Chinese Communist Party Leadership Coup?

[Michael K.]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... lenews_wsj

China's Coup Jitters
Chinese citizens understand their government is not as stable as it claims.
Wall Street Journal
Updated March 21, 2012, 7:11 p.m. ET

Rumors of a coup in Beijing ricocheted around the Chinese Internet on Tuesday and even caused the cost of credit default swaps on Chinese debt to rise slightly. That's remarkable considering there wasn't one iota of evidence that shots were fired at the Diaoyutai State Guest House or tanks were taking to the streets, as viral microblog posts had it.

But then consider that a month ago, Wang Lijun, an official of vice ministerial rank, sought asylum in the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. Last week, his boss Bo Xilai, the popular party secretary of Chongqing, was dismissed from his post six months before a national leadership transition. In these strange days, it's easy to see why Chinese citizens may believe reports of a coup.

China is supposed to have "institutionalized" its leadership transitions so that such an upheaval could never happen. The outgoing Politburo Standing Committee hands over power to the anointed party general secretary and premier and picks the rest of the new Politburo. The Standing Committee also selects the two slightly younger men who will take over the top jobs 10 years down the road.

But is this arrangement really so stable? Power is now shared on an alternating basis by the Shanghai or "princeling" faction (former Party Secretary Jiang Zemin and the presumptive next one, Xi Jinping) and the Communist Youth League faction (current Party Secretary Hu Jintao). This sets up a dynamic of the current ruling faction sharing power with its presumptive successors in the other faction, a delicate balance to maintain over time.

And because paramount leader Deng Xiaoping picked Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, this year will mark the first transition not determined by the revolutionary generation. In 2002, Jiang Zemin tried to prolong his hold on power and pack the new Politburo with his proteges. No doubt Hu Jintao is trying to do the same.

The party has been able to keep internal strife under control by avoiding ideological struggle over the last 20 years. The factions have competed for important posts and the spoils of power, but they ruled by consensus. The public was simply told to believe in the myth of a monolithic party and ignore the men squabbling behind the curtain.

This technocratic pragmatism may now be breaking down. For instance, Bo Xilai appealed to leftists' disgust with bourgeois individualism and public unhappiness with income inequality, a tactic that alarmed some leaders. Since his dismissal, leftist websites and commentators have also been silenced.

But there are plenty of other voices on the "right" advocating liberal political reform. Ten years ago, the prospect of achieving middle-class incomes made most intellectuals unwilling to rock the boat. Now they feel secure enough to demand more rights. The party sees this as evidence of Western infiltration, and it is tightening control over the media and launching new campaigns to promote the spirit of self-sacrifice.

This return of ideology could make it difficult for the party to apportion power neatly between the factions. This time, Bo Xilai was replaced by Zhang Dejiang, a more moderate member of the same faction. But if the factions come to stand for policy platforms, they will naturally start to play for keeps. Instead of rotating through positions as they currently do, politicians and their proteges will develop personal strongholds, especially in the military. From there it's a short hop to a real coup attempt like the one Mao's designated successor Lin Biao was supposedly plotting in 1971, before he died in a mysterious plane crash.

The Western commentariat likes to praise Chinese leaders as more intelligent and decisive than those chosen by democratic elections. Sometimes that may be true. But when was the last time rumors of a coup in Washington or London moved markets? The endless chanting of the "protect stability" mantra by Communist Party functionaries is a reminder that the regime is constantly on guard against attempts by its own members to usurp power.

When you get right down to it, what are China's leadership transitions if not palace coups on a regular schedule? That's not a stable institution. It's an invitation, sooner or later, for tanks in the streets.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-n ... 07993.html

Coup in Beijing, Says Chinese Internet Rumor Mill
Epoch Times Staff Created: March 20, 2012 Last Updated: March 22, 2012

Over the night of March 19 and early morning of March 20, Bejing local time, a message about a large number of military police showing up in Beijing spread widely across microblogs in mainland China.

UPDATE 4: Zhou Yongkang Lost Power Struggle, Say Chinese Netizens (Mar. 22)

The key figures in the action are said to be: Hu Jintao, the head of the CCP; Wen Jiabao, the premier; Zhou Yongkang, who has control of the People's Republic of China's police forces; and Bo Xilai, who was dismissed from his post as head of the Chongqing City Communist Party on March 15 by Wen Jiabao, after a scandal involving Bo's former police chief.

UPDATE 3: Bo Xilai Fired, Epoch Times Website Unblocked Behind GFW
UPDATE 2: Bo Xilai Placed Under House Arrest, Reports Suggest

Li Delin, who is on the editorial board of Securities Market Weekly and lives in Dongcheng District of Beijing, wrote on his microblog a report that confirmed unusual troop movements: "There are numerous army vehicles, Changan Street is continuously being controlled. There are many plainclothes police in every intersection, and some intersections even had iron fences set up."

Chinese Regime in Crisis

According to the message that went viral on China's Internet, a military force with unknown designation quickly occupied many important places in Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound in Beijing, and Beijing in the early morning of March 20, with the cooperation of Beijing armed police.

The troops entered Beijing to "get and protect Bo Xilai," according to the message.

UPDATE 1: Words Related to 'Coup' in Beijing Censored on Weibo

A mainland Chinese reader has told The Epoch Times that a military coup has taken place in Beijing.

It is still unknown who, if anyone, has been arrested.

The message claims Zhou Yongkang first used armed police force in an attempt to arrest Hu and Wen. However, Hu and Wen had been prepared and Zhou's coup was subdued, though rumors of Hu and Wen being arrested had been spread earlier.

The message says that now both sides, Hu and Wen on one side, and Jiang Zemin and Zhou Yongkang on the other, are mobilizing armed forces. However, only Hu Jintao can mobilize the regular army, which he still controls, according to the message.

The message also claims that forces directed by Zhou Yongkang had taken control over CCTV and the Xinhua News Agency, but that the regular army under the command of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao had since taken back control of the news outlets.

The news column on Xinhua's website was all foreign news from 11 p.m. on March 19 to at least 8 a.m. on March 20, with not a single piece of domestic news—which is quite unusual.

One netizen posted on microblog: "Strange! Except Beijing Television, no other television in Beijing is broadcasting. This is very strange!!! It had never happened before."

However, Beijing state-controlled media have observed that imposing a curfew on Changan Street is quite normal, as the North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho is seeing Wu Dawei, the People's Republic of China's special representative for Korean affairs, and had made a rare advance appointment with media to give a speech outside the east entrance of Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

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Beijing media has also noted that the China Development Forum is closing, with guests from across the country leaving after the forum. For these reasons, Beijing media said there are many police on Changan Street, and taxis are not allowed to stop next to the airport terminal building.

The Epoch Times is at present trying to verify the messages.

UPDATE: Weibo messages on the subject "北京出事了" in the original Chinese are now unable to be searched. This was a major meme around the coup rumor, translating roughly as, "something important yet problematic happened in Beijing."

Weibo appeared down briefly between approximately 12:00 and 12:20 p.m. Beijing local time. Check to see if Weibo is up now.

[Michael K.]

Video from China: Tanks lining the streets, Jews media silent.

Published on Apr 20, 2012 by Wes Skotko

BREAKING NEWS! Clyde was sent these photos of Chinese tanks and vehicles in the streets of Beijing during the "coup". You can see something is definitely happening within the country, however there is little or no reporting from the Main Stream Media about this event.

groundzeromedia.org

[Michael K.]

Related Item?

http://www.debka.com/article/21936/

China steps back from supporting Assad, parts ways with Russia
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 22, 2012, 10:56 PM (GMT+02:00)

Beijing has decided to distance itself from the Assad regime of Syria. Notice of this policy shift came about in a secret exchange of messages with the Obama administration, revealed here exclusively by debkafile's Washington sources. The latest message received in the latter half of last week said: China will no longer be a problem for America in dealing with Assad. That leaves only Russia.

This change of face surfaced at the UN Security Council on Saturday, April 21, when after voting for another 300 observers for Syria, the Chinese delegate Li Baodong made an unusual speech:

"We also call upon the international community to continue its firm support for Mr. Annan's good offices' efforts and consolidate the results achieved, and we strongly oppose any word and act aimed at creating difficulties for Mr. Annan's good offices."

Li went on to say:

"China always maintained that the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria as well as the choice and the will of the Syrian people should be respected."

Western sources stress that, with this speech, the Chinese ambassador stepped aside from Russia's uncompromising backing for the Syrian ruler. Moscow remained the only world power acting to limit the UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's powers and the effectiveness of the UN monitors by denying them proper equipment and authority for overseeing an end to the violence in Syria.

The shift in Chinese policy was noted by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on April 10 when, after visiting Beijing, he remarked: "China is not in the same position as it was before. It is shifting away from full support for Assad's regime."

debkafile's Washington sources believe that the Obama administration can count this change of face as a return on its policy of nuclear appeasement of - and rapprochement with - Tehran.

A senior US official said that what concerns Beijing most is the US oil embargo on Iran and its effect on the Chinese economy. Now that the Chinese see signs of a possible loosening up of sanctions especially in relation to Iranian oil exports in the wake of evolving US-Iranian deals, they are breathing a deep sigh of relief and prepared to be more accommodating to the US in its policy on Syria.

The approaching easing of sanctions against Iranian oil was signaled Saturday, April 21, by an announcement in Tehran that new purchasing contracts for the whole of 2012 had come in from the Asian refineries which were in trade relations with Iran.

Beijing is reported by our sources as having turned down an appeal from the Assad regime to purchase tens of billons of dollars worth of Syrian government bonds to tide it over its economic distress for the duration of the war. Last week, Assad was revealed to be so cash-strapped as to start dipping into the national gold reserves held in the Syrian state bank and selling the precious metal on financial markets in Dubai.

China's defection will not immediately bring Bashar Assad crashing down, but it is a vote of no-confidence by a key world power in his survivability. It leaves Tehran and Moscow as the only props of his regime and may well inspire second thoughts in either or both of his champions.

[Michael K.]

http://whatdoyoubelieve.blog.fc2.com/bl ... y-452.html

PRC NWO

2012-05-01

NEW STATESMAN: PRC "BEGINS" NWO

So now it's official?

The New Statesman:

    "The beginning of a new world order

    "The financial crisis has seen the global economy turned on its head. And it is China rather than America that is set to dominate through both soft and hard power."

    http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/e ... orld-order



In Communocapitalist China, where the average wage is less than $2 a day, the richest 70 members of the National People's Congress "earned" more last year than the COMBINED ASSETS of the entire US Congress, Supreme Court, President, Vice-President and Cabinet.

Yes, the slave-state of Communocapitalist China represents the New World Order very well.

In the PRC last month, the PNC increased the scope of Residential Surveillance provisions in the Criminal Procedure Law, and increased police powers to hold suspects facing subversion and other "State Security Crimes", which are vaguely-defined political charges, or, in general, any opposition to capitalistic Communist Party's power.

Besides dissidents being jailed, Residential Surveillance is used to keep them in hotels, state "guesthouses" and other sites, where they are forbidden to contact family members or lawyers, or to discuss their detention with anybody else.

The detention-powers amendments are classified as state secrets, and are not known to the public, except for when the government informed PNC delegates and reporters that according to part of one of the secret provisions on detention, suspects or defendants "involved in crimes concerning state security, terrorism or especially serious corruption" not meeting the level requiring incarceration, can he held in residential surveillance outside their own homes or at state-run detention centers; and "detainees' families should be notified within 24 hours, except when impossible, or when they are involved in crimes concerning state security or terrorism, and notification could obstruct investigations."

Asking for specifics about amendments on detention provisions is a detainable offense.

And according to the Troofers and other kike and kikish elements, and their shit-for brains camp-followers, this Chi-Com brand of tyranny is the supposed champion of some sort of great "alternative" to the Anglo-Franco-Yankee NWO.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Note anytime a "Debka" article is quoted on TIU that isn't related to research into the J-Tribe/NeoCon Scams involving propaganda around 9/11, Iraq and WMDs -- it will get dumped into Nonsense-Speculation.  

Please post this over at GLP instead of TIU.

Thanks,

--CSR

[Michael K.]

Dear CSR,

I am fully guilty and wrong for using a kike-disinfo source as a reference, since some are going to view this as editorially approved.  Thereby reflecting dishonor on the Information Underground.  I apologize fully and see the error of my ways in that regard.

With that said, I feel an additional obligation to demonstrate proof of the Debka-sourced story itself, since the object here is to prove that there has been at least strong evidence of a coup in China, and this is a big one.

Now, I am going to demonstrate proof that China has changed positions on Syria, and that this is not some kike-inspired internet rumor.

Watch very closely the following live, real UN footage, and note the last few moments, and watch the body language of the China delegate as he speaks:

[youtube:38ft2mgm]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPNu97Fch0[/youtube]38ft2mgm]

He is submissively and reluctantly making his support for the "International" solution evident.  If you have been following the position of China, then you will realize that earlier this year China was on "Russia's" side which meant (NATO)"non-intervention", and here is credible evidence to that effect:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17158889

You will notice the date was Feb 24, 2012 so this is clearly BEFORE the alleged coup time frame.  Now we have credible evidence from the UN dated Apr 27, 2012 that the position has reversed, and China now clearly is conceding initiative to the "International Community"  

Therefore I respectfully argue that you bump this back to the news section, after doing any editing you may deem efficacious such as to avoid discredit.

Thank you.

[Michael K.]

Love that Sugar!

STRATFOR "debunks" China Coup rumor : More proof that it's true!

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