Xi Jinping admits the biggest threat, party media severely criticizes someone for trying to steal power

Reporter : Li Yun / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/24/a103039029.html / Direct translation

Recently, Xi Jinping admitted at the plenary session of the CPC Disciplinary Committee that corruption is still the biggest threat. The party media published an article on the 23rd, severely criticizing some people for forming corrupt interest groups in an attempt to steal state power. Some analysts believe that this is a strong signal of the CCP's internal fighting.

From January 22 to 24, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing. Seven members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping attended the meeting. Xi mentioned many issues in his speech, including corruption in the political and legal system, corruption in poverty alleviation and people's livelihood, food waste, etc., and admitted that corruption is still the biggest threat in the party, so the party must be strictly governed.

The anti-corruption work in the financial field at this conference is still the focus of discussion. Xi Jinping once again mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of financial management departments, do a good job in the connection of financial anti-corruption and financial risk management, and internal supervision in the financial field, especially leaders at all levels. It is necessary to strictly control the family members and children and the people around them.

Xie Maosong, a political scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyzed that officials not only illegally collect cash, they may also accept bribes through different methods, including stocks, and the stocks are not necessarily held by themselves. This bribery method is not easy to trace.

He also said that financial security is an important part of national security. Failure to control finance will pose a threat to economic security and thereby endanger political security.

On January 23, the Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China set the headline to interpret Xi Jinping’s speech, saying that “political corruption is the greatest corruption. Some corrupt elements formed interest groups in an attempt to steal party and state power and engage in non-organizational activities.”

Critic Yang Wei said in an article in The Epoch Times that Xinhua News Agency interpreted Xi Jinping's speech, saying that some people were "trying to steal the power of the party and the state," sending a strong signal of the CCP's internal struggle.

Yang Wei said that Xi Jinping convened the plenary meeting of the Disciplinary Committee this time, just after the inauguration of the US President and before the two sessions, it was obviously calculated. On January 11, Xi suddenly said that "time and momentum are on our side. This is where our concentration and confidence lies." From Xi's perspective, it seems that external shocks are not the most important, but internal shocks are more deadly.

The Xinhua News Agency article reported on Xi Jinping's speech, which stated at the beginning "a struggle that cannot and must not be lost." This is obviously an internal struggle, not an external struggle. The article also described, "Some corrupt elements hide so deeply that they can pretend to...

Yang Wei analyzed that Xi Jinping instructed the party media to openly pierce the fierce internal fighting, which is quite rare. In the Communist Party of China, how many people "reversely boycott and act in violation" should not be a few individuals. Otherwise, there is no need to publish such aggressive propaganda.

Since 2021, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has issued disciplinary notices for 7 central management cadres within 11 days, and 6 of them have been accused of violating the CCP’s political discipline. Yang Wei said that this shows that there are indeed many people who are confronting Xi Jinping. The series of sanctions in the beginning of 2021 are quite confusing.

Beijing's anti-corruption fights against corruption

VOA analyzed that since Xi Jinping took power, he has pulled down the "big tigers" such as Zhou Yongkang, former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the CPC Central Committee, Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and Ling Jihua, former vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee. But the more Beijing's anti-corruption campaign, the more corruption.

In the New Year of 2021, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection dealt with ten corrupt "tigers" in two days. Among them, Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of China's "Huarong Group", was sentenced to death for taking more than 1.7 billion bribes. Deng Huilin, former deputy mayor of Chongqing and director of public security; Wen Guodong, former deputy governor of Qinghai Province; and Luo Jiazhan, former member of the COFCO Party group, were all transferred to prosecutors for review and prosecution.

On January 21, the Supreme Procuratorate of the Communist Party of China announced two arrest decisions: Hu Wenming, the former chairman of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and Wen Guodong, former vice governor of Qinghai.

The analysis believes that the CCP’s current domestic and foreign difficulties, the epidemic has severely hit the economy, and people’s minds have changed in the officialdom. In addition, the wolf diplomacy has caused global siege. Faced with many difficulties, Xi Kai’s “fighting the tiger” has the meaning of deterring officialdom.

Eight years after Xi Jinping came to power, the large-scale "swatting tiger swatter" campaign has not ceased. According to public reports, in the five years from the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, as many as 1.4 million "tigers and flies" were destroyed, of which 440 were investigated and prosecuted for party officials at or above the provincial military level and other central management cadres. More than 8,900 cadres at the department and bureau level were punished, and 63,000 cadres at the county and department level were punished.

Including Zhou Yongkang, a senior "state-level" senior who was repeatedly named by the party media for usurping power, Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, former vice chairman of the CCP Military Commission, and Bo Xilai, who was designated as "successor" by Jiang Zemin Group.

The analysis believes that the number of officials who have been sacked in Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign is indeed considerable, but compared to the current situation where the whole party is corrupt, this number is insignificant. Moreover, a group of recognized great corruption and behind-the-scenes instigators, led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong, are still at large. Critics therefore believe that Beijing's so-called anti-corruption is not an anti-corruption official, but mainly internal fighting.