There are currently two main viewpoints.
⏺️ One view is that they opposed Xi Jinping’s plan to attack Taiwan and secretly engaged in so-called “non-organizational activities” disloyal to Xi.
These “non-organizational activities” involved preparing politically, economically, and in all other aspects to clean up the mess and take control of China’s situation in the event that a Taiwan Strait war fails.
Such activities were not limited to within the military; they also extended to mutual networking between military officials and those in party and government departments.
As a “red second generation,” Li Shangfu has long had extremely deep ties with the Deng Xiaoping family. Wei Fenghe also has very close connections with the Jiang Zemin family. This is the most fundamental reason Xi Jinping wants to severely punish these two men.
☝️ The above view was put forward by former Peking University professor Yuan Hongbing in an interview with The Epoch Times.
⏺️ The other view holds that Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by the anti-Xi elder faction.
After Zhang Youxia was arrested, Liu Yuan — a highly prestigious “red second generation” reformist general in the military, and son of former Chinese Chairman Liu Shaoqi — has already taken control of the 82nd Group Army. CCP elders have entered the underground Xishan Command Center to continue holding meetings. The fully armed 38th Army has its artillery barrels coldly pointed at Zhongnanhai. As soon as the Xishan Command Center issues an order, heavy armored vehicles could flatten Beijing within five hours.
Xi Jinping now only has Cai Qi’s Central Office left. His recent trip to Shanghai was to plead with Zeng Qinghong (former Vice Chairman of China) and the Jiang Zemin family.
☝️ This view was proposed by self-media commentator Jiang Feng, who has over 2 million subscribers/followers on YouTube and X.
❓ Which of these two views do you think is more credible?
🪖 The People’s Liberation Army Daily stated today: “The army holds the guns. There must never be anyone in the military who harbors disloyalty toward the Party, nor any hiding place for corrupt elements. Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, as senior leading cadres of the Party and the army, suffered a collapse of faith, lost loyalty, betrayed their original mission, and abandoned Party principles. Their actions have failed to live up to the trust and heavy responsibility placed on them by the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, seriously polluted the political ecology of the troops, and caused enormous damage to the Party’s cause, national defense and army building, as well as the image of senior leading cadres. The nature of their offenses is extremely serious, the impact extremely bad, and the harm particularly huge. The legal sanctions they received are entirely self-inflicted, deserved, and of their own making.”
Judging from this wording, their problem is clearly a political and loyalty issue, not a corruption issue. Otherwise, why can’t they even publicly disclose from whom and how much money was embezzled?
❓What do you think?
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