The third volume of Xi Jinping’s series on strengthening the army has so far been published. The first part was published in June 2017, before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the second part was published in October 2019, before the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It was at this Sixth Plenary Session that Xi Jinping led the passing of the third historical resolution in preparation for the 20th National Congress.
This time, Xi Jinping ordered the entire army to learn his own so-called thinking at a critical moment in the power struggle, which is to once again strengthen the control over the barrel of the gun.
However, some observers believe that the recent rise of Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping have not appeared in official media reports for more than a week, showing that Xi has lost some power. In this context, it may be a bad idea for him to instill Xi’s ideas in the army. omen.
Times commentator Jiang Centure mentioned in the live broadcast that Xi Jinping personally ordered Didi to be banned from listing in the United States, but recently the Wall Street Journal revealed that the CCP regulators will end their investigation of Didi’s listing in the United States. Not allowing substantive abolition and clearing is a sign of Xi Jinping’s authority setback.
Johnson believes that under this circumstance, Xi Jinping’s campaign to learn idioms in the military may mean that he will take the risk of using the military to secure re-election, but it is unlikely that the military will launch a military remonstrance to appeal for re-election. The more likely model is When war is launched, Xi Jinping, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission, has great privileges once he enters a wartime state, and he can even postpone the convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Recently, many observers have suggested that as the power struggle intensifies, it is indeed possible for the CCP to resolve its internal political crisis by going to war with the outside world, but this is not necessarily initiated by Xi Jinping, or it may be that anti-Xi forces deliberately created a crisis to force Xi Jinping Go to war in order to seize power.
On the other hand, although rumors of Xi Jinping’s weakening of power continue to appear overseas, the Financial Times analyzed on June 6 that these rumors lack credibility, and it is difficult to find relevant evidence at present. The reason why Xi Jinping rarely appears in front of the camera , because it is the CCP’s political slack season, there is no major news, and when the chaos caused by Shanghai’s closure last month clearly made Zhongnanhai uneasy, the top decision-making level of the CCP still expressed strong support for zero, which proves Xi’s current status .
The Financial Times also mentioned that in the CCP’s real crisis, such as on the eve of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, different state media would broadcast different political views to convey high-level struggles. The state media even gave up on Jiang Zemin in 2004. The last title had previously removed Jiang from a photo, and there is no sign of that now.
The report argued that Xi’s power was still solid, and noted that whenever infighting within the CCP escalates, it is usually the losing party who arranges suspicious leaks overseas.