Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University and a renowned dissident living in exile in Australia, has said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been facing his gravest political crisis since he came to power.
Mr. Yuan says a political consensus has been formed among Party princelings, who plan to overthrow Xi Jinping and establish a new political party.
Princelings, also known as the second red generation, are children of the most powerful and influential Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who were considered founders of communist China.
This time, led by Liu Yuan, the son of former Chinese chairman Liu Shaoqi, a large group of princelings are taking concrete actions against Mr. Xi, claims Mr. Yuan.
The former law professor said he obtained detailed information from connections inside China who he said are within the top CCP circle, which he disclosed in his recent commentary article titled “How the CCP’s Severe Political Crisis Affects the Situation in Taiwan.”
According to Mr. Yuan, these princelings reached the following consensus:
First, Mr. Xi’s 10-year rule has completely abandoned and deviated from the CCP’s reform and opening-up path and retrogressed to the political ideology and economic path of the Cultural Revolution. As a result, every aspect, including politics, economy, society, and diplomacy, is deeply mired in crisis. These crises have reached such a serious level that they have shaken the rule of the CCP. Worst of all, they say, Mr. Xi is pushing the country into a wartime framework in preparation for conflict with Taiwan. If left unchecked, China will face an unprecedented risk of war.
Second, they claim that Mr. Xi has overhauled the CCP’s “democratic centralism,” i.e., collective leadership and collective decision, and is practicing personal dictatorship. Over the past decade, China’s economy has been deteriorating rapidly and irreversibly, people’s livelihoods are in dire straits, the country’s finances are on the verge of bankruptcy, public grievances are on the rise, and the mindsets of officials are in a state of turmoil. A full-blown social crisis is on the verge of eruption.
With regard to international diplomacy, they say Mr.Xi abandoned Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of “ keep a low profile and bide your time” and became blindly arrogant. The Xi administration has adopted the so-called wolf-warrior diplomacy, which has positioned China as a common enemy among developed nations.
Third, in view of the above, in order to stop Mr. Xi from leading the country into unprecedented perversions, the princelings will take action to initiate a groundbreaking democratic political reform to deprive Mr. Xi of the power to dominate China’s destiny. The CCP will be transformed into the Social Democratic Party of China, and a democratic socialist parliamentary political system will be implemented in China. At the same time, China will abandon its national policy of threatening Taiwan by force and improve its relations with the United States, Japan, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries.
Mr. Yuan did not reveal when the princelings got together to reach their consensus, but he provided a list of names that, in addition to Liu Yuan, includes Deng Pufang, son of Deng Xiaoping; Hu Deping, son of Hu Yaobang; Chen Yuan, son of Chen Yun; Ma Xiaoli, daughter of Ma Wenrui; and Luo Diandian, daughter of Luo Ruiqing.
It appears the families of the CCP’s “Eight Party Elders” are all involved.
“It is an unprecedented political crisis for Xi Jinping since he ascended to the highest level of power,” Mr. Yuan said.
In addition, the children of CCP military veterans Ye Jianying, He Long, Nie Rongzhen, Xu Xiangqian, Su Yu, Xu Haidong, and Wang Zhen, as well as Bo Yibo’s children except Bo Xilai, are also cosigners of the consensus.
A source also revealed that a group of military generals, whom Mr. Xi regards as his inner circle, have also signed the petition. This is evidenced by Mr. Xi’s purge of the Rocket Force and former Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
Mr. Yuan said in his article that a few years ago, he began to describe Mr. Xi as “the Diminutive and Stupid Version of Mao Zedong,” a term that has now become widespread among the princelings and CCP officials.
In his article, Mr. Yuan said that for many key members of these princelings, their parents and elder siblings were victims of Mao Zedong’s brutal political purge during the Cultural Revolution, and some were even persecuted to death.
“This time, the reason why the princelings, with Liu Yuan at their core, dared to openly report their political reforms to the international community is also based on a basic judgment: if Xi Jinping follows the example of Mao Zedong in carrying out another political persecution against this group of princelings, it will inevitably ignite intense anger within the Party against him, leading to his own self-destruction,” he wrote.
