The Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the 13th Party Congress on May 20. The outside world noticed that when Zhou Junbo, deputy director of the Political Research Office, introduced the relevant situation of the drafting of the report of the Party Congress, whenever the word “Party Central Committee” was mentioned, “General Secretary Xi Jinping” must be mentioned first. For example, Zhou Junbo said, The drafting work of the report insisted on “deeply implementing the decisions and arrangements of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the CPC Central Committee”; Guangdong “relies in the final analysis on the strong leadership of the General Secretary and the CPC Central Committee”, etc. Zhou Junbo also boasted that Guangdong’s development “relied on the authority of the general secretary to set a single, final word, and the general secretary’s care and love.”
Guangdong is regarded as the power base of the Xi family, and Li Xi, the current secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, is considered to be a close associate of Xi Jinping. Less than 3 months before Beidaihe’s vacation, Guangdong Province was full of firepower to support Xi Jinping, and even suggested that Xi Jinping was greater than the Party Central Committee, which was interpreted as a high-profile declaration of political stance in the CCP’s infighting. As a traditional political highland, whether Guangdong Province can attract other local officials to follow up by doing so has become a window to watch the political situation of the CCP.
In addition, on the 20th, the People’s Daily used the 9th page to discuss the issue of strict governance of the party. The theme of the long article on the headlines is to deeply study the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which actually seems to be beating the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and Jiang Zemin.
The article begins with a quote from the third historical resolution that criticized Jiang Zemin by name. This passage hints that the CCP had a problem of “relaxing and soft governance of the Party” during Jiang Zemin’s reign, leading to “serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military.” Fortunately, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign “fundamentally reversed” this situation.
The article also directly pointed the finger at the core of the CCP regime, saying, “Since the 18th National Congress, our party has been focusing on party building, first of all the building of the Central Committee, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and its Standing Committee. . . . . . . In terms of rules and fulfillment of the political responsibility of governing the party and the party, he sets a benchmark and sets an example for all comrades in the party.”
Wu Guoguang, a professor of political science at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Zhao Ziyang think tank, former general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said in an exclusive interview with Fa Guang in May this year that there are many voices dissatisfied with Xi now, but due to the characteristics of the CCP system, especially Xi Jinping’s control of the knife , gun barrels, etc. Even if there is strong dissatisfaction within the CCP, I am afraid it will be difficult to influence Xi San’s re-election.
Wu Guoguang predicts that before July or August at the latest, Xi Jinping will conduct a political purge of high-level political figures. First, he will use this to further deter the forces within the party that challenge him, and secondly, he will also take the opportunity to eliminate those he does not like. , vacating a seat to promote someone he likes.
Dr. Wang Youqun, a writer for Wei Jianxing, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, recently published an article agreeing with Wu Guoguang’s judgment, and proposed that the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the members before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China were sacked, and the political circle of the Communist Party of China may explode again this summer A thunder.
Just when the CCP was torn apart due to infighting, the international situation also began to undergo major changes due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Biden’s trip to Asia is considered a landmark event.
Biden made it clear at a press conference before leaving South Korea on the 21st that the Asia-Pacific region is a key battleground for the global competition between democracy and authoritarianism. On the 22nd, the U.S. embassy and consulate in China rebuked the official Twitter account in simplified Chinese, saying that China “continues to publicly mischaracterize U.S. policies. The U.S. does not agree with the “One China Principle” of the People’s Republic of China.” This is the second time that the United States has ruthlessly hit Beijing with Taiwan, the core interests of the CCP.
Politician Yan Chungou believes that the United States has changed its ambiguous strategy in the Asia-Pacific and is now targeting the dictatorial CCP. This clear strategic turn has changed the geopolitical landscape of the Asia-Pacific. The United States has Japan and South Korea in Northeast Asia, ASEAN in Southeast Asia, and Australia and New Zealand in the southern hemisphere. The Asia-Pacific anti-communist alliance has basically taken shape, and universal values are set up. After that, it is the problem of how to deal with the CCP, and the CCP faces the United States. String action, no power to parry, the prospect is bleak.
In the future, whether international pressure will lead to the downfall of the CCP first, or whether the CCP’s infighting will break out first, the outside world is waiting to see.