unprecedented crisis in power. However, Bush Sr. wrote to Deng Xiaoping twice within six months. After sending a special envoy to Beijing, Bush Sr. erroneously opened the back door for the CCP, approved a special exemption order, relaxed military sanctions, and continued to upgrade the “Peace Pearl” program of Chinese fighter jets, bringing the CCP back to life. Jiang Zemin was appreciated by Deng Xiaoping for his active performance in the June 4th crackdown, and enjoyed Deng’s political dividends.
Thirty-one years later, the CCP and Xi Jinping are facing a more serious crisis than before. The CCP has been held accountable by the world for spreading Wuhan pneumonia. The CCP’s ally, WHO Tedros, turned his back on his face, and wanted to advance into China for the second time against the new crown virus. Traceability. The United States announced the CCP’s cyber attack report to the world, opening a model of decoupling with the CCP in terms of technology and politics, and it is impossible to return to the China-U.S. honeymoon period after the Sino-U.S. Cold War. Western powers have already tasted appeasement in the CCP’s international expansion. Policy pains. The relations between the European Union, Japan, Australia and the Chinese Communist Party have also reached an unprecedented stalemate.
Xi chose to visit Tibet at this time. There is a strong sense of internal fighting. The major party media have issued press releases and comments. However, the entire network did not mention Jiang Zemin’s visit to Tibet in July 1990, and completely blocked Jiang Zemin’s inspection of Tibet. “China Communist Party News” reported, “Xi Jinping, as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, went to Tibet to celebrate the peaceful liberation of Tibet. This is the first time in the history of the Party and the country. He fully expressed the Party Central Committee’s support for Tibet’s work. , Care for the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Tibet.”
Another point is that the CCP and Tibet signed the “17-Article Agreement” on May 23, 1951. The CCP officially designated March 28 as the anniversary of the liberation of Tibet in 2009. Why did Xi Jinping choose to visit Tibet in July? Robert Barnat, a professor at Columbia University in the United States, pointed out that the official May 23 memorial day began with Hu Yaobang’s visit to Tibet on May 23 in 1980, and Hu Yaobang’s policy toward Tibet was dominated by gentleness and tenderness.
According to external analysis, Xi chose to visit Tibet in July to show that he did not agree with Hu Yaobang’s policy of being gentle with Tibet, but to perform a political strongman show to strengthen the CCP’s powerful rule over Tibet. At the same time, Xi Jinping seized the opportunity to play the Tibet card. One of his goals was to suppress the Jiang faction and opponents in the party and to add points to the game before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Second, Jin Chan escapes from the shell and relieves the pressure
This year’s 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China, the mainland is particularly plagued by natural and man-made disasters. In May, the Gansu Marathon encountered extreme weather, and 21 outstanding athletes died. Yin Honggang, secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, was transferred from Henan Governor to Gansu within two months. Hong Kong Ming Pao reported that Yin Hong is Han Zheng Shanghai’s great secretary and a figure of Jiang faction. After being transferred to Gansu, the house was up and down. The house leaked overnight and the political fate was overshadowed. In order to save his black hat, he found a county magistrate as a scapegoat and dealt with it urgently. The county party committee secretary committed suicide.
During the flood in Zhengzhou, Henan, Lou Yangsheng, secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, and Xu Liyi, secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, were both members of Xi’s “Zhijiang New Army”. The Duowei website with a Jiang faction background published the title “The CCP’s high-level voice mode has changed, and the two new Jiang troops accused of flood prevention failures”. The intention is very obvious, using the Zhengzhou floods to attack Xi Jinping.
The article quoted Hong Kong Ming Pao, “Lou Yangsheng is regarded as a member of Xi Jinping’s “Zhijiang New Army”. He is optimistic that next year the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be able to rise to the top. However, after he assumed his new position, Henan first suffered a fatal mine disaster, and now he has encountered it again. He really wants to sigh’delivered to Huagai’ in the torrential rain.” “A torrential rain once in a thousand years is a natural disaster, but if the subway response and rescue are not timely, it is difficult to say that it is not a man-made disaster.” The article even pointed out that he is also a member of the Henan Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee. Xu Liyi, secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, “I graduated from the Geography Department of Hangzhou University with a degree in geography. He also served as the director of Ningbo Water Conservancy. It stands to reason that he should be no stranger to water control, but Zhengzhou’s performance this time has fallen below the standard.”
Duowei.com’s article borrowed from Jiang’s new army character to point directly to Xi Jinping. Although it did not achieve the purpose of breaking the nerves and bones, it was somewhat of a shock to the mountain. No wonder Xi Jinping did not personally direct and deploy at this time, for fear of being caught by political opponents. The planned visit to Tibet relieved the pressure of infighting.
Human life is a matter of life. In the eyes of the CCP, the political destiny and future of all parties are the absolute interests. As for the lives of the people, housing and property, it is not even a number.
Third, build a strategic military base to deal with regional conflicts
Overseas Bloomberg, Free Asia, Reuters and Hong Kong South China Morning Post reported on Xi’s visit to Tibet. According to Bloomberg, Xi Jinping visited Tibet for the first time as the president of the state, confirming Beijing’s control over Tibet. Both Free Asia and Reuters mentioned that Tibet has become a strategically important place for confrontation between China and India, and absolute control of Tibet has become an important part of the CCP’s strategic deployment against the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.
In September 2020, Stratfor, a US geopolitical think tank, calculated in an unpublished report that since the 2017 Doklam standoff, the CCP has built at least 13 new military bases near the line of actual control, including 3 air bases. , 5 permanent air defense positions, 5 heliports, of which 4 heliports started construction in May 2020.
In 2020, after the border conflict between China and India, the Western Theater of the People’s Liberation Army deployed anti-aircraft missiles and long-range missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers in Tibet and Xinjiang. China and India sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the disputed border and deployed advanced military forces. Equipment, the two countries’ military deployment in the region has reached the highest level in decades. Satellite images have also monitored the Shigatse area of Tibet. The CCP is building new ground-to-air missile positions, ground and underground military installations, and railway terminals.
Xi Jinping’s visit to Tibet was accompanied by a member of the Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia, who is bound to meet with troops in the western theater in secret, which shows that the CCP attaches great importance to Tibet’s military strategic position.
Fourth, try to completely alienate Tibetan areas and cover up the illegality of the CCP’s occupation of Tibet.
The CCP has been advocating that the peaceful liberation of Tibet has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past decades. The Han-Tibetan family and the people in Tibetan areas live happily. In fact, after the 13th Dalai Lama declared Tibet independence in early 1913, Chiang Kai-shek did not use force to resolve the Tibet issue. In 1950, the CCP had more than 5 million troops and Tibet was forced to sign the “17-Article Agreement.” In 1959, Tibetans fought against the CCP’s enslavement. More than 80,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 fled to India. The 14th Dala Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, also fled overseas. In 1989, the Panchen Lama recognized by the Dalai Lama was detained by the CCP, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Another spiritual leader of Tibet, the 10th Panchen Lama, wrote the “Seven-thousand-Words Book” in 1962 and was purged by the CCP. He was tortured during the Cultural Revolution and was forced to marry. In the 1980s, he was poisoned by the Chinese Communist Party. Died of illness.
On the surface, the CCP shows a spectrum of national unity to ethnic minorities, but in essence, it brutally wipes out their national culture. Xi Jinping visited Tibet in 2011. Since then, Tibet has accelerated its opening to the outside world and the integration of Han and Tibetans has increased. However, the Tibetans’ own culture and monasteries have been strictly controlled, and the Potala Palace has actually hung a five-star red flag against the CCP. The Tibetans of the Tibet policy have been brutally suppressed.
Xi Jinping promoted Sinicization in Tibet and forced Tibetans to receive political education from the party. The Buddhist academy displayed not the Dalai Lama but the portrait of Xi Jinping, and the monks were forced to learn idioms. On July 23, Xi Jinping visited Lhasa’s scenic spots, Drepung Monastery, Barkhor Street, and the public square at the bottom of the Potala Palace. It was once the residence of the spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, but it was not the Dalai Lama who stood here to accept the “worship” of the masses. Lai is Xi Jinping.
Regarding Xi’s visit to Tibet, Deutsche Welle quoted a statement from the NGO International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) as saying: “Tibet is still a sensitive issue, and the Chinese authorities lack confidence in its legitimacy among the Tibetan people.”
Nowadays, the CCP is facing a desperate situation embarrassed on all sides, trying to prove its legitimacy by strengthening the control and alienation of Tibet, which is just a ridiculous performance in panic.
Editor in charge: Zhu Ying
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