Posted on 09/26/2022 11:26:38 AM PDT by FarCenter
This was psychological warfare at its best. The world found Xi Jinping trending on Twitter on Saturday (the third top trend in India), albeit for reasons that did not make the Chinese happy. Twitter was full of unverified rumours about Xi being placed under house arrest in a palace coup. The reports said the Chinese president was detained after CCP seniors removed him as head of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The coup reports emerged after Xi’s return from Samarkand in Uzbekistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO).
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One of the reasons why the disinformation campaign around Xi's house arrest gained traction, as well as credence, is because the news depicted General Li Qiaoming as the protagonist leader to organise the coup. Qiaoming, 61, a former commander of the PLA Northern Theatre Command, has been favoured by Xi in a way that created dissatisfaction among many senior military leaders in China, according to experts. He jumped to a post which normally takes five years or more of service.
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Qiaoming's rise happened after 2013, when Xi came to power. He joined the PLA in December 1976, and is a member of the 19th CCP Central Committee. With experience in the Sino-Vietnamese War, he held several key posts in artillery brigade, military affairs division and training division before being appointed as chief of staff of the PLA 41st Group Army in January 2010. In less than five years, he was appointed commander of the PLA 41st Group Army in 2013. During the military reforms in 2016, he was promoted to deputy commander of the NTC. In August 2017, he became commander of the NTC—a post he held for five years.
Unlike other senior generals who rarely speak on major political issues, Qiaoming has been writing articles regularly. Interestingly, in 2013, he published an article 'The Historical Tragedy of the Non-Partyization of the Soviet Army', a lesson from the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was to illustrate the importance of the party to the leadership of the army. "The Soviet Union disintegrated because the party did not have its own army," he said.
Even some mainstream going on about.
Utterly ridiculous of what ‘journalism’ has become this day and time.
I don't get it.
With a put down coup? real or alleged to be real, the leader exhibits strength in surviving. and it serves as a warning to any others who contemplate a coup.
But a psyops, none of which was real? What does it accomplish?
The main reason I could see for a PsyOp like this is to help the regime identify those within who oppose them secretly or who are overly ambitious. When the “Maximum Leader” is seen as out of power, a few incautious covert opponents may jump.
What do you think?
Really? That’s the biggest psyop?
If I had to guess, I would say it’s a psy-op by groups related to anti-Xi factions within the CCP, trying to stir the pot and encourage those who are against Xi to take action. Or to get Xi to take action against them and thereby forcing their hand to act.
Basically trying to create a coup-attempt where the people who have the opportunity to do so are too reluctant to act.
I would say it had low chances of success but it’s not a bad attempt given how paranoid Xi is.
“He joined the PLA in December 1976,”
Then he was 15 when he joined.
Who wrote this, you didn’t provide an author.
Yes. Responses to the rumor have been ridiculous.
>>>So what was the reason for the psyops? And who did it benefit?
The article implies that it was started by other senior officers who have been passed over for promotion while General Li has advanced very quickly.
>>Who wrote this, you didn’t provide an author.
At the top of the OA, the author is Namrata Biji Ahuja.
https://www.theweek.in/authors.Namrata-Biji-Ahuja.html
Ghost of Kiev and Putin’s dying are other favorites, same for the CCP coup of Xi. All western Psyops from MI6. But, this is pretty much the only truly effective weapon we have, outside of directly engaging Russia and China in combat.
>>What do you think?
It’s more reasonable than other accounts, which tend to either be pure wishful thinking or outright rejection of the rumor without explanations.
Could be MI-6. The Brits have been really chafed over Hong Kong and don’t seem to be able to let go.
It originated out of India. Forget the person’s name. India media picked it up, and it spread from there.
The biggest psyop of recent days is that Joe is president.
Could have been used by Xi to draw out opposition by making him look vulnerable thereby emboldening his enemies.
Were there those within that we know believed or would have secretly supported a military coup ?
Neither do I. If the Chinese leaders are so ruthless that they imprison and murder enemies, dissidents and Muslims then how can they let rivals do this? Or is it all a fake or a rumor?
Send AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Stacey and Pelosi on a fact-finding investigative tour. Maybe even offer to pay their bail after a year or two or have an exchange for a spy or a sports star.
LOL, or if China doesn’t say anything, we won’t say anything.
Maybe they went missing like Amelia Earhart.
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