Posted on 10/22/2022 8:04:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was physically removed from the Community Party Congress Saturday and his name was scrubbed from the country’s Internet as his successor tightened his ironclad hold on power.
The frail Hu, 79, appeared to look confused as he was hauled from his seat by a steward who repeatedly tried to lift the older man from his seat, drawing concerned looks from officials seated nearby.
Hu, who was seated next to Chinese president Xi Jingping, then put his hand on a sheet of paper placed on a folder in front of the leader.
Xi quickly put his own hand on the paper.
China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu, seated to Hu’s right, gave the former president’s folder to a steward, wiping his own head with a cloth after Hu finally stood up.
Looking distressed, Hu appeared to resist leaving as the stewards escorted him out, turning back to his seat at one point. On his way out, he exchanged words with Xi and patted Premier Li Keqiang, seated to the right of Xi, on the shoulder.
There was no explanation for the exit of the frail leader, who retired in 2013. Hu was escorted away from the congress by officials about halfway through the day’s events at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Hu’s abrupt exit appeared to be censored on China’s social media platform, Weibo, with searches Saturday afternoon for his name returning posts published before the weekend, Bloomberg reported.
Xi is in the midst of consolidating the effort that is expected to land him an historic third five-year term, making him the most powerful leader since the country’s revolutionary hero Mao Zedong.
Hu’s removal was watched by the 2,000 congress attendees and captured on camera.
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China Is China.
If you watch the video, You will observe that former President Hu Jin Tao was approached by a man in a surgical mask who grabs him by the arm and tries to pull him up.
Li Zhanshu, the chairman of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, the top leadership team in China, appeared to try to help Hu, but one of the men in the masks blocked him out, and his colleague Wang Huning, another party leader, behind him tried to pull him back. In a communist society like this, intervening in a removal out of kindness will get you on the blacklist as well.
Hu didn’t want to go and was resisting being removed, perhaps knowing if he did, he wasn’t coming back. As they tried to pull him out, he turned to Xi, as if to appeal to him and Xi just nodded his head, ignoring him and staring straight ahead. Hu put his hand on the shoulder of Premier Leqiang, a proponent of economic reforms and one of his proteges. Then, Hu was led away.
Perhaps the most telling thing was as Hu was being led away, so many of the people in the front row weren’t looking at him, as any normal person might under the circumstances — they were trying to stare ahead without any reaction–the sign of people who have been conditioned as to how to react, because they’re afraid they might be next.
Many speculated that he was removed in broad daylight for all to see by Xi, as a sign to all who were at the Congress, not to mention the world.
There was no official explanation given for what had happened to Hu, and it took place right after the international media was let into the hall, which could suggest it was done on purpose right at that point, so all could see.
Any discussion of the incident or “Hu Jintao” on the Chinese Twitter-like Weibo platform was censored.
What happened to Hu? We don’t know because they are not saying, and they may never officially say.
China Is China.
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I always wondered why that place was so China-ish.
RE: China Is China.
Well yes, but did the Xi regime raid Hu Jin Tao’s home the way they did our own Presient Trump’s?
They didn’t get a harumph out of that guy.
Hu’s social credit score is in the basement.
“The frail Hu, 79, appeared to look confused as he was hauled from his seat by a steward who repeatedly tried to lift the older man from his seat,”
Steward?
He’s a Xi bodyguard/thug.
Dude in mask is a Xi bodyguard.
Kinda like Trump, who became a non person to 80% of America after the coup. Uh, kinda makes me want to vomit but I guess nowadays you could say America is America.
Here they just do it online.
The guy’s forced exit was erased from social media and internet to be replaced by one saying he is “deeply ashamed for the dishonor to his family from the disrespect he showed to honorable Chairman Xi. He decided to leave before further embarrassment. His disgrace is a burden to him now.”
It’s like the MSM wants us to get all lathered up about what other countries are doing China, Russia and Iran to deflect us from what’s happening here in the USA, the UK, Western Europe etc. etc.
The funny thing is Hu helped Ping get into power to break free from the control of the former leader Jiang Zemin, who also previously helped Hu climb the ladder as the puppet to replace his previous puppet Hu.
At the moment of truth, Hu turns to his “ friend” Xi, who just sits there poker faced, just letting it happen.
Xi says “Who is Hu? I barely know of him”
Hu must have committed some vague offense to The Party. An offense that provides no chance of redemption.
Cancel culture at it's most totalitarian...
Dead Man Walking.
Some things never change.
Not sure how much power Hu had anyway. He is apparently experiencing dementia. The party members looked embarrassed for him and most just looked forward.
One analyst thought the guy is past his expiration date with health issues and they were giving him a mandatory retirement from the party. Who knows?
RE: One analyst thought the guy is past his expiration date with health issues and they were giving him a mandatory retirement from the party. Who knows?
OK, but why PUBLICLY do it in FULL CAMERA with the world watching? This looks less like “concern for his health” than a warning to any dissenters.
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