If Xi continues to fight, it will be the time for the party and Communist China to perish

 Direct translation

New theme in Beijing official circles: After Xi's great struggle, the party and the country will perish

 —A rumor in Beijing officialdom: If Xi continues to fight, it will be the time for the party and the country to perish

Reporter : Wang Duruo / Editor : Zhongkang / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0415/2205178.html / Image : Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, left, casts a vote as Chinese Premier Li Qiang looks on during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall in Beijing on 11 March 2025. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

Legal scholar Yuan Hongbing revealed to Vision China that a confidential document secretly formulated by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and only allowed to be read in "confidential rooms" in various places has not only failed to appease the turbulent emotions within the party due to Trump's tariff war, but has instead triggered collective panic in the CPC officialdom, plunging Beijing's political circles into an unprecedented atmosphere of despair.

According to Yuan Hongbing, citing people with conscience within the CPC system, the secret order was transmitted to officials above the county and regiment level between 7 and 9 April 2025, and it was strictly forbidden to take photos, record and excerpt. The document loudly announced the launch of a "decisive and great struggle" against the United States, but it was like "pouring cold water into a hot oil pan", causing officials to worry and explode. The whispers in the Beijing officialdom immediately formed a new theme: "Xi Jinping's struggle this time will become the last unfinished project, and then it will be the time for the party and the country to perish."

Informed sources pointed out that the core reason why Xi Jinping responded so aggressively to Trump's tariff war was not the tariffs themselves, but the fear that if he showed weakness, the international community would take the opportunity to re-mention the origin of covid and the responsibility of the CPC for concealing the epidemic, and hold it accountable for crimes against humanity and economic responsibility. This is exactly Xi Jinping's "political Achilles' heel", because the delay before the Wuhan lockdown in early 2020 was the result of Xi Jinping's personal command and deployment.

Not only that, officials also privately ridiculed the document's claim that the strategy of uniting Europe, Japan, Australia and other countries to "kick the United States out of the international circle and end American hegemony" was "a fool's dream and overestimating one's own capabilities", destined to become a historical joke of the Cultural Revolution. The technical bureaucrats in the diplomatic and economic and trade fields of the Chinese Communist Party generally believe that "this arrogant strategy will only intensify isolation."

Inside the officialdom, there are concerns about the coming "economic tsunami". Officials pointed out that among Chinese college graduates in 2024, less than one-third will actually find formal jobs. In 2025, more than 12 million graduates will join the job market. Coupled with the large-scale unemployment of migrant workers, unprecedented social pressure may be formed. This wave of "unemployment after graduation" will become the first wave of "storms" under the impact of Trump's tariff war, which is likely to shake the foundation of the CCP's stability maintenance system.

What is even more alarming is that rumours within Beijing claim that Xi Jinping has planned to "return to the Cultural Revolution model" and restart the state-monopolized economy and supply system, and may even try to divert the internal crisis through war by launching a war in the Taiwan Strait. However, some officials bluntly stated that this strategy of "returning to the wartime system" is self-destructive.

The military is also unstable. An insider of the second generation of the Reds revealed that there is a serious phenomenon of "two-faced people" among senior officers of the Communist Party of China, and they are generally unfaithful to Xi Jinping. Once the Taiwan Strait War breaks out, it will provide a historical opportunity for the dissatisfied factions in the military to mutiny and remove Xi.

Yuan Hongbing pointed out that the Communist Party of China originally hoped that this document would serve as a "reassurance pill", but it turned out to be a comprehensive warning. Not only did the unrest spread within the party, but even the most trusted bureaucratic system in Zhongnanhai also showed cracks, and there was a collective doubt whether Xi Jinping's line had brought the Communist Party to the brink of death.

"This is the true mental state of the CPC now: fear, pessimism, and confusion." A saying is circulating in the officialdom: "After this 'great struggle', it will be the countdown for Xi and the CCP regime to perish together."