• published: 08 Aug 2014
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Zhou Yongkang, who is identified as the biggest tiger (highest ranking corrupt official), has been officially placed under investigation in the anti-corruption wave. On August 4, Changbai Mountain Daily newspaper disclosed that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Head Xi Jinping’s said, "during the fight against corruption, I don’t care about my life and death," triggering public concern. A Beijing political scholar told an NTD reporter that Xi’s speech is being communicated to the party, but has been blocked by Liu Yunshan, the member of the Politburo Standing Committee, responsible for propaganda. Changbai Mountain Daily reported that on Aug. 4, CCP Head of Baishan City of Jilin Province Li Wei presided over an enlarged Municipal CCP Standing Committee meeting on the morning of Aug. 1. During the meeting, he quoted Xi Jinping who said the two opposing corruption and anti-corruption armies were confronting each other, and were at a "stalemate." He also mentioned that Xi Jinping said that, "during the fight against corruption, life and death, personal praise or blame, do not matter to me." Mainland websites including Sina, Netease and Caixin as well as Hong Kong's Takungpao all reprinted this article, but later they were all deleted. Even on the Changbai Mountain Daily website, a link to this article has expired. Former president of Military Academy Press, Mr. Xin Ziling told NTD that Xi Jinping's speech has been circulated within the CCP, but Politburo Standing Committee member Liu Yunshan who is responsible for propaganda, ordered that the relevant articles be deleted. Mr Xin Ziling: "This is a fierce fight within the party being conducted by Liu Yunshan. Liu Yunsan commanded the propaganda power, which does not tie in with this. Such a speech has been published to boost the ambition of reformists and destroy the corruption group's power. This is to increase people’s ambition and destroy the corrupted officials’ power." Former Communist Party secretary of the State Council Yu Meisun said Xi's, "do not care about life and death" remarks reveal the fierce fight at the high level. Yu Meisun: " So many tigers including Zhou Yongkang, Xu Caihou, such big tigers, Bo Xilai, have been constantly embattled. Behind each big tiger there are a bunch of small tigers (low level corrupted officials). This is a great force. So in order to crush the forces of the corruptive officials, how serious the massive counterattack is! What a great game it is!" Xin Ziling said China corruption was rampant, which is inseparable to the ruling strategy of untouching the corruption developed by the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. Xin Ziling: "You see Jiang Zemin, he ruled for ten years, and continued to hold power for ten years after retirement. He took power for twenty-three years altogether. He used this corruption to corrode officials and to recruit his gang members. Then in China, the corruption has been grouped, departmentalized and regionalized. So this thing is serious, and to punish one official will involve a bunch of officials." After "Tigers" Xu Caihou and Zhou Yongkang fell, the Central Discipline and Inspection Commission of the CCP Central Committee rushed to station in Shanghai. The public is invariably focused on the behind the scenes boss of Xu Caihou and Zhou Yongkang— the highest level Tiger— Jiang Zemin. Xin Ziling: "If Jiang Zemin is to stop the resistance, admit mistakes, and to assume his own historic responsibility, then in the future he may be spared with lenient measures. But if he continues in such a fight to the end, then it is hard to say. Because if you do not completely topple him, then you would not get through the barrier. The largest tiger is on the road, so you have to hit him." Xin Ziling believes that Xi Jinping’s statement, "don’t care about a person’s life and death" means that he is determined to cross this threshold and no one can hold him back. The Central Discipline and Inspection Commission of the CCP Central Committee stationed in Shanghai is to thoroughly solve the problems of the Shanghai Gang led by Jiang Zemin. An anonymous professor of Zhejiang University said his friends were all talking about this matter, and from all indications, Xi Jinping is targeting the "ultimate big tiger" Jiang Zemin. A professor from Zhejiang University: "I believe it's not entirely the busybodies’ guess. There should be some ways to deliberately leak some inside messages more or less. It is intentionally releasing news via non-official channels, which forms a public opinion and eases the pressure. When the news is really released, this will not cause a lot of social unrest. A big tiger like Zhou Yongkang can be investigated, . 《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/