It has been clear for some time that we have a real civil war
happening between the two factions of the Chinese government and they
are certainly playing with fire. The reform faction does not have
sufficient power to forcibly purge the so called bloody hands faction
outright although they certainly have the moral high ground and the
apparent leadership high ground.
This explains the ongoing agitation taking place on China's borders
that serve no conceivable purpose whatsoever except to possibly
trigger a nasty border incident and induce all those countries to
strengthen their alliances with the USA. This is not slightly in
China's interests at all. The only plausible motivation is for the
forces loyal to bloody hands faction to visibly threaten the
moderates with plausible consequences.
The reformers have been sending up balloons to prepare the country
for a actual purge while they do as much as can be done internally to
define where resistance occurs.
The situation is unstable and heading for some form of crisis. One
side or the other must make a move against the other and blow it all
open. We are how waiting for the shoe to drop.
Of course, we could well be reading way too much into all this.
Behind Labor Camp
Exposé, Political Warfare
By Matthew Robertson,
Epoch Times | April 30, 2013
The publication of accounts of the gruesome torture methods used against detainees in the Masanjia labor camp—most well known as a torture training ground for Chinese securities forces in the persecution of Falun Gong—indicates that something unusual is taking place at the top of the Chinese leadership, according to political analysts.
It also fits within a
pattern of ongoing political antagonism between the new leadership of
Xi Jinping and the Communist Party old guard, represented by former
Party leader Jiang Zemin.
It was Jiang who in
1999 oversaw the expansion of Masanjia from a regular labor camp to a
house of horrors targeting practitioners of Falun Gong with
extraordinary torture measures.
The nearly 20,000-word
exposé of Masanjia was published in Lens Magazine, most well-known
for its photography, in early April.
“There is definitely
something behind this,” says Heng He, a senior political
commentator with NTD Television. He suggested that former leader
Jiang Zemin and those who have benefitted from Jiang’s policies are
the ultimate targets of the article—with qualifications.
He said that the
political power of Jiang Zemin, the architect of the campaign, has
withered over the last 18 months or more, but that it is likely that
individuals in the Communist Party who have benefited from Jiang’s
policies were being targeted with the Masanjia report.
“Many people’s
interests are still linked to Jiang’s policies,” Heng He said.
“So the resistance to the new leadership is still high. The new
leaders have to send a strong signal to obey the current leadership.”
The perpetrators have
fought back. After the article spread across the Chinese Internet, it
was deleted from nearly all major news portals, and Liaoning
authorities issued a sharply worded public denial. They said the
article was “groundless” and contained “malicious
fabrications.”
But Yuan Ling, the
journalist who wrote the story, defended himself online, inviting
Liaoning authorities to see him in court if they disputed his
reporting, and two reporters with People’s Daily Online, the
Communist Party’s mouthpiece, who were part of the investigation
team, refused to add their signatures to the response. Luo Changping,
the deputy-chief editor of Caijing Magazine, praised them on his
blog.
The timing of the
publication of the Masanjia revelations is also telling, because it
comes on the heels of a number of remarks by Xi Jinping and some key
members of his leadership group about the politics and law system,
which control the country’s labor camps, as well as the need for
labor camp reform.
In January Xi made
remarks at a politics and law work conference about combatting
corruption. At the time Wen Zhao, a political analyst, said that the
remarks were unusual because they came from the general secretary of
the Communist Party, rather than the specific cadre responsible for
politics and law work, indicating that Xi may be attempting to assert
his control over that system. The law enforcement apparatus had
previously been in the hands of Jiang Zemin and his proxies for over
a decade.
Other remarks by Li
Keqiang, the new premier, and Meng Jianzhu, the new security czar,
addressing the possibility of reform or abolishment of the labor camp
system, also received attention.
chinareports@epochtimes.com
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