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[People News] The Chinese Communist Party has been vigorously carrying out an anti-corruption campaign, yet the number of corrupt officials being caught keeps increasing. On December 24, the Chinese Communist Party authorities announced the revocation of Chinese Communist Party National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference membership qualifications for eight senior officials. Among them, Cao Jianguo, Zhang Dongchen, Zeng Yi, and Fan Youshan come from the military-industrial system; Liu Guoyue and Yu Peigen come from the energy system; Ma Zhengwu comes from the logistics system; and the more well-known Wang Xinghuan is a urology specialist who, during the Wuhan virus (Chinese Communist Party virus) epidemic, concurrently served as the director of Leishenshan Hospital.
It is worth noting that before their Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference membership qualifications were revoked, all eight individuals had already been dismissed from their posts and no longer appeared publicly.
In addition, according to reports by China’s state-run China News Service, as of now this year, a total of 62 centrally managed officials in the Chinese Communist Party state have been investigated, including nine ministerial-level officials, higher than the six during the same period last year. In 2023, 45 centrally managed officials were investigated. This year, in the first three quarters nationwide, 90 provincial- and ministerial-level officials were placed under case investigation, whereas the total number of provincial-level officials investigated throughout all of last year was 73.
These figures show that the number of corrupt officials in the Chinese Communist Party’s officialdom keeps increasing. No matter how loudly the Chinese Communist Party shouts “serve the people,” it is nothing more than a fig leaf, and the common people understand this perfectly well.
In addition, for the nine fallen ministerial-level party officials, the charges given by the Chinese Communist Party include: loss of ideals and convictions and party principles, deviation from the original aspiration and mission, breach of the bottom line of integrity, misuse of public power for private purposes, and large-scale trading of power for money.
The so-called “loss of ideals and convictions and party principles, deviation from the original aspiration and mission” in fact means that, in the Chinese Communist Party officialdom, basically no one believes in the so-called communist ideals and convictions. This includes even the deceased former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, who as early as March 2002 told a reporter from The Washington Post: “When I was young, I once believed that communism would arrive soon, but I no longer believe that now.”
No one in the entire Chinese Communist Party officialdom believes in communism, yet they are maintaining the rule of the Communist Party government. The purpose is to use the Chinese Communist Party’s dictatorial and authoritarian system to seek personal利益 and hollow out the national treasury. This is also one of the biggest reasons why Chinese Communist Party corrupt officials can never be fully caught.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party on the one hand allows officials to engage in corruption, and then on the other hand confiscates the corrupt officials’ money in the name of anti-corruption. The Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is, in fact, nothing more than a game of “black eats black” played among party officials.
Wang Youqun, PhD, a former speechwriter for Yin Jianxing, former member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, analyzed that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign over twelve years has led to more and more corruption, possibly for five reasons:
1. It is not genuine anti-corruption
Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption is not genuine anti-corruption, but rather uses anti-corruption as a tool for power struggles, that is, using anti-corruption to purge political enemies.
2. Catching thieves but not the kingpin
The second reason Xi Jinping’s campaign results in more corruption is that, in order to protect the party, he “catches thieves but not the kingpin.” Among the more than 530 senior party, government, and military officials investigated during Xi’s first and second terms, most were figures from the factions of former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and former state vice chairman Zeng Qinghong. However, Xi ultimately did not arrest Jiang and Zeng, nor did he settle accounts for their serious corruption problems.
3. The party leads everything
The third reason is that Xi Jinping has continuously strengthened the idea that “the party leads everything,” resulting in increasingly serious corruption.
4. The one-party dictatorship system remains unchanged
The fourth reason is that although Xi Jinping carries out anti-corruption, he has not touched the Chinese Communist Party system that causes corruption to continuously breed and spread. The Chinese Communist Party is a one-party dictatorship system: the party controls legislation, law enforcement, and the judiciary; the party controls decision-making, execution, and supervision; and the party controls the public security, procuratorate, courts, and judicial system. Corruption in the Chinese Communist Party is systemic corruption. Without strong supervision, corruption will continuously breed and spread.
5. Continuing the persecution of Falun Gong
The fifth reason Xi Jinping’s campaign results in more corruption is that he continues the persecution of Falun Gong. Former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Gong, which has now lasted nearly 26 years. Over these 26 years, the Chinese Communist Party has vigorously promoted “falsehood, evil, and struggle” throughout China and even worldwide, corrupting morality, corrupting the law, and corrupting people’s hearts. The result is that the cancer of corruption within the Chinese Communist Party has developed malignantly and is beyond cure.
Dr. Wang Youqun believes that because Xi Jinping practices selective anti-corruption, none of the high-ranking officials who have been investigated are convinced by him. These senior officials and their families and children, including some of the powerful backers behind them, all want to drive Xi out of office. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party’s systemic corruption will become increasingly severe, until the party perishes. △
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