In the backdrop of increasingly stringent control by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and omnipresent street surveillance, last week in Chengdu, three giant anti-CCP banners were spotted hanging on a busy overpass. According to insider sources, the police response was unusually delayed, causing a stir among top officials in Beijing and raising suspicions of a high number of “two-faced individuals” within the system. Currently, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of State Security are handling the case, excluding the police system originally responsible.
Legal expert Yuan Hongbing in Australia cited sources within the system, revealing that the banners were only removed nearly three hours after being hung, with the CCP being shocked not by the content of the banners themselves, but by the sluggish response of the overall stability maintenance system.
On April 15th, a photo circulated online showing three large banners with white background and red text hanging from an overpass outside Chengdu’s Cha Dianzi Bus Station, stating: “Without political system reform, there is no national rejuvenation,” “The people do not need a party with unchecked power,” and “China does not need someone to dictate the direction, democracy is the way,” clearly visible under the night lamps.
Yuan Hongbing remarked, “These banners were hung in a bustling area, but within two hours of being displayed, remarkably no one reported them.”
Quoting internal sources, he disclosed that it took a routine patrol officer two hours to notice the banners, who then reported it to superiors. However, rather than ordering immediate removal, the superiors requested to preserve evidence, delaying the removal process for an additional 30-40 minutes, totaling close to three hours.
For years, the CCP has invested heavily in constructing an all-encompassing stability maintenance system, including ubiquitous street surveillance, internet censorship, and police deployment. Yet, the millions of surveillance cameras across the country failed to promptly capture the anomaly, highlighting a systemic paralysis and slow response of stability maintenance forces.
“This demonstrates that the entire CCP stability system is ineffective, even the police’s response is quite strange,” emphasized Yuan Hongbing. He indicated that the top CCP echelons suspect a significant presence of “two-faced individuals” and even a phenomenon of “lying flat and slacking” within the stability system, signaling an “extremely severe” situation.
Reportedly, this incident directly caught Xi Jinping’s attention, and the case is being jointly investigated by the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of State Security’s secret police. The public security department has been completely sidelined, indicating a wavering of confidence in the police system by the CCP leadership.
In October 2022, Peng Zaizhou (real name Peng Lifa) caused a sensation by hanging anti-CCP and anti-Xi banners on the Sìtōng Bridge in Beijing. Peng’s whereabouts remain unknown since his arrest, but he has inspired many Chinese people’s awakening of conscience, leading to various individuals across different regions following suit in hanging protest banners.
The recent banner protest in Chengdu has alarmed the highest levels of the central government, prompting investigations by the “anti-corruption” and “national security” departments. Yuan Hongbing believes that this reflects Xi Jinping’s deep sense of political crisis.
On the other hand, “The fact that three protest banners could hang high in a busy urban area for three hours without police intervention, indicates the dissatisfaction and anger towards the Xi regime within the system have surfaced.”
Yuan Hongbing stated that the entire incident not only reveals the collapse of the CCP’s stability maintenance system but also exposes the underlying discontent and slack behavior towards the Xi regime within the system. These are crucial warning signs for observing the political stability of the CCP.