Ren Zhiqiang hit Xi Jinping’s weakest point|Lui Yue
On September 11, Xi Jinping brought to trial Ren Zhiqiang, who wrote an article to sail into the former in early March. Enraged, Ren, also nicknamed “Cannon Ren”, put down “A clown unwaveringly aspires to the throne despite all his clothes taken off”, which had real impact on the people, and made everyone convinced Ren had breached a taboo in Chinese society and hence committed a “crime of criticism” – the most serious offence of remarks, and as a result blurred the gist of his March denunciation of Xi.
Ren started his article with the convention on February 23 convened by Xi about how to fight the epidemic and revive the economy with a force of about 170 thousand people from all over the country, and held Xi accountable for the spread of the virus from Wuhan to everywhere in the country, which had caused countless deaths, by sternly writing: “What happened last December? Why was the information not made public in time? Why did the China Central Television look into the responsibilities of the eight rumormongers on January 1? Why were there admonitions on January 3? Why was there epidemic information communicated to the U.S. on January 3? …” Ren’s chain of queries were vital questions, which have not been answered by anyone from Xi’s regime in front of the people from Wuhan, China and even all around the world. Instead, by hook or crook, the truths of the epidemic outbreak in Wuhan and the data of the primary case have been papered over, and the international experts have been stopped from making an on-the-spot investigation into the P4 Lab.
Bob Woodward’s newly published book Rage has made known the details of two telephone conversations of this year between Xi and Trump. During their 30-min phone call on February 6, Trump proposed assisting China in fighting the disease, but was turned down by Xi, who said: “I earnestly request that the U.S. and the officials of your country should not overdo it lest it might induce further panic”. In the following few weeks after the talk, Beijing and Washington, D.C., kept on being at war with each other on the virus. What riled Trump most was spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian passing the buck to the U.S. by claiming “the virus was brought to china by U.S. military”. During the second conversation on March 27, Trump reproached Zhao for his preposterous remarks, but Xi struck back: U.S. officials should stop short of leveraging Trump’s racist anti-China remarks. Since that call, the two global leaders have not talked to each other over the hotline, and the bilateral relations have been nosediving like a free fall, for which Xi was dubbed “the General Accelerator”.
This suggests Xi has been sparing no effort to mask Wuhan epidemic, his weakest point, which was hit by Ren’s denunciation that came up between the two conversations between Trump and Xi.
Death toll in China will be concealed forever
Xi’s convention of 170 thousand people lashed out at by Ren pales into insignificance in comparison with the meeting on September 8, also convened by Xi, to commend the country for fighting COVID-19 epidemic, though the two are derived from the same origin. September 2(Lunar July 15) is commonly referred to as “ghosts festival” in Chinese folk convention. On that day this year, the streets in Wuhan were likened to an enormous cemetery in a video clip on WeChat in which people burning paper money (ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead) are seen everywhere all day long. A netizen in Wuhan said he had never seen so many people holding memorial ceremonies for their relatives. How many people in Wuhan die of the disease? How many in the whole country? The figures are what Xi has resolved to cover up for good. However, when the worldwide death toll was growing every day, Xi’s regime, which exported the virus to the world, indulged in a victory meeting, passing the buck to other countries, being unwilling to be accountable to his own country and the world, dismissing the international community inquiring into the responsibility, and hushing up its embarrassment with “grand achievements” by activating domestic and overseas propaganda machines to churn out lies that boost its arrogance.
After Xi honored and awarded the medalists of national honor, progressive individuals and representatives of progressive groups that have been fighting the novel COVID-19 epidemic, almost a million people left comments on Dr. Li Wenliang’s Weibo page to remonstrate and urge people to engrave on their minds the denunciation of Xi by Ren and Xu Zhangrun.
September 14(U.S. time) was the deadline set by President Trump for restrictions of supplying computer chips to Huawei. Before that, pictures of Huawei smartphones outlets changing into vegetables shops had been circulating online. That day, Terry Branstad, U.S. Ambassador to China, left for his homeland without saying goodbye. State Secretary Pompeo announced in advance his leaving the post in October. The whole world has sensed it – what has been anticipated will materialize in the offing.
Also on September 14, Yan Limeng, a virologist having fled to the U.S., issued a study report on the origin of the virus done by her and her team, which unequivocally pointed out from the very beginning in the subject title that the virus from China is characterized by lab reconstruction. She also said more reports were coming up.
Almost 140 countries around the world hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the pandemic, ask for compensation as well as demanding an independent inquiry into the origin of the virus, which is Xi’s weakest point. If what has been anticipated materializes, China and the whole world will undergo a change.
(Lui Yue, veteran Chinese journalist)
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