More likely is anyone caught reading the article will be tossed into a prison camp. Mao did something similar when he allowed people to criticize and then knowing who the outspoken critics were he had them rounded up and mostly exterminated.
Xi is militant, he's been saber rattling around the Pacific, building up the Chinese military, obviously working on bio-weapons (one of which we already got hit with, perhaps inadvertently), and aggressively crushing dissent in Chinese territories. He's bad news but I can imagine a worse sort being the boss over there. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy isn't your friend, he is just another of your enemies.
I’ve been familiar with the Epoch Times for a lot longer than people have been linking to it here. They started giving it away free in San Francisco probably a dozen years ago, maybe more.
It was pretty obvious after reading it four or five times who was behind it, because in addition to general news it always had an article here or there about Falun Gong and how loveable they were and how picked on they were. And how they TOTALLY, TOTALLY, weren’t any kind of organized group, perish the thought.
Also the Epoch Times advertised that Chinese cultural show, Shen Yung or whatever it was, with a special glossy insert, leading me to surmise that the show was also a Falun Gong vehicle, which it was.
The overall effect reminded me of how the Moonies had all these front groups who would present themselves as independent, but they would all “coincidentally” show an affinity to Reverend Moon. Usually by giving him an award which he would so humbly accept.
BTW, I know someone who is a Moonie, and through them I actually saw Reverend Moon once, ate his chicken dinner, and EVEN drank the grape juice, although I had Jim Jones in mind as I was doing it.
Anyway I’m no fan of the Moonies, but don’t consider them to be the worst characters out there, and have even less problem with the Falun Gong people except to the extent they sort sort of disguise who they are.
But the Epoch Times, which used to routinely publish stories of how many million Chinese had resigned from the Party each week, greatly exaggerates the weakness of the regime. If so many were quitting as the Epoch Times would have you believe, every member of the party would have quit three times by now.
In this regard they reminds me also of Gordon Chang, who used to be on the John Batchelor show, which I loved to listen to because he had the most erudite tone and portentious music, but none of the stuff he reported on ever panned out, PARTICULARLY what Gordon Chang said, about how the regime was tottering on its last legs. I don’t buy it.
Term? The chairman of the CCP doesn’t stand for elections.
Term? The chairman of the CCP doesn’t stand for elections.
“Anti-Xi Article Goes Viral, May Derail Xi Jinping’s Plans for Third Term”
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Funny
We will see if the author is correct or not just about the time that the Marxists Democrats lose the House in congress.
Xiao might just be foolish or shrewd enough to start a limited military action in order to call for national unity and jail his opponents or to put the whole country under unlimited martial law from a non-existent outsider threat.
Grab a lot of popcorn and soda now. It’s going to be a long summer and even longer Fall.
Oh no! If he doesn’t get a third term, a different communist will win!
Presently, Xi et al are resetting the whole Chinese economy by destroying and eliminating private business on a national scale. Companies owned and or controlled by the government will be given control of the business entities destroyed.
There is an economic sea change in progress.
I believe there is in fact major political dissention but the economic destruction will prove telling as those who have prospered and experienced some freedom, and led lives with ownership of nice stuff will object by refusing to participate in the change.