By The Time You Watch This, Xi Jinping May Already Be DEAD

On the cusp of war, massive purges devastate China's military. Is Xi Jinping himself next? Welcome to China Uncensored. I'm Chris Chapel and it is official. As I've been saying for several months now, several top ranking Chinese generals who disappeared from the public eye have been purged. Look at that. I almost got bingo. You know what this means? It's time for another episode of the people's favorite communist soap opera, General Hostility. Previously on General Hostility. When Xi Jinping came to power, he began a massive purge of his rivals, a political click tied to former Chinese leader Jang Zamin. More than a decade later, Tang is dead and more than 5 million officials have been investigated. But now several top generals hand selected by she himself have been purged. Is she going full Stalin or is someone else behind it? I tell you that show never disappoints. So yes, several top generals have been purged. And by purged, I mean they've been expelled from the party, fired from their positions, and referred to military authorities for prosecution for corruption. When the CCP purges, they really go all out. But it's not just these guys. The total is actually nine officials, including serious highups like General Haye Dong, who was one of two vicechairman of the Central Military Commission or CMC. The chairman of the CMC is naturally Xi Jinping. Now, some of the names on this list aren't a surprise. We've been talking about Hi Dong's pending purge since March, and we've been talking about the downfall of Admiral Meow Hua since last winter. Keep his name in your head because he'll be important later. But it's not who was purged that's the most significant thing. It's the timing. It happened just before the beginning of the fourth plenum. That's a major meeting of the Chinese Communist Party where they map out the next five years of their state planned economy because yes, Communist China is actually communist no matter what some people will tell you. It started on Monday and is wrapping up tomorrow. And what's coming out of it so far is very interesting. I'll get to that in a moment. Of course, who was purged is also pretty significant. These are generals who were hand selected by shei for their positions which is everyone asking why is she turning on his own people. That question is not new. In fact, it's been the nagging question since 2023 when there was a huge corruption scandal in China's rocket force. A lot of the people purged then were supposed to be she's people as well. She even purged the head of the rocket force, replaced him with a guy named Wong Ho Bin, who just got his butt purged, too. Clearly, there are still some issues with the rocket force, which is a shame because they would be such a critical part of an invasion of Taiwan that this really might dampen she's ambition to take it. Sad. Since the purge in 2023, there have been rumors of more purges. This official announcement confirmed a lot of those and I'm fairly confident this won't be the end of it. Now, there are two main explanations for the purges. One is that since all that corruption in China's military was exposed in 2023, she has been working on cleaning up the bad actors, even if they were loyal to him. And this is part of that. After all, if there's one thing she values more than the power of friendship, it's ram military power. She is obsessed with turning China into a worldclass military superpower. In the first few years of his reign, he had to actively purge the military of political rivals and get people loyal to him in place. His life depended on it. Once that was done, he began the work of actually appointing people who were both loyal and capable. But when they started making him look bad or became a threat, out they went. And that's what this is. But here's the other explanation. She himself has been purged. General Jang Yo Shia, the remaining CMC vicechairman backed by party elders, is the one actually calling the shots, and that's why she's allies are being purged. Also, she had a stroke. It's actually the second time this year people have said he suffered a debilitating stroke. One more time and I'll have tic-tac-toe. And actually, this is the third time in three months people have said Jang Yosha will purge Xi. First, it was going to happen at a meeting of top party leaders in August. Didn't happen. Then there were rumors that Jang Yoshia's troops had entered Beijing and there was a shooting war with she's forces. But what it actually was was military personnel moving to Beijing for the massive military parade in September. You know, the one where she was hanging out with his buddies and talking about living to be 150 years old. But seriously, the fourth plenum is totally when it's going to happen. What's that, Shelly? You don't say. Xi Jinping was not purged. We'll get him next time, boys. I mean, the PLA Daily, the official mouthpiece of China's military, published a full page editorial about the purges before the plenum that said the military must unite even more closely around party central with comrade Xi Jinping at the core and always remain loyal to the core, embrace the core, safeguard the core, and defend the core. It never sounded like she was secretly sidelined by rivals. Here's what I think happened. It all ties back to Meowa. Remember when I told you to keep him in your head? He was a member of the Central Military Commission, the CMC. But more importantly, he was the director of the CMC political work department. In other words, Xi Jinping's main propaganda guy for the military. Now, this was something I talked about way back in January on an exclusive episode on my website, chinaunensored.tv. If you're interested in learning about China, you've got to subscribe there. You're really missing out if you don't. You would have been way ahead of the curve when the news about all of these purges broke. And I said on that episode again back in January that she may have feared that Meow was building his own click, a rival political faction. And the thing is, all of these guys tie back to Meow with the exception of this one. All served with Meow in one way or another. And after Meow got promoted up by Shei, the rest followed. My guess with this guy is that he probably got his position on a recommendation from Meow. Now, according to Sino Insider, a risk consultancy that specializes in elite Chinese politics, CCB authorities have been particularly tight-lipped about personnel adjustments in the PLA since Xi Jinping's second term in 2017. But she has been laying the groundwork for this purge for months now. He knew he had to eventually make it public since he'd need to make a new lineup for the CMC at the fourth plenum. And believe me, the purges won't stop with just these nine generals. There are rumors that Meow implicated 1300 other people. Now, I know the lesson of this episode is that you should be careful about rumors, but I think it's safe to say that this could be massive, way bigger than the 2023 rocket force purges. Now, don't get me wrong, this is still really bad for Xi Jinping. This wasn't some triumphant achievement in his effort to root out corruption in the military. Everyone in the military knows that all these guys that got purged were handpicked by she. That means he messed up. And who's going to want to take their place? Getting promoted in the Chinese military is like getting a promotion on Darth Vader's Star Destroyer. You might not have a long career. There is good news though for us, not for she. US military intelligence has long believed China might try to invade Taiwan by 2027. But instability at the top levels of the Chinese military makes that seem less likely, especially if we see ongoing purges. That doesn't mean China's military is crippled. It is still capable of very dangerous acts of aggression or bullying China's neighbors. It's just that a full-scale invasion might be off the table for now. My concern though is that the Trump administration may be buying into this narrative about she losing power. You see, after China announced its recent insane new restrictions on Chinese rare earths, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said this. >> I believe that that the president thinks that this may have been, you know, from a lower level official. The Chinese system is quite brittle. So this may not have come from Xi Jinping himself. This may have come, you know, from a Chinese hardliner. They have hardliners on their their side too who are always trying to undermine the relationship. >> That to me sounds like they still want to work with shei to make some kind of trade deal. And if they think his grip on power is weakening, they may want that all the more. But let me say this so the people in the back can hear. It doesn't matter if Xi Jinping is purged. She is not the problem. The problem is the Chinese Communist Party. In May 1993, President Clinton met with then Chinese leader Jang Zamin. He said, "We are prepared to build a more cooperative relationship with China and wish to work with China as an active member of the international community." A few months later, Jang said, "For the foreseeable future, the United States will remain our primary adversary." This hostility towards the United States didn't start with Shei. It won't end with Shei. It won't end until after the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. Now, there was so much more to this story, a lot of really interesting little details that just weren't suitable for a general YouTube audience. But if you're interested in really going in deep, you've got to subscribe to my premium website, chinaunensored.tv. Just click this button here. You'll get exclusive episodes, live streams, you can chat directly with me and ask questions. Plus, and this is most important, your support is what makes China Uncensored possible. YouTube is still constantly demonetizing us. Every dollar we raise from subscriptions goes to making more great episodes for you. Thank you for watching. Once again, I'm Chris Chapel. See you next time.