On September 7, 2023, Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the 18th East Asia Summit during the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, February 28, 2024](Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Luo Ya interviewed and reported) The Two Sessions of the Communist Party of China are about to be held. Faced with official purges and an economic crisis, the performance of Li Qiang, the Premier of the Communist Party of China who took office in March last year, has attracted attention. Experts believe that Li Qiang has no actual power and the two sessions are just a formality, while Xi Jinping is inhumane, self-destructive to the economy, and claims that “the scenery here is unique”, which has blocked the CCP’s path to survival.
Xi Jinping destroys the economy and Li Qiang goes through the two sessions
During the two sessions over the years, the government work report of the Chinese Premier has been regarded as the highlight, and the outside world has paid attention to how Li Qiang will come up with ideas to save the economy.
Li Qiang said in Davos in January this year that China’s economy grew by about 5.2% last year, and the Statistics Bureau of the Communist Party of China subsequently released this data. But international experts generally question its authenticity.
Wang Juntao, chairman of the National Committee of the China Democratic Party, told The Epoch Times on February 28 that Li Qiang’s future economic work will be difficult, and the government report of the two sessions will not be of much interest. With Xi Jinping here, Li Qiang is just going through the motions.
“Because Xi Jinping has a set of ideas about China’s economy, which are not grounded and inhumane. (Xi) is a bit like Mao Zedong. Li Qiang must follow Xi’s ideas on the economy, so it’s not good. But on the other hand, Li Qiang If he does his own thing, Xi Jinping cannot accept it, because it cannot reflect the great progress and changes that Xi Jinping has made in China.”
In the past year, although the Beijing authorities claimed to support private enterprises and retain foreign investment, they also implemented the revised Counterespionage Law, and the Ministry of National Security repeatedly jumped to the forefront to intimidate all walks of life. At a time of economic downturn, the authorities are demanding “economic light theory” again. Wang Juntao believes that his internship with Xi Jinping is destroying the economy, but he insists that the situation is great.
“Obviously the situation is very bad, but he is trying to pretend that the situation is good. He said, ‘The scenery here is the best.’ In fact, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, China’s stock market was in a mess, while stock markets around the world were very good. . The Chinese people are well aware that they are very dissatisfied with him (Xi), and basically no one is optimistic about China’s economy.”
Wang Juntao believes that Xi Jinping’s life will be even more difficult in the future, because he now also knows that people have no confidence in the economy. Everyone knows that it is Xi Jinping who has destroyed China’s entire economy and China’s future.
It’s unlucky to deal with Xi’s cronies, but Li Qiang has no real power and stays out of the matter
Since last year, Zhongnanhai has experienced personnel turmoil. Li Qiang’s cabinet suddenly had two State Councilors, Qin Gang and Li Shangfu, dismissed. This is unprecedented since the CCP was founded.
Wang Juntao said that in fact, the Prime Minister of the State Council has no personnel power, and the power to form the cabinet is in the hands of Xi Jinping. Even if nothing happens to Qin Gang and Li Shangfu, they will not listen to Li Qiang’s transfer, so this incident will have little impact on Li Qiang. He stayed out of the incident, but it hit Xi Jinping hard.
“2023 was originally the so-called first year of Xi Jinping. It turns out that Xi Jinping has been in power for ten years, but there are two emperors (Jiang and Hu) above him, although these two emperors actually have to listen to him. After the National People’s Congress last year, he This was the first time he really took control of the party and government, and (power) became absolutely his.”
Wang Juntao said that Xi Jinping should have done a lot in his third term, but he did not expect to encounter great troubles in various aspects. People like Li Shangfu, Qin Gang, etc. were all promoted by Xi himself, especially Qin Gang, who was promoted out of the ordinary. In the end, Xi himself came to remove them, which was a very unlucky thing for Xi.
Li Qiang took office as prime minister after a chaotic epidemic lockdown period. Perhaps due to economic problems, compared with his predecessor, Li Qiang focused more on domestic issues and less on foreign affairs in his first year in office. The Epoch Times found that Wen Jiabao visited 7 countries in the year he took office, Li Keqiang visited 9 countries in the year he took office, and Li Qiang only visited 5 countries.
Wang Juntao said that Li Qiang has no power in diplomacy. The power is in the hands of Xi Jinping. Even if Li Qiang goes abroad, he is only implementing some of Xi Jinping’s instructions. Not only does Li Qiang have no real power, many of his on-site management powers in foreign affairs have been taken away by Wang Yi, who reports directly to Xi Jinping.
China’s public sentiment has changed dramatically, and Xi Jinping has blocked the Communist Party’s path to survival
Under the banner of Daxing Investigation, Li Qiang spent more time on “inspections” across the country after taking office. However, a recent private survey by Lu Dewen, a professor at Wuhan University, which reflected the plight of grassroots society in mainland China, was blocked by mainland media shortly after it was published.
In the past year, China’s suppression of human rights has become more severe, with frequent vicious incidents occurring in society, but the official blockade has become even stricter. In the past, Wen Jiabao could go to the Petitions Bureau to receive interviews, and Li Keqiang could communicate immediately when he was unexpectedly stopped by local petitioners to complain. However, Li Qiang did not show any contact with petitioners after he became prime minister. Against this background, China’s official sentiment and public sentiment have quietly changed over the past year.
Recently, after contacting and interviewing a woman familiar with the political situation of the Chinese Communist Party, Pierre-Antoine Donnet, the former director of the Central Editorial Department of Agence France-Presse, wrote an article in a mainstream French weekly revealing various issues in China The internal situation refers to “everyone feels scared and no longer trusted”; the financial crisis has caused one-fifth of civil servants in provinces and cities outside Beijing to not receive their salaries.
The insider said that the children of senior leaders at all levels, from deputy ministers to senior leaders, have either left China or are preparing to leave China. No one, from street sweepers to taxi drivers to the highest echelons of power, knew which way things were going, a level of frustration unprecedented in at least three decades.
The aforementioned person also revealed: Criticisms against Xi Jinping abound, and China seems to be “a pressure cooker that is ready to explode at any time.”
Wang Juntao, who has many news sources in mainland China, said that as far as he knows, the current public sentiment in China is indeed increasingly disappointed with Xi Jinping, even desperate, and thinks that Xi Jinping is shameless.
“If God wants him to perish, he must go crazy. In history, such a dynasty will be very arrogant and domineering for a period of time before it collapses. Human rights lawyers hope that China can progress. In the final analysis, rights protection still depends on the current system. to solve the problem, but now they feel desperate, it just shows that Xi Jinping has objectively blocked any way for the Communist Party to come back to life.”
Editor in charge: Li Renhe#
2024-02-28 13:13:00
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