[The Epoch Times, 3 novembre 2022](The Epoch Times Austin Bay columnist wrote / compiled by Qu Zhizhuo) Former Chinese Communist Party leaderHu JintaoHe was strangely removed from the Chinese Communist Party Congress on October 22, sparking heated discussions and speculation around the world.Xi JinpingIt is normal that such heated discussions and speculations are the goal of the war.
So far, at least tens of millions of people have seen itHu JintaoPart of the departure video My summary: Former leader Hu Jintao sits in the foreground in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, his successorXi JinpingOn the VIP seat next door.
Action: Approached by two senior staff members wearing surgical masks. Confused, Hu Jintao got up, took a document and appeared to be talking to Xi Jinping, then patted Premier Li Keqiang on the shoulder.
Then Hu was taken away.
China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, the Communist Party’s leading global propaganda agency, said Hu Jintao, 79, was “escorted” out of the VIP seat after “feeling ill.” CNN, a less reliable source, said Hu Jintao seemed “unwilling to leave”. Well, I agree with that.
According to the BBC: “The two most likely reasons for his (Hu Jintao’s) departure are that either he was part of the CCP’s power politics, a leader who represented the past was symbolically removed, or Hu Jintao had serious health problems. .
Outside of the BBC “oo”, both could be true, disease and game of thrones. Other commentators believe Hu Jintao may not have a physical health problem, but a psychological shock.
So why are the former CCP leaders shaken? In dictatorships, symbolic expulsion often precedes physical annihilation. Did this thought froze Hu Jintao’s brain?
Before Hu Jintao was forced to leave, Xi Jinping had removed his disciples and political supporters from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Denying the decision-making status of Hu Jintao’s supporters solidifies Xi’s personal hold on power.
Hu Jintao led China from 2003 to 2013, and his two five-year terms were ratified by party congresses every five years. His presidency is seen by many Chinese as “an era of openness to the world”. Chinese citizens have reasonable access to the internet. Hu Jintao’s opening echoed Deng Xiaoping’s “policy of reform and openness”, which aimed to build a market economy within China’s authoritarian socialist state.
After Deng Xiaoping’s death, the CCP leaders were re-elected for up to two terms, reflecting the CCP’s commitment to collective leadership. The claim of the dictatorship is that the system takes into account the authority of the senior dictator and balances the interests of the various factions within the party.
Hu Jintao resigned and relinquished the post to Xi Jinping.
But, prior to this year’s National Congress, Xi Jinping revised the party’s mandate limit rules. He ousted Hu Jintao’s supporters and changed the rules, almost guaranteeing Xi Jinping a life as the Communist Party’s top leader.
China has a culture of the face. “Face” is important in any culture. Consider American politicians denying a blatant “face-saving” lie to avoid humiliation.
However, Asia’s “culture of the face” goes further. The CCP’s face culture has a mafia undertone. The CCP’s systemic incompetence and authoritarian narcissism often spoil things, but it doesn’t want the world to know. The CCP police treat Wuhan’s conscientious doctors as criminals and crack down on their warnings about COVID-19.
ThoughtCo.com’s Charles Custer wrote, “Chinese society attaches great importance to hierarchy and reputation among social groups. People with good reputations can improve the social status of others by ‘giving face’.”
In front of the world, Xi Jinping staged a “murder in the face” of Hu Jintao. This murder has no bodies to deal with. In China, Hu Jintao’s bad reputation shows Xi Jinping’s strength.
Revitalizing the Chinese economy is not Xi Jinping’s game. War is Xi Jinping’s goal, a great war to conquer Taiwan and lead to war with the United States. Xi’s calculation is that the war will end in a stalemate due to the incompetence of the Biden administration. With US weakness exposed, US allies in Asia will bow to Beijing and Xi Jinping’s China will dominate East Asia.
The word kowtow is too appropriate here, with Hu Jintao murdered in the face, Xi Jinping is effectively the emperor of China.
About the author:
Austin Bay is a United States Army Reserve Colonel (retired), author, co-colonist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest book is Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.
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