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?
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.
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.”