The Fourth Plenary Session to be held from 27 to 30 August 2025 to seal Xi's fate

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Will Xi Jinping's fate be decided? It is said that the Fourth Plenary Session will be held

Reporter : Tang Zheng / Editor: Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2025/05/22/a103989516.html / Image : Before the Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, there were frequent reports of unfavorable news about the party leader Xi Jinping. The picture shows a schematic diagram. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

Since last year, various anomalies have appeared in the officialdom of the CPC, especially the bad news about the party leader Xi Jinping has never stopped. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has not been held yet, highlighting the escalation of the internal struggle at the top. At present, there are reports that the Fourth Plenary Session will be held in Beijing by the end of August.

On 22 May 2025, independent commentator Cai Shenkun revealed in his self-media program that he had received news that the Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee will be held in Beijing from 27 to 30 August 2025. The meeting can be decided, and he speculates that various forces within the party have basically reached a consensus.

Cai Shenkun said that whether there will be major personnel adjustments at that time, and whether Xi Jinping will delegate power and hand over power, the outside world will pay attention to it. The future political and economic direction of China will be known in three months. Regarding the different opinions overseas about who will be promoted and who will be demoted, there is no definite news so far.

Cai Shenkun believes that at least at the level of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, He Weidong, Miao Hua and a large number of central committee members of the military may make a clear announcement at this meeting. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee is probably a major personnel reorganization of the party, government and military system. Various signs indicate that Xi Jinping has to make compromises under pressure from all sides.

Cai Shenkun also revealed that the military purge is still continuing. The latest news is that another group of important generals have been arrested, including General Huang Ming, commander of the Northern Theater Command, Lieutenant General Cao Qingfeng, deputy staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Military Commission, Lieutenant General Yang Cheng, political commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region, and Lieutenant General Fang Yongxiang, former assistant director of the Political Department of the Military Commission and director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which was originally scheduled to be held in the fall of 2024, has not yet been held. According to internal sources, Xi Jinping has long lost power, and the power of the Communist Party of China has returned to Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Military Commission, and the veterans.

After Xi's army came to power at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a complex state of power struggle soon emerged within the army. During this period, Defense Minister Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe stepped down one after another. In November last year, Miao Hua, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the Political Work Department of the Military Commission, stepped down; after this year's two sessions, He Weidong, vice chairman of the Military Commission, has been missing ever since.

In addition, Xi's chief secretary, director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission and director of the Office of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Zhong Shaojun, and Xi's right-hand man in the army, full-time deputy secretary of the Military Discipline Committee, Chen Guoqiang, were all transferred; the commanders of the three major war zones in the north, central and south were replaced.

Some observers believe that Zhang Youxia, with the support of the veterans of the Communist Party of China, manipulated the purge of Xi's forces.

On 6 May 2025, independent commentator Cai Shenkun broke the news on his own media that there will be major changes at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China. Faced with the current international situation and domestic economy, coupled with Xi's illness, the CCP elders have been unable to bear it any longer and are collectively forcing Xi Jinping to abdicate. They may give Xi some dignity so that he can withdraw from the CCP's political stage intact. Once the new leader comes to power, there will be new practices.

On 20 May 2025, former CCP Navy Lieutenant Colonel Yao Cheng posted on the overseas X platform, "I learned from a chat with a friend that the CPC Central Committee held an enlarged Politburo meeting in Beijing on 14 May 2025. All the members of the Politburo, elders and a large number of veteran cadres who could attend the meeting attended the meeting. The focus of the meeting was whether Xi Jinping should retire fully or partially but I learned from my acquaintances that no consensus was reached at this meeting, and a vote is still needed at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee but the date of the Fourth Plenary Session has been basically determined, which is August."

Retired U.S. Air Force General Blaine Holt previously wrote in Newsweek that the CCP is on the verge of collapse and Xi Jinping may become its last ruler.