Monday, June 15, 2020

Beijing's "wartime mechanism" is Xi Jinping's birthday gift?

Reporter : Li Yun
Editor : Fan Ming
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP via Getty Images

June 15 is Xi Jinping’s birthday, which coincides with the resurgence of the Beijing epidemic. According to Hong Kong media, Beijing under Xi Party's Cai Qi stated that he would “prevent and control” the epidemic prevention and control work in a disguised manner and send a “alternative” birthday gift to Xi in disguise. The Communist Party newspaper also issued articles that tout Xi and gave him a "low-key" birthday gift.

According to the Hong Kong Apple Daily, June 15 is the 67th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping, and June 14 is the 74th birthday of US President Trump. The celebration of the "front and rear" of the world's two major political giants has aroused heated discussion and comparison in the context of the current "full-scale confrontation" between China and the United States.

On Trump's birthday, Israel announced that it would allocate 8 million shekels (about 2.3 million U.S. dollars) to the Jewish settlement named "Trump Heights" on the Syrian Golan Heights after Trump. The media uses "Mr. President, Happy Birthday" as the title.

In addition, there are caravans and fleet cruises at Trump's Sea Lake Estate in Palm Beach, Florida, to send Trump a birthday present. A number of convertibles and electric bicycles, as well as a number of ships, cruised on the city's highways and coasts that day, and some of them hung the flag to support the re-election of the president.

Cai Qi gave an alternative birthday gift to Xi?

On June 15, major domestic media in the mainland did not see any reports about Xi Jinping, and no one posted posts on Weibo to congratulate Xi on his birthday.

According to Chinese Communist Party media reports, Xi Jinping was not in Beijing for the past few days. He “investigated the local poverty alleviation and ecological protection” in Ningxia from June 8 to 10, but the official media did not report Xi Jinping’s whereabouts for many days.

Apple reported that on Xi Jinping’s birthday, Beijing was under critical conditions due to the resurgence of the covid epidemic in Beijing. Xi Party's Cai Qi announced that it would “start the wartime mechanism for epidemic prevention and control” and that it should do “strict and fast” to prevent and control the epidemic. It is a disguised "alternative birthday gift" to Xi.

Xi's thoughts are Marxism of the 21st century?

The Communist Party Newspaper "Learning Times" published an article "Xi Jinping Thoughts are Marxism of the 21st Century", giving Xi a "low-key" "birthday gift."

The report said that on Xi Jinping's birthday, the party media equated Xi's thoughts with Marx and was one of the series of projects to deify Xi Jinping.

Current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao said that the party media’s article strengthened Xi’s core thoughts through school education. Until now, Xi’s thoughts are 21st-century Marxism, and they are all series of projects to deify Xi Jinping. The article extols Xi Jinping's merits and builds an image, mainly in order to deify Xi in various fields.

However, the article reflects that Xi Jinping has no substantial contribution to various issues and can only rely on the article packaging. Liu Ruishao believes that in the future there will be more articles praising various areas of Xi, even down to the praise of Xi as a "great educator" and "successor of Mao Zedong Thought".


Articles from the party newspaper are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution

Radio Free Asia quoted Chinese scholars as saying that the party media has “married” the “cottage” to the point of absurdity.

Faced with the trend of decoupling between the West and the CCP, the CCP wants to borrow the ancestors’ theory to maintain the legitimacy of the regime. The article in the party newspaper also reminds people of the period of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong was hailed as the pinnacle of contemporary Marxism.

The scholar said that the biggest problem of the CCP is that the ruling theory cannot justify itself. This can be clearly seen from the article in the party newspaper. Xi Xiang is the leader of the world, which in itself violates Deng Xiaoping's legacy of keeping a low profile and is eager to take the lead, falling to the point of global isolation. The party newspaper now came up with this theory, which is to smear the zombies.

A few days ago, Cai Xia, a professor at the former Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, criticized the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party as "a gangster completely" and asserted that "this party is already a political zombie." The economy may crash at the end of the year and early next year. . Cai Xia believes that there is hope for China only when it makes substitutions.

However, Li Yuanhua, the former associate professor of Beijing Capital Normal University, said that no one can have any hope for this ruling party, the only way out is to disintegrate it. After its disintegration, China is a normal society. Just like other Western countries, it has democracy, the rule of law, universal values, and so on. But as long as the CCP exists, none of this can be achieved.

Mr. Zhou, a retired scholar who did not wish to be named due to security reasons, also said that no matter whether the substitution is made or not, whether Li Keqiang, Wang Qishan or others are in power, the so-called "Gentleman's Zeal, the Fifth Generation" will inevitably lead to the CCP. The old road of the Soviet Union faced a cruel "brittle" ending.

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