Behind the scenes of Jiangxi county party secretary Mao Qi, there are 5 hidden tigers.

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Today, we want to take stock of the five big tigers behind the incident of Mao Qi, the secretary of the Wan Nian County Committee in Jiangxi Province, who was reported. Behind his meteoric rise through the ranks, how many high-ranking officials have patronized him? There are even connections to the central government! Who are they? After Li Peixia’s father, a village party secretary, reported his real name, Mao Qi “voluntarily confessed,” and there are officials protecting him behind the scenes.

The condemnation of the female councilor who criticized Taipei Mayor Jiang Wan’an has sparked a fire, contrasting the harsh existence of officials in Taiwan with the resistance to governing by law in mainland China. The fiery incident of a Tsinghua graduate reporting a bureau chief reveals the true lessons that need to be learned.

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The incident of Mao Qi, the secretary of the Wan Nian County Committee in Jiangxi Province, has set the Chinese internet ablaze, and as netizens dig deeper, more issues come to light.

On July 25, Li Peixia’s father reported from a remote location in Guangdong Province accusing Mao Qi of long-term sexual assault of his daughter. On the evening of July 26, Xinhua Net reposted a notice from the Jiangxi Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and the Supervision Commission claiming that Mao Qi is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and he took the initiative to confess to the organization. On July 29, Li Peixia’s father’s account was shut down. This incident is now known as the “Peiqi Event.”

The event left many mysteries and sparked a series of revelations by netizens:

First, from the three recordings exposed by Li’s father, it appears that Li Peixia wanted to be promoted to a deputy department level official, while Mao Qi was involved in illicit affairs, engaging in a mutually beneficial relationship. However, why did things end in disaster? On May 23 of this year, Li Peixia argued with Mao Qi, threatening to report him to the provincial disciplinary committee and claimed to have audio evidence. Three days later, Li Peixia was taken away by the county disciplinary committee. Following this, her father reported the incident.

Normally, if the deal fell through, Li Peixia would report it and ruin her own reputation. So what would make her so angry? Netizens discovered that during the annual meeting of the county political consultative conference, five women were promoted to deputy county level officials. It seems that Mao’s involvement in illicit affairs at the expense of work ultimately led to his downfall.

The second point of doubt relates to the eight recordings, why were only three released? It is highly likely that the remaining five recordings involve individuals connected to Mao Qi, forcing these people to come out and defend Li Peixia.

However, regardless of the circumstances, based on Li’s father’s report, it’s shocking that a village committee secretary overseeing thousands of people has degraded himself to become a “sex slave” to his superiors without the ability to legally report or resist. The unrestricted power of the Chinese Communist Party and the low cost of committing power crimes has reached an extreme level of decay.

The third point of doubt concerns Mao Qi’s miraculous rapid promotion: deputy section chief at 25, section chief at 29, deputy department head at 32, department head at 35, and becoming the county mayor at 38, then the county committee secretary at 39, a position he has held for four years. Who promoted him?

One explanation is that Mao Qi’s father was Mao Huizhong, the director and party secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture, and as some people in Shangrao City say, “Everyone in Shangrao knows, only money will not get you there, right?”

Another explanation by media personnel Chu Chaoxin suggests that Mao Qi’s father has passed away, and that his father-in-law is a county level official, with the real benefactors being an individual surnamed Zhang and Dong, two provincial-level officials.

Research shows that the individual mentioned as Dong may currently be a province-level official in the central region. Dong previously served as mayor of Shangrao City, working in the Jiangxi officialdom for many years before being promoted to a province-level official of great influence.

Meanwhile, the person who Chu Chaoxin claims had a greater influence on Mao Qi, Zhang, previously served as a member of the Standing Committee and deputy mayor of Shangrao City in Jiangxi Province, later serving as deputy provincial governor and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Jiangxi Province. He later transferred to Chongqing as a member of the municipal party committee and Party Working Committee Secretary of the Liangjiang New Area. He passed away in 2023 due to illness.

This explanation seems plausible, but I only believe half of it. The doubts lie in Mao Qi’s resume:

Mao Qi entered university at the age of 17, joined the party a year later, a career trajectory from working in townships to the county committee office, then to the city government office, which would be difficult for an average person to achieve. He then served directly under major officials for nearly six years in various capacities in the Shangrao city government office and meeting office, before attaining the rank of deputy department level official at 35 and becoming the county committee secretary at 39. This level of progression would not be achievable for an average person with a county official as a father-in-law. Unless his path into the officialdom was paved by someone right from the start! And clearly, only his biological father could have gone to such lengths. Therefore, I believe there’s a higher possibility that Mao Qi’s father was a high-ranking official himself.

However, Mao Huizhong retired many years ago, so there must have been other players behind Mao Qi’s promotion in the latter part of his career. Who could they be? Let’s continue delving into this.

In 2014, at the age of 32, Mao Qi became a member of the Wan Nian County Committee. During this period, it’s peculiar that he was always attached to an official from Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, which in the Communist Party landscape is a clear sign of having someone powerful backing you. From February 2015 to August 2016, he served as the head of the talent working group office of the Shangrao City Committee, followed by four months as a member of the Wuyuan County Committee and deputy county governor of Jiangxi Province. From December 2017 to January 2020, he continued his advancement, taking on roles like the secretary of the Shangrao City Communist Youth League’s party group, and the party branch secretary. Note that between November 2018 and October 2019, he was seconded to the human resources department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Under the Communist Party system, a county committee secretary is a provincially managed official, but in 2018, he was still a city-level official in Shangrao. Suddenly, he was given a hat from a central ministry: researcher in the human resources department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Even if his father-in-law or the two provincial-level officials had connections, it seems improbable that they alone could have achieved this for him. Therefore, the only answer is that he had someone supporting him at the central level. Who could this official be?

The fourth point of doubt in the Mao Qi case concerns the disciplinary committee. However, I’m not saying that the county disciplinary committee was tasked with investigating Li Peixia, as this isn’t uncommon in the Communist Party landscape. For instance, Xi Jinping gained power through Wang Qishan’s anti-corruption efforts. Previous Communist Party leaders like Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao followed a similar pattern, with the disciplinary committee essentially acting as the secretary’s enforcer, an open secret.

What I want to point out is the large problem on July 26, according to the Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Mao Qi was found to be suspected of severe violations and voluntarily confessed and accepted an investigation. Many netizens believe that the provincial committee’s intervention is a good thing to punish this corrupt official, but if you delve deeper, there are significant issues!

What will Mao Qi tell the discipline committee? Will he honestly admit to corruption, moral decay, involvement in illicit affairs, and the exchange of power and money for sex? This seems unlikely. My belief is that he will admit to failing to control his desires but will also mention that the county disciplinary committee discovered issues with Li Peixia and he approved the investigation. This way, at most, he’ll be deemed to have a flawed personal life, without committing a crime. He might even end up like Qin Gang, still being considered a “comrade” in the end, relatively unscathed or able to make a comeback once the storm has passed.

Will the provincial commission believe him? I think they will pretend to. Because if Li Peixia wants to report Mao Qi for corruption, bribery, or other charges, it’s highly likely it will implicate higher-ranking officials, so they will naturally want to protect them!

Therefore, before the Shangrao City Disciplinary Commission acts, the Jiangxi Provincial Commission announced an investigation into Mao Qi, ostensibly acting fairly and impartially but actually using it as a diversionary tactic. This kind of sleight of hand in the political arena was quickly recognized by Xinhua News Agency and disseminated for maximum propaganda effect.

In conclusion, the Mao Qi incident involves at least five big tigers: his father, the two provincial-level officials from Jiangxi, the central official who helped him rise in rank, the Jiangxi Commission for Discipline Inspection, and other powerful figures behind the scenes.

This is also why Li Peixia’s father’s account was deleted, she disappeared, and yet the investigation into Li Peixia continued. It’s likely that the CCP will try to confirm Li Peixia’s faults so they can downplay the significance of the events.

The Peiqi incident in Wan Nian County has also shed light on two other individuals. One is Li Qiuping, who was removed from his position as the county head of a certain county in Jiangxi Province in early 2023 for attempting to infiltrate central government agencies and undergo training.

People are revisiting these old stories for two reasons: firstly, if that female official hadn’t been sent to undertake training by the central government, she also would’ve faced the same fate. Secondly, like Mao Qi, Li Qiuping also swiftly rose through the ranks at a young age; people have been questioning: who is Li Qiuping’s father? In just 19 years, he escalated in position nearly every year. Some jest that others have connections, while their own parents only have vague connections. What should they do?

The other person ignited by the Mao Qi incident is Taipei Mayor Jiang Wan’an, along with a bold Taiwanese woman. Let’s take a look at a video clip.

A dignified mayor of Taipei not only faced scrutiny over hidden rules with female officials but also had to endure questions and education on every little matter. It’s no wonder netizens are jesting, “Poor Mayor Jiang! Maybe he should defect to the Communist Party! Look at how happy their officials are!”

Looking back at Jiang Wan’an’s resume, not only compared to Mao Qi and Li Qiuping, but even compared to those “scholars and workers” from central authorities, it’s incomparable.

Jiang Wan’an, born in 1978, after completing high school, pursued dual majors in Diplomacy and Law at National Chengchi University, and later obtained a Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Law from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. In December 2007, he obtained a license to practice law in California, practicing at various law firms in the U.S. He faced layoffs and unemployment during the financial crisis in 2008. In 2011, he co-founded Wanze International Law Firm in San Francisco and set up a branch in Taipei City in March 2014.

In March 2015, at the age of 37, Jiang Wan’an declared his candidacy for the legislature and was elected in May. He was reelected later. This legislator role was garnered through house-to-house visits.

On November 26, 2022, Jiang Wan’an was elected as the Mayor of Taipei at the age of 43, becoming the youngest mayor in the city’s history. This was another case of being elected into the position on a vote-by-vote basis.

As we witnessed in the video, this mayor’s job is not a walk in the park. He is constantly under surveillance by the media and council members. The harder they criticize officials, the more pleased the people of Taiwan are since they don’t have to worry about retaliation or being taken away by the discipline committee.

Can you imagine such circumstances in mainland China?

In fact, forget about female officials, in the past two days, a male graduate from Tsinghua University, using his real name, reported the director of the Business Bureau of a certain industrial park in Suzhou to the Suzhou Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision. The director is accused of rigging tenders, embezzling funds through fictitious projects in government procurement, providing false materials to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and suspected of academic credential fraud.

In reality, more than a year before the report was made, the Tsinghua graduate didn’t just encounter deaf ears but faced repeated retaliation from the director and even a strange car accident. Furthermore, the director deleted the names of Tsinghua students from the list of those recruited in the Suzhou Industrial Park because “Tsinghua students don’t play by the rules.”

In the eyes of Communist Party officials, what does it mean to “play by the rules”? Evidently, they want women to act as sex slaves and male subordinates to be their servants. This makes me admire the Tsinghua graduate, but he should understand that he’s not just reflecting on the problems of one individual, but rather the systemic issues within the Communist Party.

According to the Communist Party, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same language and bloodline, so why is there such a stark difference? The reason is that China is not a country ruled by law; the Communist Party is above the law and the state, the people below don’t have voting rights. Therefore, there are numerous disgraceful and corrupt incidents in the political arena. This is why the Chinese Communist Party is adamant about taking control of Taiwan, to allow our Taiwanese compatriots to “live better lives.”

But, if you had a choice, which kind of life would you prefer?

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