Leaked Government Documents Reveal Chinese Officials Refused to Follow Leader Xi Jin Ping’s Orders

Epoch Times ^ | 08/30/2020 | BY GU QING-ER

[SeekAndFind]

Throughout Chinese history, the Qinling mountain range in China was referred to as “the dragon vein.”

Xi’an city, the ancient capital of at least 11 Chinese dynasties, is nestled among the mountains—a geological feature that divided China into its northern and southern regions. Qinling was considered a sacred site with connections to the rulers of the Chinese empire.

In modern times, local officials have illegally built luxury villas near the mountains and profited from them.

Since Chinese leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he has launched an overarching anti-corruption campaign to rid the Chinese Communist Party of his political rivals. Since 2014, Xi targeted corrupt officials involved in the Qinling villas and sought to demolish the structures.

Among them is the former Party boss for the northwestern province of Shaanxi, Zhao Zhengyong, who received a two-year suspended death sentence for graft. Zhao was known to have close ties to former Party paramount leader Jiang Zemin. A faction loyal to Jiang is opposed to Xi’s leadership.

But an internal government document about the Qinling “anti-graft” project revealed that demolition work has continually stalled, and that some villas were still in operation.

China commentators analyzed that this indicates Xi is not yet successful in ridding the Party of disloyal officials and getting his subordinates to fall in line.

[dp0622]

What’s a 2 year suspended death sentence?

Have they suspended death for him for two years? :-)

[BenLurkin]

A very loose noose.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, I was trying to parse that one too. Maybe originally sentenced to death, commuted to two years in prison (after one year of which he’s requesting they go back to the original sentence).

[mrsmith]

Epoch Times is a very good source. Still, don’t know what we can conclude from this.
Interesting.

[Zhang Fei]

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. My sense is that historically-speaking, Western rulers have been fairly safe from internal challenges, whereas elsewhere, rulers have always had to worry about being turfed by challengers all the way from the lowliest peasant to the courtiers who prostrate themselves before him daily. China’s first peasant emperor pre-existed Spartacus and, unlike his Roman counterpart, founded a dynasty lasting 400 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han

After his death, China’s First Emperor, who created China out of a dozen or so independent kingdoms (much like Korea and Japan today) famously had two of his heirs and their direct bloodlines exterminated by his closest courtiers, men he had appointed co-regents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Gao#Coup_following_Qin_Shi_Huang’s_death

[SunkenCiv]

Since Chinese leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he has launched an overarching anti-corruption campaign to rid the Chinese Communist Party of his political rivals. Since 2014, Xi targeted corrupt officials involved in the Qinling villas and sought to demolish the structures. Among them is the former Party boss for the northwestern province of Shaanxi, Zhao Zhengyong, who received a two-year suspended death sentence for graft.

Suspended... wha...

[libh8er]

I don’t think Xi is in full control of the military either.

[Trumpet 1]

If you do not repeat word for word what you are told to say, you are corrupt. Yeah but what if you really are corrupt and you do repeat word for word what you are told to say? Do you get a free pass? Seems like the rule of corruption is to tell the boss how wonderful he is.

[Spirochete]

... not yet successful in ridding the Party of disloyal officials and getting his subordinates to fall in line.

Sounds like President Trump.

[Paladin2]

China apparently has a large population.

Could be tough to get everyone on the same page.

[Secret Agent Man]

if he screws up big time in that 2 years, they will carry out the sentence

[mrsmith]

But America is ahistorical.
It’s a rationally structured government with limits and balances built in.
Our Founders, however, never saw that we would “rule the world” for a hundred years and accrue so much foreign influence within us.

Trump has been restricted in his response to China not by China, but by Americans- Americans who fill powerful roles and would suffer from confrontation with China.

Trump is in more danger from internal revolt then Xi.
Xi has feudal power.

[PIF]

China apparently has a large population.

Could be tough to get everyone on the same page.
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1.43 billion citizens and counting.

That’s why they have built even more re-reeducation/work camps - even big ones housing 10,000;
that’s why they have draconian laws mandating the death penalty for things like corruption;
that’s why they have social credit scores which limit an individual’s permissions and access;
that’s why they made a huge investment in AI facial recognition software;
that’s why there are cameras everywhere.

[HChampagne]

Xi wishes it were as easy to buy off fellow Chicoms as it is to buy U.S. Congress people.

[minnesota_bound]

this indicates Xi is not yet successful in ridding the Party of disloyal officials and getting his subordinates to fall in line.

He needs to call North Korea’s Kim.
Xi to Kim: I got a problem.
Kim: Not a problem. I fix.