Already 'Toppled' a Large Group, Should the Leadership Continue

Caption: Rumors from Beijing suggest a move to topple the "New Gang of Four." (People News graphic)

[People News] In 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched an anti-corruption "tiger hunting" campaign. The number of fallen CCP officials was astonishing—searching online yields plenty of examples. The severity of CCP corruption surfaced, waking up many who were previously confused; perhaps this is also fate. According to statistics, by the end of 2022, over 4.7 million CCP officials were under investigation, and 553 high-level officials of vice-provincial rank or above were prosecuted. Now, in 2024, the actual numbers have already risen to new heights. This distinctive feature of the CCP has directly set a world record.

Some say that the CCP’s anti-corruption campaign is a manifestation of internal strife. Others say that now the Chinese economy is failing, and the CCP is out of money, so cracking down on corrupt officials is a way to get money. Still, others believe that this is retribution for their wrongdoing. However, many people applaud this, genuinely believing that the Party can be hopeful, even fantasizing that someone will supervise the discipline inspection commissions, only to fall for the CCP's trick once again.

From reports, although corrupt officials occupy different fields and positions, the nature of their crimes is very similar: using power for personal gain, embezzlement and bribery, massive accumulation of wealth, and power-money-sex transactions. The official reasons summarizing the crimes are shockingly consistent: loss of ideals and beliefs, betrayal of original mission, ignoring the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations, and serious violations of the Party's political, integrity, organizational, and lifestyle disciplines.

A few, dozens of party cadres having problems could be considered isolated incidents. However, when thousands, even millions, exhibit the same problems, calling it a personal issue would not fool even a young child. Everyone knows that the CCP itself is the root cause of these problems. The so-called discipline and regulations of the CCP are mere paper documents that even the Party does not follow, so how can its members be expected to? Corrupt officials are simply following the CCP’s teachings by example.

The people have never seen the CCP examine its own faults; instead, they see it appearing in the guise of a judge, transforming from the creator of corruption to the punisher, emphasizing that it is due to individuals violating party discipline. By prosecuting and removing criminal party members, the CCP executes a cunning maneuver of shedding its skin like a golden cicada, sacrificing a few to save the regime, protecting itself while winning public sympathy. Some have summarized CCP’s official propaganda movies: those at fault are always deputies, while those in charge are depicted as embodiments of justice, solving problems, correcting direction, and winning people’s hearts. No matter how severe the wrongdoing, the CCP can exploit it to beautify itself, reaching a shameless peak.

The Party remains the same, lawless, and unchanged in essence. The CCP does not allow public supervision, media supervision, or international supervision. Its anti-corruption and tiger-hunting campaigns seem to tell the world: the CCP can correct its own mistakes, fostering endless illusions about it. The constant reiteration in CCP meetings of "strengthening Party leadership, strengthening Party leadership" is precisely what has created so many "flies and tigers." Continuing Party leadership means continuing to produce the next batch, and the one after that, of "flies and tigers."

However, CCP leadership is not limited to just toppling batches of Party and government officials. The CCP says: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth," though this is distorted logic, the social reality under CCP rule is the most effective test of the Party.

Without going too far back, just in the past few decades, due to CCP leadership, reform and opening up were implemented. Deng Xiaoping said: "It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat," "focus on economic construction," "allow some people to get rich first." Jiang Zemin said: "Make a fortune quietly." Decades later, Party officials collectively became corrupt and immensely wealthy; state assets turned into their private wealth, the national treasury was emptied, and the wealth gap widened. Party officials, Red Second Generations, and Red Third Generations became wealthy first, while ordinary citizens had no chance to catch up. They struggle under the burden of healthcare, housing, education, and elderly care. Party officials from top to bottom unscrupulously seek profit, driving social morality downwards, corrupting hearts, and fostering a society where vice flourishes. People eat rice and white flour but also toxic substances like poisonous oil and tainted milk powder.

Because of CCP leadership, the Wuhan Institute of Virology developed a virus that was deadly rather than curative. Who did they originally intend to use it on? When the virus leaked, the CCP covered it up, punished truth-tellers, framed and persecuted them, and allowed the virus to spread globally. When the virus had spread significantly and the pandemic was out of control, the CCP imposed harsh lockdowns—not stopping the virus but trapping the people, which directly pushed the national economy to the brink of collapse. Hundreds of millions died unnatural deaths; those who survived were hit with mandatory vaccinations that made life unbearable.

Because of CCP leadership, during every summer flood season, dams and waterworks built for profit and prestige repeatedly broke or released floods without warning. Homes, farmlands, and property were submerged; tens of thousands of people lost their lives, and such tragedies continue. The whole nation is heartbroken, but the Party leaders remain indifferent.

Due to CCP leadership, disappearances in China are frequent, and dark truths about the trafficking of women and children and forced organ harvesting are exposed repeatedly without any official investigation to find the culprits and bring them to justice. Surveillance cameras blanket China's streets and alleys, making it easy to monitor and arrest dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners, yet they fail in these cases.

Because of CCP leadership, live organ harvesting was normalized and legalized, carried out nationwide, targeting everyone from Falun Gong practitioners to ordinary citizens, even children. After exploiting people’s blood and sweat, the CCP would cut open their bodies and remove their organs. The Party’s "leadership" truly infiltrated people's very bodies. Chinese people are not just living in hardship; they are in a den of wolves and tigers.

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At the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, the CCP reiterated the old rhetoric of "strengthening Party leadership." To this day, many are contemplating a question: should the unfortunate Chinese people continue to want such leadership?

If a certain model of phone explodes once or twice, people would think it’s an accident or misuse. If it explodes thousands of times, that model, or even the brand, would be discontinued and eliminated. Applying the same logic to the CCP, we understand where the CCP should go.