2024-02-21 21:54:19
On October 22, 2022, former CCP leader Hu Jintao was dragged out of the venue midway through the closing meeting of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, February 22, 2024]On October 22, 2022, at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was carried away from the venue. According to foreign media reports, Hu hindered the CCP leader Xi Jinping’s ambition of “one party and one leader”, which led to the above-mentioned scene that shocked the world.
The British “Financial Times” reported on February 21 that internal strife among the top leadership of the CCP is rarely reflected or hinted at in public. Therefore, in 2022, Beijing’s authoritarian leader Xi Jinping and his predecessor Hu Jintao staged the most “grossing” communist (infighting) drama in front of television cameras around the world.
On the morning of October 22, 2022, at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a very unusual scene occurred. In the middle of the meeting, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Jintao, who was sitting on the rostrum, was forcibly “persuaded” to leave the venue by two staff members. Video showed that Hu Jintao was unwilling to leave, and the two sides remained in a stalemate for regarding half a minute.
The Financial Times said that Xi Jinping used this conference to obtain a third term, which means that he will become the “lifelong leader” of the CCP.
But something was wrong. At the closing ceremony, Hu Jintao reached out and picked up a red folder in front of him. Another CCP official (Li Zhanshu) took the folder away from him. Xi Jinping then signaled to a security guard, who lifted Hu Jintao up and took him away from the auditorium.
As he left, Hu Jintao patted his former protégé and Prime Minister Li Keqiang on the shoulder, but Li only expressed the simplest greeting (a slight sideways nod). When Hu Jintao was kicked out, no one among the senior officials sitting in the front row turned around to show concern. These people looked ahead and turned a blind eye to Hu’s humiliation.
According to reports, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung (transliteration), two highly respected sinologists from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, wrote in a new book “The Political Thought of Xi Jinping” (The Political Thought of Xi Jinping) , provides an analysis of this chilling incident.
The analysis said: “In short, Xi Jinping’s vision is to build a “strong country” united by all people with the party he leads as the core, and realize China’s (Communist Party) ambition of being the “historical” position as the center of the world. ” Therefore, Xi Jinping’s ultimate goal is: “One country, one nation, one ideology, one party, and one leader.”
Anything or anyone who gets in the way – as Hu Jintao did that day – will be dealt with. Tsang and Olivia Zhang said Hu Jintao was prevented from opening the red folder because files inside would reveal that his protégé Hu Chunhua was not promoted to the Politburo. With this move, Xi Jinping is reducing the power base of his predecessor.
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