As the upcoming Third Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) approaches, authorities continue to crack down on officials, with several individuals falling from grace in quick succession. On June 17 alone, three officials were expelled from the party and dismissed from their positions. Political analysts point out that the CCP always takes action before important meetings, using it as a means to carry out internal purges, showcasing the CCP’s enduring nature as a mafia-like organization.
On June 17, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission website announced the expulsion of three senior officials, including Li Pengxin, former Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region CCP Committee, Wang Yixin, former Deputy Governor of Heilongjiang Province, and Chen Yuxiang, former Deputy Secretary of the Hebei Province Discipline Inspection Commission and former Deputy Director of the Provincial Supervisory Commission.
Authorities accused Li Pengxin of “cultivating personal influence,” being “disloyal and dishonest” to the CCP, engaging in graft, greed, collusion between politics and business, and various corrupt practices.
Wang Yixin was accused of associating with political swindlers, obstructing organizational inspections, hiding his family’s property holdings, and being involved in questionable transactions involving power and money.
Regarding Chen Yuxiang, the CCP alleged that he indulged in extravagance, frequently accepting banquets, participating in activities like tourism and fitness in violation of regulations, interfering in judicial and law enforcement activities, being complicit in corrupt practices involving the exchange of power and money.
On June 16, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced the investigation of Wu Yingjie, former Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region CCP Committee, who had stepped down less than three years prior. Before his downfall, Wu Yingjie had retired from frontline positions and served as a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Culture, History, and Study Committee.
Wu Yingjie’s last public appearance before his downfall was on June 7, accompanying CCP Political Bureau Standing Committee member Wang Huning in meeting with the visiting Foreign Minister of Venezuela. Wu Yingjie’s ousting brought the total number of senior officials who have been investigated since the 18th National Congress of the CCP to 12. Since the 18th National Congress, six senior officials from Tibet have fallen from grace, with Wu Yingjie being the only one at the provincial level.
On June 17, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission’s Legislation Office announced key revisions to the CCP’s “Disciplinary Measures Regulations on Political Disciplinary Punishments.”
The article emphasized the need to “firmly uphold the authority of the Central Party Committee and ensure the smooth flow of the Party’s central directives,” stressing that officials must not show any ambiguity or wavering on this point. It also stated that “forming cliques and factions” is not allowed and called for strict prevention in this regard.
On the same day, CCP’s mouthpiece media, CCTV Network, compiled a summary of Xi Jinping’s recent warnings to party members and officials, highlighting Xi Jinping’s admonition against crossing the so-called “disciplinary line” within the CCP.
Analysts suggest that according to the CCP’s governing habits, leaders always use official media to discipline party members and officials before crucial moments, as was evident in CCTV Network’s article.
The CCP’s 20th Third Plenary Session, originally scheduled for last fall but uncommonly postponed to July of this year, is widely believed to be due to significant internal disputes within the CCP that Xi Jinping has yet to resolve.
On June 19, Li Yuanhua, a former professor at Capital Normal University, expressed to journalists from Epoch Times that the CCP always takes action before convening important meetings. The so-called forming of “cliques and factions” is actually about officials choosing the wrong side and affiliating with the wrong people. In the CCP’s bureaucratic system, officials cannot advance without affiliations. Competition, mutual exploitation, and entrapment with collected materials to frame each other are common practices in the CCP’s bureaucratic system; once officials ally with the wrong group, they will be targeted by another group.
Political analyst Lan Shu, residing in the United States, told Epoch Times journalists that Xi Jinping is using the CCP’s organizational discipline to purge dissenting voices within the party. He analyzed that Xi Jinping’s ruling method mirrors Stalinist practices, where dissenters within the CCP are purged using party discipline. However, this purge has not yet reached the level of power struggle because power struggles require certain capabilities, and currently, there are hardly any factions within the CCP capable of challenging Xi Jinping.
Chinese-Canadian writer Sheng Xue, residing in Canada, informed Epoch Times journalists that at critical junctures, CCP leaders always use so-called party disciplinary regulations as a means to carry out internal purges. Over the course of CCP history, it has been a continuous process of internal disintegration, fierce internal struggles, and fight-to-the-death battles, with its mafia-like nature remaining unchanged.
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