Tag: infighting

China Sets Up Mechanism to Monitor Its Spies Amid Domestic and International Turmoils

Chinese Ministry of State Security, the regime’s intelligence apparatus, is under more stringent supervision, while the communist regime fears loss of control of its ever-present secret agents. The regime’s spy chief published a commentary in early June, demanding loyalty to the CCP and prioritizing the monitoring of China’s spies by setting up a new monitoring…


Beijing’s Secret Trial of Chinese-Canadian Billionaire Indicates Power Struggle Within CCP: Analysts

News Analysis A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon with reported links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elites was recently on trial in Shanghai after five years of forced disappearance. China observers say the situation indicates a power struggle among political rivals within the CCP system. Xiao Jianhua, 55, appeared in a Shanghai court on July 4. The…


Xi Jinping Signals to Purge Jiang’s Faction: China Experts

Commentary A pro-Beijing Chinese language news portal recently published a series of articles, commemorating “the 30th Year of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour.” As of Jan. 27, at least nine articles have been published on Beijing-based DW News on Deng’s south tour, which Deng intentionally conducted to voice his policies of the socialist market economy amid…


CCP Faces Unprecedented Internal Crisis as Revealed by Purging of Top Police Official: Expert

The administration of Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a rare warning against his rivals at a recent national police meeting, a move that an expert says indicates that the communist regime faces an unprecedented internal crisis since the downfall of a Chinese vice minister of public security. On Jan. 24, Xi’s close ally and party…


Sudden Death of Former Shanghai Mayor Draws Attention to Infighting Within Chinese Leadership

News Analysis With the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) getting closer, the death of Yang Xiong, former mayor of Shanghai, has drawn people’s attention to the power struggle within the CCP, especially between Xi Jinping and former leader Jiang Zemin. The 20th National Congress will be held in the autumn of…