The most likely answer is that Jiang’s group knows they will not be able to escape criminal charges if the “Bloody Hands Faction” loses power. This group’s crimes have violated the most minimal requirements of humanity—the worst of their crimes has been the forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
The book Bloody Harvest, written by a former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgore and Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, estimates that between 2000 and 2005 41,500 organ transplantations were done in China for which the most likely source was detained Falun Gong practitioners. Matas has estimated that of the current 10,000 transplantations now done annually in China, 8,000 are likely done with organs taken from practitioners.
In essence, Jiang’s crusade against Falun Gong was another Great Cultural Revolution. He based his decision purely on the dogma of Leninism and Maoist thoughts. Using violence against Falun Gong would be considered totally logical according to Mao’s revolutionary theories. But killing those deemed political enemies to make huge financial gains was really Jiang’s “advancement with the times.”
In order to justify the persecution of Falun Gong and keep it going, the Party has to keep Mao’s revolutionary theory alive.
Xi’s Reform
So what does all this mean for the upcoming leader, Xi Jinping?
He has to continue the political system that he and his family suffered under during the Great Cultural Revolution. He has to inherit the crimes against humanity committed by this political system, including the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. And for his troubles he will still be targeted by the notoriously violent “Bloody Hands Faction” in a brutal power struggle. They were planning to replace him with Bo anyways.
Xi and his advisers began to realize that his fate, as well as the fate of China, should not just be negotiated between Hu and Jiang. He has to be more proactive in deciding China’s future. If he did not take a stand, he might get run over.
Insider information from Beijing indicates that Xi attempted to resign from the leadership, a move that exposes the internal strife within the Party and as a result jeopardizes the Party’s stability. After making this request, he mysteriously disappeared from public for two weeks.
During this time, he met with Hu Deping, the son of the former Party Chief Hu Yaobang, who was purged by Deng Xiaoping for seeking political reform. Xi told Hu that he wanted more political reform in China and despised Bo’s Mao-era politics. The elder Party leadership then intervened and persuaded him to stay by promising him the power to decide the Party’s future.
