The signs of Xi’s waning influence draw speculations on who will fill the power vacuum in the Chinese regime and if an intense struggle is bound to occur.
Guo Boxiong, the former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, is likely to be purged as his son is at the center of a media smear campaign.
A man who for ten years was one of the top officers in China’s military has been taken away by army officials for secret interrogation, according to Hong Kong’s Apple Daily.
An Insider recently revealed the rampant buying and selling of officer positions in the Chinese military, according to overseas Chinese language media.
Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade, and for another decade he was the puppet master behind the scenes who often controlled events. During those decades Jiang did incalculable damage to China. At this moment when Jiang’s era is about to end, Epoch Times here republishes in serial form “Anything for Power: The Real Story of Jiang Zemin,” first published in English in 2011. The reader can come to understand better the career of this pivotal figure in today’s China.