Beijing Officialdom Ignores Ban, Gossiping About the Party Leader Becomes a Trend

Beijing Officialdom Ignores Ban, Gossiping About the Party Leader Becomes a Trend

[People News] As the Chinese Communist Party’s mandate wanes, its ability to intimidate society, the public, and officials weakens or even disappears. Anti-CCP sentiment and unauthorized discussion of the central leadership begin to snowball, growing larger and larger. The “great, glorious, and correct” image crafted by the Party’s propaganda machine—and the strongman image of the Party leader—collapse like an avalanche. Since Xi Jinping detained Central Military Commission Vice Chairmen Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, various discussions, mockery, and rumors targeting Xi have begun spreading rapidly among Beijing officials.

According to Chinese law professor Yuan Hongbing, speaking to Vision Times, despite repeated warnings from Xi’s authorities that officials must not “improperly discuss the central leadership,” Beijing officials seem no longer to care about such warnings. Especially after Zhang Youxia was purged, all kinds of judgments about Xi have been circulating privately among officials.

Yuan Hongbing stated that, according to conscientious individuals within the CCP system, among Beijing officials Xi is described as “a clown who insists on being emperor even after stripping himself naked.” Now Xi has finally torn off his last fig leaf himself, nakedly revealing what they call his blustering yet timid clownish nature.

Some whispers say Xi only dares to “turn the blade inward.” He is ferocious when cracking down on his own people, but when facing external adversaries, he does nothing but bluster with endless verbal artillery—an ineffectual coward. The Taiwan Strait war has not even begun, yet Xi has already eliminated all the generals in his own military. Xi, they say, is helping the United States destroy the PLA’s combat strength.

Others say Xi uses the slogan of “reunifying Taiwan” to deceive the Chinese people, providing justification for his obsession with power and his desire to formally ascend as emperor at the 21st Party Congress. In reality, they claim, Xi has no courage to confront the United States militarily over Taiwan. China currently holds two trillion dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds—this, they say, is Xi’s pledge of allegiance submitted to Trump.

Some officials remark that Trump’s capture of Maduro proves Trump has the boldness of a Liangshan outlaw—he means what he says. Meanwhile, Xi, through his “wolf warrior” loyalists, threatened to “cut off the filthy head” of Sanae Takaichi and turn all of Japan into a battlefield. Yet beyond verbal threats, there has been no concrete action to make Japan retreat. The “turn Japan into a battlefield” rhetoric has degenerated into street-thug boasting. On the diplomatic stage, Xi resembles Niu Er, the ruffian from Water Margin.

Other whispers say that Xi’s orders for military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan in exercises have effectively turned into free acrobatic shows, becoming entertainment for Taiwanese people after meals.

Yuan Hongbing stated that the various rumors indicate officials have already seen through Xi as possibly a useless political fraud who only dares to die of old age but not in battle. All his actions are “under the pretext of national reunification, in reality to implement personal absolute dictatorship.” Among officials, a widespread doubt has emerged: the political idol to whom they must bow and express absolute loyalty every day turns out to be a coward who only dares to engage in verbal attacks externally. If so, why should they continue to offer him political loyalty?

Yuan Hongbing also said that now not only CCP officials, but even the “little pinks” and paid online commentators have developed deep doubts and even despair toward Xi. They have realized that treating Xi as a political super-strongman in the past was in fact a huge joke. “Xi Jinping is now standing on the edge of this latent crisis cliff.”