Beijing: There are rumours that Chinese President Xi Jinping is currently under house arrest and former President Hu Jintao and former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are ruling the country. Discussions on Chinese social media substantiate these rumours, claiming that the Chinese army has blocked the highway leading to the capital Beijing. The process of power change is going on behind closed doors in China, in which the senior officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), General Li Qiaoming, is at the forefront and there is a strong discussion that the military officers who faced action from Xi Jinping are currently participating in PLA meetings. But as of now, these claims have not turned into news and are considered rumours. Still, no one can deny that the pace of these rumours coming from behind China’s steel curtain is dizzying and has a background.
Gordon Chang, a US analyst of Chinese descent, clarified that the claims of a coup from China are currently only rumours. Gordon Chang said that it could not be ignored, as entirely different moves within the Chinese military over the past three days, signal a sense of unease among the country’s leadership. Chang has also shared videos of these military operations on social media. Gordon Chang is renowned as a keen analyst with an in-depth understanding of Chinese movements and predicts the fall of the Chinese Communist regime. The observations he made are thought-provoking for analysts around the world.
Chinese President Xi Jinping had not left his country to visit any other country during and even after the Coronavirus outbreak. Moreover, his movement in China was also limited. It was being discussed in the international media that there was a suspicion of a coup plot behind this. But at that time, this could not be confirmed. Xi Jinping was recognized as the only leader after Mao Tse Tung, who led the state revolution in China, who has unified all powers in his hands. Using these unlimited powers, Xi Jinping set the stage for eliminating his political rivals. He also started appointing his trusted officers to the positions in PLA.
It was claimed that restlessness is growing in China against this and that there will be a strong reaction from the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. But for a long time, Xi Jinping succeeded in suppressing dissent from his opposition. However, after the Coronavirus pandemic, the zero covid policy adopted by them, meaning the policy of imposing a strict curfew to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, caused increasing dissatisfaction among the public. This also affected Xi Jinping’s leadership and as China’s economy began to decline, there were reports of Xi Jinping losing his grip on the Chinese Communist Party. For this reason, Xi Jinping did not leave China for a visit to another country, as he was worried that his grip on power would slip and there would be an ambush after leaving the country.
However, it was difficult for Xi Jinping to be absent from the SCO meeting held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This is all the background for the rumours that Xi Jinping’s fears have come true after returning home. Chinese social media reports that six thousand domestic and international flights have been cancelled from Beijing airport in the last two days. There are reports on social media that China’s railway services have been suspended until further notice. Videos are also being released claiming that the Chinese army has captured highways leading to Beijing. These videos have been released by Jiang Zhen, an activist of the US-based Chinese Human Rights Organization.
On September 21, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had an urgent meeting with the senior US statesman Henry Kissinger. Kissinger is known as the architect of the US foreign policy and the statesman who won the Cold War with Soviet Russia. He created a dilemma for Soviet Russia by establishing cooperation between the United States and China. Senior members of the Politburo, which controls China’s ruling Communist Party, have very close ties with Kissinger. Therefore, the meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Kissinger on September 21 is considered suspicious. Also, there are indications that Russia is aware of these upheavals in China.
Claims are being made that Russia’s national fuel company Gazprom has blocked fuel supplies to China. Some say that Russia took this decision only to support Xi Jinping. But Russia has informed that the fuel supply has been stopped for routine maintenance.
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