Shocking Revelation of New Politburo Standing Committee List: Wang Yang, Hu Chunhua, and Zhang Youxia Form New Power Core

Composite image: Hu Chunhua and Wang Yang are rumored to become successors.

[People News] Recently, a shocking new list of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee has been circulating internally within the Party. According to reports, the list has been cross-verified by three independent sources, making it more than just a speculative rumour. The list carries identifiable origins, logical coherence, and systematic structure. Most strikingly, current top leader Xi Jinping is absent from the list—an omission widely interpreted as a major signal that Xi's political career has come to an end.

New Politburo Standing Committee: A Three-Man Core Leadership

According to the leaked list, the future Politburo Standing Committee will centre around a new three-man leadership core:

Wang Yang: Returning from retirement to take the post of General Secretary. With his seasoned and steady image, Wang is seen as a representative of peaceful political transition.

Hu Chunhua, A key figure of the Communist Youth League (Tuanpai) faction, will serve as Premier of the State Council. He is widely regarded as the successor most resembling former Premier Li Keqiang in style.

Zhang Youxia: Currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, he will enter the Standing Committee as the military’s representative—“bringing a gun into the Standing Committee,” symbolising military stability and control.

In addition, the four remaining seats on the Standing Committee are said to be filled through competitive selection among the following seven candidates: Ding Xuexiang, Yin Li, Li Shulei, Zhang Guoqing, Chen Jining, Yuan Jiajun, Zhang Qingwei.

Although several individuals on this list are known protégés of Xi Jinping, sources stress that the new leadership team was not selected by Xi. Instead, it was curated by the new central system, which chose to “retain Xi’s shell, but not his soul”—keeping controllable Xi-affiliated personnel to ensure a stable transition and to begin dismantling the legacy of the previous administration.

Triple Political Kill: A Systematic Political Purge

Analysis reveals three layers of political intent behind the new leadership list:

1. Xi’s allies remain, but his influence has vanished: Figures like Ding Xuexiang and Yin Li may have been Xi loyalists, but now serve as internal "liquidators" within the regime.

2. Technocrats rise, factions recede: Candidates such as Zhang Guoqing, Li Shulei, and Zhang Qingwei are low-key, capable administrative technocrats with cross-faction cooperation abilities—ideal for stabilizing the current regime.

3. No dramatic purge—just silent erasure: Xi Jinping’s name has been quietly removed from the power core. There has been no resignation announcement, no charges, no formal denunciation. The regime is effectively deleting Xi’s authority through a silent “power-down” process.

This is not merely a leadership reshuffle, but a systematic formatting of the top leadership—a comprehensive political purge cloaked as a routine transition. The former “top user” has had his mouse unplugged; the interface remains, but no command functions. The system is being rebooted.

Xi Jinping’s Fate: Graceful Exit or “Death by Illness”

As to whether Xi might make a political comeback, observers widely believe it’s unlikely. Internal sources say Xi has only two remaining paths:

Graceful retirement under the pretext of health reasons, transitioning into a silent “elder statesman” mode;

Quiet disappearance, with an eventual low-key obituary citing death from illness.

Either outcome would mark the definitive end of the Xi Jinping era.

U.S.-China Call Exposes Xi as “A Mouthpiece Only”

Coinciding with the leak of the new leadership list, official sources in both China and the U.S. confirmed a phone call between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. According to Chinese state media, the two leaders had “in-depth communication and reached consensus,” and even extended mutual invitations for future visits. However, analysts point out that the entire call, from its process to its language and tone, shows Xi Jinping serving merely as the Party’s diplomatic mouthpiece, reading prewritten lines in a choreographed appearance.

Trump, during a press briefing, casually remarked, “We had a decent conversation and clarified some complicated issues.” This has been interpreted as an indication that Xi still holds residual value in the Party’s diplomatic script but no longer speaks on his own behalf. His words are now entirely shaped by internal handlers.

This meticulously staged phone call reveals that Xi Jinping’s role has been reduced from that of an all-powerful leader to a symbolic figurehead within the high-level political theatre. His real authority has already been completely stripped away. △

(Originally published by People News)