Tag: Jiang Zemin

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 Leader Xi Jinping’s New Year Speech Signals Backtracking to Mao’s Dictatorship

Commentary On Dec. 31, 2021, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping delivered a New Year speech through state-run media, boasting of 2021 as a “landmark” year of “exceptional significance” and “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” The Chinese nation, however, has something different to say amid the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP’s purging of…


Power Struggle Within CCP Intensifies as Top Officials of Gestapo-Like Office Purged

Commentary Amid Xi Jinping’s recent anti-corruption campaign that targets China’s political and legal system, many officials who were recently taken down were part of the “610 Office.” On Oct. 24, China’s eastern province of Jiangsu announced that Chen Yizhong, former deputy director of the provincial public security department, is under investigation. The announcement also noted…


Former Deputy Director of China’s Gestapo-Like 610 Office Charged for Corruption

Peng Bo, who once worked for a secretive agency that is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party in carrying out decades of atrocities, has been charged with corruption crimes. China’s top procuratorate, the state prosecutor for the communist regime, announced the charges against Peng on Oct. 11. However, the announcement did not mention what…


Former Chinese Justice Minister with History of Human Rights Violations Under Investigation

The Chinese communist regime has placed Fu Zhenghua, a longtime official in China’s public security sector, under investigation. While the regime has not disclosed details of the investigation, Fu is known to have committed human rights violations for years. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, a party organ for policing corruption, issued a short statement…


China’s Implementation of ‘Double Reduction’ Indicates Political Infighting

On July 24, the General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the “Opinions on Improving and Reducing the Burden of Students’ Homework and Off-campus Training in Compulsory Education (Opinions),” which was effective immediately. The Opinions explicitly put forward the “double reduction” policy, that…


Media Companies Linked to Chinese Exile to Return Millions to Investors in SEC Settlement

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sept. 13 charged three U.S.-based media companies over illegal unregistered offerings of stocks and digital assets. The companies—New York-based GTV Media Group and Saraca Media Group, and Phoenix-based Voice of Guo Media—are affiliated with Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire living in exile in the United States. The three…


China to Wipe out ‘Black Sheep’ From the Party Amid Power Struggle: Experts

A stream of calls from Beijing to eliminate “black sheep” within China’s sole governing political party cast light on its ongoing power struggle, experts say. In the past week, China’s top public security agency repeatedly declared to root out the remaining forces of several former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members; even though the so-called…


Communist China’s Repression on Faith Group “Must End,” Irish Lawmakers Demand

DUBLIN, Ireland—Meditation, faith, and self-determination are rights bound to people “from the womb to the tomb,” but those upholding the fundamental freedoms in China suffer persecution, says an Irish politician. Waving hands to people in symbolic yellow T-shirts at a rally, Independent TD (Teachta Dála, member of the lower house of Irish Parliament) Mattie McGrath…


Amid China-US Maritime Tension, Chinese Rear Admiral Is Sacked

Song Xue, a rear admiral and deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy was removed from his post as a delegate to the regime’s rubber-stamp legislature and suspected of “serious violation of discipline and law,” according to a notice from the Standing Committee of the legislature on April 29. According to an…