Chinese paramilitary police stand guard at Tiananmen Square. (China Photos/Getty Images)
[People News] Recently, Dajiyuan obtained information from authoritative sources indicating that although Xi Jinping, the current top leader of the CCP in party, government, and military, appears to still be in power, he has in fact lost his grip. Former CCP elder Wen Jiabao and Zhang Youxia, the First Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, have become key players in shaping China's political situation.
According to sources, Xi began to lose power as early as April last year. Though he tried to strike back several times, even resorting to armed force, all his attempts failed. Now, Xi is merely playing along with the performance, doing whatever he is told, including travelling to Russia. But the upper echelon is currently at a loss as to what to do next. I personally believe that if the persecution of Falun Gong were ended and the group rehabilitated, all of China's problems could be easily resolved.
In fact, external observers have noticed changes at the top since Xi was suddenly hospitalised in July last year, sparking continuous rumours of his fall from power. It has been reported that, due to Xi’s relentless purging of political enemies, he has alienated nearly every faction within the CCP leadership. His mishandling of domestic and foreign affairs has thrown the regime into deepening economic, social, and political crises. A number of CCP elders and senior military officials, in collaboration with Zhang Youxia, reportedly took decisive measures to dismantle Xi’s control, especially over the military.
Now, with Xi’s top two military confidants—He Weidong (Politburo member and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission) and Miao Hua (Director of the CMC Political Work Department)—under investigation, Xi has lost his main pillars of military support.
The arrests of Miao Hua and He Weidong are not isolated incidents; they implicate a broader network of senior military figures. According to sources close to Zhongnanhai, Miao and He had formed a political clique that posed a "serious threat to the safety and stability of the military."
Who are the members of the "Miao Hua–He Weidong political clique"?
Based on overseas disclosures, the group includes: He Hongjun, Executive Deputy Director of the CMC Political Work Department (General); Wang Renhua, Secretary of the CMC Political and Legal Affairs Committee (General);Wang Houbin, Commander of the Rocket Force (General); Lin Xiangyang, Commander of the Eastern Theatre Command (General); Wang Xiubin, former Commander of the Southern Theater Command (General); Han Weiguo, former Commander of the PLA Ground Force (General);Qin Shutong, former Political Commissar of the Ground Force (General); Yuan Huazhi, Political Commissar of the Navy (General); Wang Chunning, Commander of the People's Armed Police (General); Zhang Hongbing, Political Commissar of the Armed Police (General); Zhao Keshi, inaugural Minister of the CMC Logistic Support Department (General).
With this group being "taken down in one sweep," almost all of Xi’s key military confidants have fallen, leaving him a “commander without troops.”
Military power is Xi’s lifeline. Losing control over the armed forces means Xi has lost his dominance over the CCP's domestic and foreign policy decisions, over key personnel appointments, and over the narrative of being the “core leader,” the ultimate decision-maker, and the one who “points the direction.” In short, Xi has lost his central leadership status and is now politically isolated.
Although Xi is still seen travelling domestically and abroad, he is essentially just an “actor” performing according to a pre-written script.
On April 21 and 23, Ho Ching, wife of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, very unusually shared two articles critical of Xi on Facebook. When sharing the second article, she also posted a photo of Xi wearing a mask, sitting alone in a chair, looking despondent.
Singapore has close ties with the CCP. Both Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong have visited China multiple times. Ho Ching served as CEO of Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state investment firm, for 17 years. Temasek still has large investments in China. Ho’s decision to share two critical pieces about Xi strongly supports the rumours of his downfall.
In fact, history once offered Xi a valuable chance to chart a new path.
During his first term, Xi launched a major anti-corruption campaign to wrest real power from Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong, who still wielded significant influence. This campaign took down 440 senior officials at or above the vice-provincial level, most of whom had been promoted by Jiang and Zeng.
Xi’s anti-corruption drive came close to reaching Jiang and Zeng themselves, but at the critical moment, he chose to compromise instead of arresting them. That fateful decision set him on the wrong path—a misstep that led to many more, culminating in today’s situation.
What was Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong’s greatest crime? It was the persecution of Falun Gong, launched on July 20, 1999, using the entire machinery of the state.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a high-level Buddhist practice based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. It was introduced by Mr. Li Hongzhi in May 1992 in Changchun, northeastern China. Due to its effectiveness in improving health and purifying the mind, it rapidly spread throughout China and to the rest of the world.
Falun Gong emphasises cultivation (xiu) over exercise (lian). Cultivation involves eliminating attachments to fame, profit, sentiment, and lust, striving to be a better person, and ultimately reaching a state of selflessness. Its five sets of exercises include four standing exercises and one seated meditation.
Wherever Falun Gong spreads, it brings physical health, moral renewal, and a return to kindness.
This is why Falun Gong spread rapidly across China and globally, without a penny from the government or any forced promotion—mostly through word of mouth and personal example.
True Falun Gong practitioners universally affirm: Falun Dafa brings immense benefits to the nation and its people, without any harm.
Falun Gong originated in China, has spread worldwide, and has saved countless lives. The rulers of China are among its greatest beneficiaries.
However, Jiang Zemin not only failed to appreciate Falun Gong but grew intensely jealous, seeing it as a competitor for the people's loyalty. He feared that if people believed in Falun Gong instead of the CCP, the regime’s control would be threatened. Thus, driven by jealousy and fear, he decided Falun Gong had to be eradicated.
The persecution of Falun Gong was, in essence, a war against Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, against the Buddha Law, and against millions of people with spiritual faith.
Since ancient times, Chinese traditional culture has revered the idea that "the wheel of the law turns eternally, and the Buddha's teachings are boundless."
Despite employing every despicable and malicious tactic known to history, Jiang and Zeng could not destroy Falun Gong. Today, it is practised in more than 110 countries and regions around the world.
Persecuting the Buddha Law is a grave, boundless crime.
When nothing else worked, Jiang resorted to an unprecedentedly evil tactic to force practitioners to renounce their beliefs: mass organ harvesting from Falun Gong detainees.
Since 2006, when this atrocity was first exposed internationally, countless researchers, scholars, doctors, lawyers, journalists, and organisations like the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong have conducted deep, detailed investigations.
Their conclusion: This is a massive state-sponsored massacre, ordered by Jiang Zemin and carried out jointly by the CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the 610 Office, police, courts, prisons, hospitals, paramilitary police, and the military.
The Jiang–Zeng "blood-debt gang" perpetrated the crime of killing people by harvesting their organs, deemed "a new form of evil on this planet." It is a monstrous, divine-punishing crime that enrages both Heaven and humanity.
Among the 440 senior officials arrested in Xi's anti-corruption campaign were many who participated in the persecution of Falun Gong, including: Zhou Yongkang (former Politburo Standing Committee member and head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission); Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong (former CMC Vice Chairmen; Bo Xilai (former Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary; Li Dongsheng (former Deputy Minister of Public Security and head of the 610 Office). All were promoted by Jiang and Zeng and served as their henchmen in the persecution.
Xi only needed to take one more step—arrest Jiang and Zeng and end the persecution of Falun Gong—and he would have been on the path of righteousness, enjoying success at every turn and leaving a profoundly different legacy in Chinese history.
But one wrong thought caused Xi to miss the greatest opportunity of his life: to follow Heaven's will, win the people's support, accumulate merit, and bless future generations.
As mentioned earlier, Falun Gong upholds Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. So, what has the CCP used to persecute it? Naturally: Falsehood, Evil, and Struggle.
The 26-year persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP has, in fact, been a 26-year campaign of Falsehood, Evil, and Struggle across all of China and the world.
This persecution—one of the most severe and prolonged in modern history—has corroded morality, wrecked the rule of law, and poisoned human hearts from its very foundation.
Why did the great plague of 2020 erupt in Wuhan, China, and sweep across the country? Why was there an extreme, unscientific, and irrational “zero-COVID” policy for three years? Why has Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign over 13 years only led to more corruption? Why has China’s economy entered a situation where the stock market, housing market, foreign exchange market, and bond market are all in decline? Why has the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its largest trading partner, the United States, deteriorated to the worst level in over 40 years since diplomatic ties were established? Why has the CCP’s “wolf warrior diplomacy” caused disgust and resentment around the world? Why have so many of Xi’s major policy decisions been repeatedly wrong? Why are CCP officials in politics, the military, and state-owned enterprises disappearing one after another? Why has China’s most well-known human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, been missing for nearly eight years, with no sign of life or death? Why was Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” policy terminated 27 years ahead of schedule? Why have the mainland Chinese people’s freedoms—freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom from fear, and freedom from want—been stripped away? Why has Taiwan, the island that long ago realised these four great freedoms, been thrown into turmoil?
All of this is the inevitable result of the CCP suppressing “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance” and promoting “falsehood, evil, and struggle.”
Jiang Zemin, during his time in power and later as a behind-the-scenes "supreme leader," persecuted Falun Gong for 13 years. Xi Jinping has maintained that persecution for another 13 years since coming to power, and in recent years, the persecution has even intensified, especially abroad, where it has been exported with increased aggression.
In inheriting all the negative consequences of Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong, Xi has also inherited the responsibility for those actions. This is a burden too heavy for him to bear.
This is Xi’s tragedy. But he cannot blame anyone else—it is the bitter fruit of his own choice.
As for figures like Zhang Youxia and Wen Jiabao, how can they navigate out of the massive economic, social, and political crisis brought about by Xi's insistence on continuing the persecution of Falun Gong?
The ancients said, “The great path is the simplest.”
Immediately ending the CCP’s 26-year-long persecution of Falun Gong; ceasing hostility toward “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance”; ceasing opposition to the Buddha Law; ceasing the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who believe in these principles; and aligning with natural law, the will of the people, and universal values—these steps would resolve all current crises.
Throughout the 26 years of persecution, no matter how severe it has been, Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi has always taught his disciples to save people with the greatest compassion, including those who once persecuted them.
Because of this, whether in mainland China, Taiwan, the U.S., Vietnam, India, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Sweden, New Zealand, or many other countries and regions, people—despite knowing the CCP is still persecuting Falun Gong—have continued to take up the practice, one group after another.
Falun Gong practitioners do not demand much: the freedom to publish and distribute Falun Gong books; the freedom to read and share them; the freedom to practice the exercises in parks; and the freedom to organize events to promote Falun Gong—such as holding conferences, hosting “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” art exhibitions, and group exercise sessions.
Are these requests difficult to meet? Taiwan has done it. The U.S. has done it. India has done it. Israel has done it. All free societies overseas have done it. Can it truly be impossible for China?
The persecution of Falun Gong is an injustice of historic proportions. Over the past 26 years, it has injured and killed countless innocent people, destroyed countless families, consumed enormous national resources—human, financial, and material—and trampled on legal and moral principles. It has brought immense harm to the country and its people.
In reality, the truth about Falun Gong has long since spread throughout China and abroad. People in the mainland have long resented this disastrous persecution, and free societies have consistently voiced condemnation of it. The persecution has severely damaged China’s international reputation. Solving this issue is not only an unstoppable trend of history—it is an urgent necessity.
Because of this persecution, the suffering of the people has gone on too long. The suffering of the nation has gone on too long. These immense crimes and karmic debts must not be allowed to continue. Ending the persecution of Falun Gong, vindicating Falun Gong, and fully redressing this injustice would allow those in power to win public support, stabilise society, and benefit countless future generations. It would also demonstrate a responsible attitude toward the country and its people.
Of course, those evildoers who have lost all conscience and brutally persecuted Falun Gong fear being held accountable. But can any person, organisation, political party, or government with even a shred of conscience, morality, justice, or humanity turn a blind eye to a crime as appalling as live organ harvesting?
The Chinese nation is inherently industrious, kind, and rich in cultural heritage. If it can immediately stop the persecution of Falun Gong and allow the Chinese people to freely believe in “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance,” then hundreds of millions of Falun Gong practitioners will become a powerful force for social stability and development. More Chinese people will benefit from the blessings of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance,” and Chinese society will move toward prosperity, peace, and lasting stability.
(Translated from Dajiyuan)
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