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Jiang Zemin is Putting on a Modern Show of “Camouflage”
Wei Shuang
At this annual PRC National People’s Assembly, Jiang Zemin is going to hand over the power as the Chairman of national military committee. Yet, multiple sources said that Jiang is not going to attend this National People’s Assembly and the National Political Discussion Conference. The reasons, according to the sources, are focused on two possibilities: first, poor health. Some said, he is seriously ill and dying. Secondly, he is forced to say that he is not going to attend the meetings. Jiang is whining that he has lost----the guest has left and the tea is cold now.
Is Jiang Zemin really sick? For VIP like Jiang, it is impossible to be suddenly sick since he has the special medical and everyday care team to take thorough care of him. Can he suddenly fall sick and become so sick that he is virtually dying? Please don’t forget that he didn’t give up the post of CCP Central Military Chairman until last September. At that time, his health was witnessed by the public thanks to the media. Right around the death of Zhao Ziyang, he was still actively commanding his troops. And don’t forget that just a few days before the National People’s Assembly, Jiang was playing a new maneuver to choose the fifth generation national leader, a “card spot war”, ----he was requesting that Li Yuanchao should be the seed player. As everyone knows, Li belongs in Jiang’s faction and he is the current Secretary-in-General of Jiangsu Province. How can he be suddenly so ill that he can’t attend the two meetings? Let’s put aside the fact that he didn’t give up the post of CCP Central Military Chairman until last September; let’s just look at the simple fact about any retired CCP “founding tycoons”---what a medical team they get to enjoy! There is no way that any of them will suddenly fall dead.
Is it true that Jiang Zemin has lost in that power struggle? Everyone knows that in the nine-headed ruling body of CCP Central Political Committee, Jiang’s men take up absolutely the majority; Everyone knows that among the handful of high-ranking military officials, 79 of the Generals were hand-picked by Jiang and over 300 of the Lieutenant Generals were hand-picked by Jiang, too; Everyone knows that, during the 10+ years of Jiang’s absolute power ruling, Jiang hand-picked so many of his men to be appointed to almost all the important posts, including the provincial level. Even now, it looks like he is completely retiring, but, against all odds, the “Biography of Jiang Zemin”, written by a foreigner, is at “hot” sale in China now, and created the sale miracle of selling “over a million copies” in the shortest time, to sing the high praises that “He changed China”. Right before the opening of the two meetings, Hu Jintao asked the media not to mention “the Third and Fourth Generations”, to avoid troubles. What does all this suggest? Is Jiang Zemin really losing or he is accumulating?
Therefore, to say that Jiang is whining that he is losing and so sick and dying that he can’t attend the two meetings only suggests bigger schemes. What could that be? I believe it is his trick of camouflage----people tend to think that “when the power is there, the strength is there; when the power is gone, so is the strength” and people will feel sorry for the dying and forgive whatever wrong doings the dying did. This is a modern version of “Si Mayi pretended to be sick and toppled Cao Dynasty and virtually crowned himself.” Jiang’s goal is to dupe Chinese people, to dupe US, to dupe all who are vigilant to him, in order to realize his great goal of conquering US and its allied countries and taking over the hegemony of the world and eventually turning China into Jiang Dynasty. This is exactly the big scheme Zhang Hongbao has disclosed in his “CCP's Post-nuclear Super Weapons and Its Geostrategic Goa”. So far, there is no word that Jiang is going to resign from the heads of the “Five Leaders Groups”, neither that the Assembly is going to dismiss Jiang from these posts. This is really worrisome.
To be sure, it is Jiang Zemin’s trade secret to play low-key camouflage.
Looking back, when Deng Xiaoping was still around, he was playing leftist at first, following the footsteps of Mao’s. Once Deng made a speech about “inspection to the South”, he immediately made a sharp turn, and followed Deng closely. All the changes only aimed at one thing: gaining national power.
When US “mistakenly bombed Chinese Embassy”, he meekly asked US to apologize; when US and Chinese military airplanes collided in South China Sea, he was as meek as before in asking US to apologize and the goal was clearly to make US believe that he is no rival, since he hadn’t accumulated enough strength to beat US.
At this moment, Jiang Zemin, who is well-known for being a big limelight-seeker, claimed to be losing power and to be too sick to attend the meetings---at this very moment when the whole world is watching attentively. Does this sound like Jiang Zeming? But if you probe a bit deeper, you will see that Jiang is chuckling to himself. This is his more advanced performance, just to play dead to disarm his enemies while he accumulates strengths and waits for the best time. At least Europe has believed Jiang’s performance and lifted the ban of weapon trading to China. Once the US buys Jiang’s trick, Jiang’s real dream will become true.