The enigma of 3 recent deaths in CCP's top echelon 2023-12-17 15:28

Hi, good morning. Good evening. Hi, everyone. Welcome to LazeRail Talk. All right, it's weekend. It's Sunday morning. It feels great to do my live stream in the mornings. It feels great. I hope everyone has had a great weekend so far. Someone asked, where is everyone? Yeah, maybe because I changed the time, people aren't ready yet. But anyways, we have a very interesting discussion ahead of us. I've given it a lot of thought. So let's get started. In the past few months, we've seen unusual deaths in the top echelon of the CCP, right? The death of former Premier Li Keqiang, the death of Xi Jinping's former chief bodyguard, and also the alleged death of former foreign minister Qin Gang. There were also the downfalls of the defense minister and the rocket force. Each event is shrouded in mystery, and the connections between them are even more obscure. But there's clearly a massive political cleansing going on, and the scale of which is unprecedented in the history of CCP. So today we'll explore the question, why? Why does Xi Jinping feel so threatened by his close aides? We'll focus on the three death cases, but I'll mention five. First, I'll talk about five weird happenings, and three of them are the death cases. Then we'll talk about why is Xi Jinping purging his close aides, and then we'll offer some possible explanations from an expert. So I've identified five unusual happenings. These are the five that I picked, and I think they're related to a brutal internal power struggle. You have heard four of them, and I have discussed all four separately and quite extensively. However, when we looked at them, we only looked at them individually or independently. Once we look at them in their totality, they present a different view, and that is the current state of CCP politics is highly unstable, and something dramatic has happened. So now let's first go over the five events. The first is the absence of the third plenary session of the 20th Party Congress. According to CCP's own traditions, the five-yearly Party Congress holds seven plenary sessions, with the third plenary session dedicated to topics on the economy, and is a more important one out of the seven. Deng Xiaoping's famous economic reform was produced or was the product of the third plenary session of the 11th Party Congress in December 1978. And since then, CCP has been holding the third plenary session between September and December of the year following the Party Congress, and the date of the session is usually announced two to three months in advance. There has been only one exception, and that was the one in 2018 at the 19th Party Congress, when they decided to move up the third plenary session from the fall to early spring, because they were discussing a constitutional amendment. So, the third plenary session has never been missed or delayed since 1978. We're now in December, and still haven't heard a word about when the session will be held. So, this has led to many speculations that something is terribly wrong within the power circles of Beijing as a result of the political struggles and Xi Jinping's political purging. So, what's going on? In the past few months, we've witnessed many unusual things. Like I said, the expelled defense minister and the lack of a replacement for him, the rocket force being plagued with spy allegations and disloyalty or loyalty crisis. It's suggested that he may have died in late July in a military hospital in Beijing due to either suicide or torture, as mentioned in a December 6th political report. A few days ago, the Japanese English media Nikkei Asia also had a piece that provided more details on how Putin's tip has led to Xi Jinping's purging of Qinggang. Now, prior to Politico's report, various claims that Qinggang had died while in detention appeared in Chinese language social media. Some claimed that he was ordered to die by the top leader. It was through death by injection. I said last Saturday in my live stream that we should wait and see if Beijing came out to dispel the rumors. When Deputy Minister of State Security Dong Jingwei was rumored to have defected to the United States, the CCP immediately released his information to discredit the claim. When rumors that Xi Jinping's mother died last December, the Guangdong government released a list of retired CCP elders whom the leaders visited during the holidays, and Xi Jinping's mother's name was on the list. This indirectly dispelled the rumor that his mother had died. So, it has been more than 10 days since Politico's report came out. So far, Beijing hasn't said anything to discredit the claim of Qinggang's death. I interpreted this silence as evidence that Qinggang is more than likely gone. But there are still many questions surrounding Qinggang's death. The biggest one is how could Qinggang, who had been handpicked by Xi Jinping and promoted on a fast track, and who displayed undivided loyalty to Xi, turn against the leader? What's his motivation? What crime did he commit? We'll get to that in a little while. Let's talk about the fifth event. The next and the fifth event is new to you because I haven't mentioned it before. It involves Xi Jinping's current chief bodyguard, Major General Zhou Hongxu. The man sitting on the far left is his previous chief bodyguard, Wang Shaojun, the man who died in April. And next to him is his current chief bodyguard, Zhou Hongxu. So, here are the two men in charge of Xi Jinping's security. So, Major General Zhou Hongxu, who heads the Central Security Bureau now, he was promoted in July 2021. Before he was promoted into that position, he was the deputy chief of staff of the army in the Northern Theater. He went on to become the chief of Central Security Bureau to fill the vacancy that Lieutenant General Wang Shaojun left behind. And the position had been vacant for a year and a half. So, like his predecessor, Major General Zhou accompanied Xi Jinping to several international trips, including the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia last year, and the APEC summit last month in San Francisco. People spotted him. However, he was not seen in Vietnam last week when Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Hanoi, and people wonder why. It was reported that the security of the hotel where Li Keqiang died was managed or controlled by Zhou's Central Security Bureau. Again, these are quite sensational claims, and they are yet to be confirmed. So, my point of this discussion is, if you look at the above five events, three of them, the absence of the third plenary session of the 20th Party Congress, the death of Li Keqiang, and the death of Wang Shaojun, are factual. The fourth event, the death of Qin Gang, has yet to be denied. And the last one is rumor and speculations. Here's the issue I want to present today. If they're all true, which is still very possible, then it paints a terrible picture of the present state of CCP politics. And it needs to be explained. So now let's hear what our experts say. Let me introduce the expert before I present his views. So, Dr. Wang Juntao is a princeling himself. His father was a PLA senior leader. He is a dissident because he was very active in the pro-democracy movement in China. And he is also a former college friend of the deceased Premier Li Keqiang when they were at the Beijing University. Dr. Wang has a PhD in political science from Columbia University. And he said in a media interview two days ago that securities provided to top leaders like Li Keqiang are carried out meticulously. There's no room of error. So here I'll play you a clip where he described the role people like General Zhou would play in the CCP politics and their relations to Xi Jinping. So I translated his interview and some of you complained that you want to see voiceover because you're not watching the videos, you're listening. So I used AI to add voiceover in the actual clip. So you'll hear AI voice for this interview clip. So let me play that. Let me start from the very beginning. Let's go. But why would Xi Jinping want to eliminate Li Keqiang and Wang Shaojun and possibly Qin Gang? That still doesn't make a lot of sense from a Western perspective. In the next clip, Dr. Wang gave some further explanations. Let me play the next clip. Okay, so let me start from the beginning. Sorry. The second clue is that when Xi Jinping adjusted his governance ideas, he wanted some people to be his scapegoats. So these people became the targets of his purges. The third is that after he has achieved a great deal of power like Mao, and when external enemies have become inconsequential, the CCP will divide and become internally polarized. Okay, so Dr. Wang's three clues might have explained the three death cases. He said Xi Jinping no longer trusts the princelings and the people recommended to him by the princelings. So this is one reason behind the purging, including the former head of security. These people have done too much and know too much. And there are reports that Xi Jinping is removing many subordinates of Li Keqiang, and Li Keqiang is very likely, he may very likely blame the pending economic storm on the deceased premier. And the third point is very important. As Dr. Wang said towards the end of that clip, the conflict between Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping is a perpetual struggle within the party that cannot be resolved. I explained this in my video called Five Hard Lessons the West Should Learn from Dealing with the CCP. I provided the link in the description below, you can check it out. But in that video, I talked about how Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are the yin and yang of the party. They're two sides of the same coin. So their struggle is perpetual. And so it's the same. So the struggle between the ideologically faithful Mao and the pragmatic Deng Xiaoping is being carried on, it has carried on today. And that struggle might have cost the life of the pro-West foreign minister, Xi Jinping, when he ultimately had to face off with the ideologically faithful Xi Jinping. And this is Xi Jinping's inevitable fate. So I just gave you the three possible explanations behind Xi Jinping's internal purging, and behind the possible reasons of these death cases. But the same questions still linger on my mind. I'm still not quite convinced. Why? We're still like, why? I mean, you could purge your enemies, you could lock them up, you could send them away. You could have a political campaign to discuss their mistakes. But why kill them? Right? We're still not convinced. And there is a theory that believes that these cases are not isolated, and they are related. So if the deaths of Xi Jinping's former bodyguard, former premier, former foreign minister are all related, it could only point to one direction, or one direction for our conclusion. That is, some sort of subversive act, some form of coup d'etat against Xi Jinping was likely the cause. And the situation is very similar to the 1971 Lin Biao incident, which was a failed coup attempt. And we're working on that. We're working on writing an essay to show you the similarity between what has happened in the last couple of months to the failed coup attempt in 1971. Because we cannot, no matter how we look at the death cases, we cannot ignore the fact that there's a possibility that they were all involved in one event, in which it's a subversive attempt. It's a coup attempt against Xi. But I won't say too much about that until it comes out. I would encourage you to subscribe to my email list, because I will deliver that in the form of an essay rather than a video. This may be a new format that I will use to interact with my subscribers, because I have come across so much information and content, and it's very time consuming for me to turn them into all videos. And so I may just turn them into essays and articles and share them with you through emails. So please subscribe to my email list, and it's coming. So okay, so that's all for today. And let me see if people have any questions. All right, so I see the first question is from Albert Franklin. Have you heard anything about the bio lab found in California? The CDC also discovered Ebola, but nothing was tested. I have seen the Epoch Times has done an extensive reporting on that story. I've seen reporting in English being done in English here. So that's what I have not tried to, you know, spend as much time. It's pretty in depth, and it looks quite outrageous, what they discovered. And the US government should stay on top of that. If not, it's a tremendous public health hazard. So that's that. Okay. Oh, here's a question from Agent Otaku. Why is the Vietnamese Communist Party not as bloody as the CCP? And can she win the power struggle in the next one year? Why is the Vietnamese Communist Party not as bloody as the CCP? There's no detail provided, but the man died. He was only 55 years old. He is a pioneer in AI. His company, Shangtang Keji, is one of the companies being sanctioned by the US government for its face recognition technology. His company is able to recognize the person with the mask on, so they can tell who you are, even though you wear a mask, a facial mask. So, yeah, so his death is, what can we say? It's very, very suspicious. That's all I know about his death. And there are some regions that are reporting the funeral parlors are backing up again. There's a wait time for their deceased family members to be cremated. So, that seems to be apparent. So, this indicates there's a high incidence of casualties in China as a result of the outbreak. So, this sudden death of people, including this Tang Xiaoou, this AI genius, AI premier, may also be attributable to COVID. So, it's possible. It may not be suicide or other unnatural causes, but it could be COVID related. So, be aware. From Michael J., COVID was a way to depopulate and further exert controls. Okay. So, the funeral parlors are having longer lines again. I wonder why. It must be because everything is healthy and going well. That's a rhetorical question. So, the second tier hospitals, the average wait time is three days. So, Chinese hospitals don't take appointments. Basically, when you're sick, you go to the hospital and you see a doctor. They don't make appointments. They just go there. And it could be even longer now. That just shows you the progression, the progression of the wait time within two weeks. So, I'm not surprised if the wait time, if the funeral parlors have a wait time now. And the situation can get even worse. All right. So, that's all for today. And enjoy your Sunday. And I certainly will. I'll see you next week. Bye-bye.