Is Xi Jinping Afraid of Being Beheaded?

According to reports from state media, during his visit to the Joint Operations Command Centre on November 8, 2022, Xi Jinping was flanked by He Weidong, Liu Zhenli, Xi Jinping, Zhang Shengmin, Li Shangfu, Zhang Youxia, and Miao Hua from left to right. (Video screenshot)

[People News] After the U.S. military beheaded Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei, reports emerged that the Chinese Communist Party is intensifying the expansion of underground works in Beijing’s Western Hills. Outside observers speculate that Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping fears being beheaded like Khamenei, and is therefore speeding up the expansion of underground shelter facilities.

According to a report by New Tang Dynasty Television, on March 6, Liu Min, who had participated in the 2022 Chengdu White Paper Movement, posted on the X platform that a Beijing resident had revealed that the Western Hills area of Beijing is currently under continuous 24-hour construction, with large-scale underground works being built. Many local residents are discussing that this is the Chinese Communist Party leadership, including Xi Jinping, expanding the underground command center in the Western Hills. The source said that construction and expansion in the Western Hills area have been ongoing since last year, and that the scale is getting larger and larger.

The source recalled that his grandfather had once mentioned that during the Deng Xiaoping era, large-scale underground bunker projects were built in the Western Hills. Many of the military personnel who took part in the construction at that time never returned home and were never heard from again. Their families were only told that they had “sacrificed” themselves while carrying out a special mission, but the specific circumstances were never made public. There have even long been rumors among the people that these individuals were buried underground together with those bunker projects.

Now that large-scale underground construction has once again resumed in the Western Hills, many local Beijing residents feel uneasy. Some are privately discussing the matter, believing that Xi Jinping fears a “beheading operation” like the one that struck Ali Khamenei, and is therefore hurrying to expand underground command and shelter facilities.

The source said, “People living in Beijing have, more or less, heard about these things. The more one understands these situations, the more frightened one feels inside.”

These rumors quickly drew attention, and many netizens mocked in the comments: “He talks about the people every day, but what he really trusts is concrete and steel.” “Not bad — netizens have now provided the precise coordinates, making future precision beheading convenient.” “This is a great thing — Xi Jinping is digging his own grave!” “No matter how deep he digs, it is useless. Blow up the ventilation shaft and it becomes a tomb.”

Some also said, “If the entrances, exits, ventilation system, and so on were all bombed, wouldn’t it just become a huge mausoleum? … Then pour an extra layer of cement over the outside to seal it firmly, and a few thousand years later when archaeologists excavate it, it will be another ancient tomb. I wonder whether Xi Jinping’s body would be preserved as a mummy or just a skeleton.”

Britain’s Financial Times disclosed as early as last year that the Chinese Communist Party might be building a giant military command center in western Beijing, possibly the largest in the world, perhaps even ten times the size of the Pentagon.

The report cited a former senior U.S. intelligence official as saying that the Chinese Communist Party’s most important and safest military command center is currently located in Beijing’s Western Hills and was built during the Cold War, while the new underground facility is larger in scale and deeper in structure, and may become a new joint operations command center to enhance resistance against U.S. bunker-buster bombs and nuclear attacks. △