Did Cai Qi Step Down as Director of the General Office? Wang Xiaohong’s Son-in-Law’s Ledger Exposed! Emperor Xi Flees with Family; DNA Tracing of Extramarital Heirs; Public Security SWAT Assassin Squads Cross-Border Silencing Operations [Jiang Feng Vision 20260606 Episode 403]

This article analyzes the power struggles and latest developments among the top leadership in Zhongnanhai in early June 2026, including rumors of Cai Qi serving concurrently as president of the Party School and stepping down as director of the General Office, the exposure of Wang Xiaohong's son-in-law's money laundering ledger and the locking of overseas capital channels, Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to North Korea and its political considerations, and the anti-Xi coalition's encirclement and liquidation of the elite faction through private equity regulations, new technology transfer rules, offshore trust DNA reviews, and other means.

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Welcome to Jiang Feng Horizon. On the afternoon of June 5, 2026, the camera zoomed in at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. That paramount leader who once pointed the way tilted his head, his face so swollen it was nearly deformed. That moon face, caused by the long-term, high-dose use of glucocorticoids, shone with swelling under the high-definition close-up. His feet dragged across the crimson carpet as if filled with a thousand pounds of raw lead, unable to maintain his center of gravity with a penguin-like gait—medically known as a hemiplegic gait. Look at the expression in Cai Qi's eyes beside him; this ruthless character usually accustomed to a murderous aura in the imperial capital showed not a shred of his past murderous intent in that instant, replaced instead by a trace of undisguised terror and relief from having survived a catastrophe. Good heavens, you finally managed to stand up; if you had collapsed here today, all of our heads would have been on the chopping block.

This was a puppet resurrection show that exhausted the most top-tier medical resources of Zhongnanhai, forcefully sustained by that imperial stroke doctor using limit doses of hormones and fatal acupuncture needles. The video of the entire welcoming ceremony was only 2 minutes and 46 seconds long, and the close-up shots of his body were a mere 46 seconds. For this pitifully short duration of under a minute, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under immense pressure, left Lao President Thongloun waiting for a full three days—three whole days. Wang Yi himself exuded a sense of exhaustion as if his energy had been drained. It almost cost me my life; for this zombie show, a bloody crackdown has already erupted behind the scenes in Zhongnanhai, mobilizing special police (SWAT police) across Hong Kong and Guangdong, and even uprooting transnational money laundering networks. To save his own skin, the actual operator of the Cambodian Prince Group and Hong Kong Huiwang Guarantee, who is the nephew of Cai Qi's wife's biological brother, has completely betrayed Wang Xiaohong's son-in-law.

Wang Xiaohong is anxious, truly anxious. On the very night the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was preparing to close the net, several off-road vehicles with special license plates crossed the border under the flickering neon lights of Hong Kong. These were the sharpest death squads in Wang Xiaohong's hands—the Ministry of Public Security's Special Service Bureau. Their goal was singular: to silence the Wenzhou middleman who held the money laundering ledgers before the CCDI could reach him. On that same day of the bloody encirclement, another political territory had its locks changed in the dark. At 20:03 on June 5, 2026, Xinhua News Agency suddenly released a report stating that Cai Qi had attended a graduation ceremony and issued diplomas in his capacity as President of the Central Party School. Chief of Staff Cai had taken on another core position, basking in immense glory. However, if we look at the details, Lianhe Zaobao added an extremely embarrassing note when it published its report at 20:56 on Friday: as of the time of writing, the official website of the Central Party School still listed Chen Xi as the incumbent president—a status that remained until 9:00 PM. The lock on the front door had been changed, but the nameplate for Chen Xi's personal profile in the back room had not even been taken down yet.

This kind of severe technical disconnect between the front and back offices is, in the strictly disciplined and airtight Zhongnanhai, the most typical and cold-blooded public slap in the face within the system. This hasty replacement of Chen with Cai was by no means an orderly, step-by-step transition; it was a surprise personnel change forced through by the decision-making and coordination bodies controlling the situation, holding a knife to Xi Jinping's throat. Removing Chen Xi completely blocks all channels through which he could use the Party School to vet and cultivate provincial-level reserve cadres. Looking at the intelligence released by Jiang Wangzheng, Cai Qi is set to relinquish his position as Director of the General Office of the CCP Central Committee around the Fifth Plenary Session. Whoever controls the General Office effectively controls the head of state's travel schedule, confidential documents, and core defense security. Now, before the winds of the Fifth Plenary Session have even officially picked up, the news that Cai Qi is to hand over the keys to the General Office has already become an open secret within the Red Walls. Some say that regardless of whether Cai Qi steps down at the Fifth Plenary Session, he remains a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and First Secretary of the Secretariat, and has even taken over the Party School—his power has actually expanded. In reality, having him take charge of the Party School is merely stuffing his administrative schedule with hundreds or thousands of specific daily compliance and cadre assessment signatures. Inspection teams have already moved into the Central Party School; as long as Cai Qi misses a single item in the school's affairs, his opponents can initiate compliance procedures at any time to find fault, preparing for his complete removal at the Fifth Plenary Session.

Even more fatal is the obscure report suddenly released by Chinese state media on Friday night regarding the strengthening of inter-ministerial coordination between central and local authorities to regulate private equity funds. Do you think this high-profile push to strengthen private equity regulation at such a critical juncture is about financial compliance? This is a precisely laid financial pocket array designed to completely suffocate the overseas capital channels of specific families, and the CCDI is working overtime. On the very night the second batch of inspection teams moved in, the son-in-law of the younger brother of Cai Qi's wife, Lin Chengsheng—the operator managing a specific money laundering network in Cambodia and Hong Kong—threw Wang Xiaohong's son-in-law directly under the bus during the investigation to save his own skin. Wang Xiaohong's security system secretly headed to Hong Kong and Guangdong in an attempt to control key witnesses, only to be locked down by this newly issued industry regulation on inter-ministerial coordination for private equity, which instantly cut off all channels for capital to leave the country. The secret vaults hidden overseas by the Cai Qi family were unplugged and powered down overnight. The surprise changing of the locks on Chen Xi marks the total collapse of the outer defenses of the Tsinghua Clique and the Shandong Clique. Cai Qi facing the loss of his position at the General Office marks the moment when the core of Xi Jinping's security defenses begins to fall into the hands of others, and the sudden tightening of financial regulation has cut off their path of retreat for self-preservation. So, in this game where the balance of power is completely lopsided, what kind of crazy, final struggle will that head-of-state, who walks with a limp and a tilted head, and those die-hard guards who cannot jump ship, ultimately resort to?

Xinhua News Agency has released a report that the head of state will visit North Korea from June 8 to 9, 2026. Foreign media are paying close attention, noting that this is his first trip abroad in 2026 and his first time stepping onto the red carpet in Pyongyang in nearly seven years. But do you really think this is just a dazzling diplomatic expedition? The truly bizarre aspect of this Pyongyang trip is who wants him to go and who is deliberately not stopping him. On Friday, he finally made a rare appearance to meet with Lao leader Thongloun Sisoulith. As soon as the cameras turned on, everyone was staring at how much longer his body could hold up—look at that dark complexion, look at that penguin-like gait. For an authoritarian regime propped up entirely by the myth of a 'great leader,' this is nothing short of a disaster. The myth has already been shattered, and he must immediately stage a bigger show. The Great Hall of the People in Beijing is no longer enough, and small countries like Laos are not enough either. It must be a state visit; he wants to use the red carpet under the Pyongyang sun to tell those restless elements within the Party, 'Look, I can still travel abroad, I am not dead yet,' and even more so to tell the lackeys around him who are living in constant fear, 'Don't scatter, I haven't fallen yet.' This is the first layer of logic for his trip to North Korea. A deeper layer is huddling together for warmth in despair. Xi has almost lost all his trump cards within the Party and the military. His control over the military, organizational power, and disciplinary power were long ago stripped away during the great purges. All he has left in his hands are propaganda, diplomacy, the economy, and the public security and secret agent powers held by Wang Xiaohong. He is like a bankrupt gambler who can only look for cards abroad. Vietnam is the 'socialist brother' card, Russia is the 'bleeding war' card, and North Korea is the dangerous card that could flip the table at any moment. He wants to fabricate the illusion of an anti-Western axis to declare to the country, 'I, Xi Jinping, am not fighting alone; I have an entire anti-Western axis behind me,' in order to delay the final reckoning by the decision-making and coordination bodies.

But the question is, why aren't the CCP elders, who are watching coldly from deep within Zhongnanhai, stopping him? If they were truly afraid of him going to North Korea, they could easily use a thousand high-sounding excuses—such as his physical condition or security loopholes—to firmly suppress this trip. The elders are not afraid of him going at all; they are even hoping he goes every day. If you don't leave, many people are still hiding, playing both sides, and watching the wind. But once you leave, whoever goes on the plane with you, whoever sees you off at the airport, and whoever helps you hold the stage in Pyongyang—that person is a die-hard loyalist to Emperor Xi. If the leaks are true, Cai Qi and Wang Xiaohong will accompany him. He doesn't dare leave them in Beijing at all. He knows clearly that the moment he steps out of Beijing, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the 82nd Group Army might change the locks on Zhongnanhai. If Wang Xiaohong stays in Beijing, he might be targeted by the CCDI in the blink of an eye; if Cai Qi stays in Beijing, he might find himself completely replaced the moment he steps out the door; if Peng Liyuan stays in Beijing, she might become another unbearable pressure point. The fact that he is even taking his daughter with him shows that his entire family has completely lost confidence in the security of Beijing. The elders are not stopping him not only to identify the list of loyalists but also because of a deeper diplomatic grand strategy. North Korea has been getting too close to Russia over the past two years. The news of supplying weapons and personnel to the Russia-Ukraine battlefield has caused a huge stir. Even Reuters and the Associated Press have seen through this, suggesting that the CCP elders are letting Xi Jinping go to North Korea to act as a tool, to forcibly drag back Kim Jong Un, who is on the verge of leaning completely toward Moscow.

In fact, Kim Jong Un invited him as early as last October, but the Fourth Plenary Session hadn't been held yet, and he didn't dare leave Beijing for fear that his cronies would be wiped out in one fell swoop, so he only dared to let Li Qiang go on his behalf. Now he has to go because he has nowhere left to retreat; he has to put all his diplomatic, security, and family cards on the table at once. You need to rely on Kim Jong Un to prove you still have friends; you need the Pyongyang red carpet to prove you still have power; you need to take your entire family, eunuchs, and hatchet men with you to feel safe—that precisely proves that you no longer have even a single day of safety in Beijing. The CCDI, the Organization Department, and the military are already holding the list and circling names in red one by one. Watching the chaos in Zhongnanhai, where the person on stage is literally driving his own body into the grave for the sake of power, even the gods cannot save him. As for us ordinary people, we need to pay more attention to our own health; that is the most tangible asset we have.

The anti-Xi alliance has even used a truly terminal move in terms of procedure. Do you think Putin's high-profile visit to Beijing a few days ago was really a rock-solid alliance as the official narrative of the 'defenders of the new order' claims? According to penetrating assessments by top think tanks, this seemingly high-level diplomatic show is actually a bad check. Putin has been downgraded to a bargaining chip and a prop for negotiations with the US. The decision-making and coordination bodies are infinitely expanding their say on substantive interests such as natural gas pipelines and large-scale unrestricted financial settlements, directly draining all the substance from the previously promised 'no-limits' cooperation.

An even more formidable kill move is being played out at the technology and industry levels. The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology high-profilely issued new regulations strictly controlling the transfer of technology overseas. Official rhetoric grandiloquently claims this is to guard against U.S. technological chokepoints and protect independent intellectual property rights, but this is clearly a power-monetization blockade executed by the anti-Xi alliance under the guise of righteousness against the Xi Jinping faction and Peng Liyuan's Shandong clique. By formulating extremely harsh technology transfer approvals and cross-border compliance reviews, they have legally nullified the autonomy of specific factions to transfer core patent technology property rights abroad through overseas licensing or joint ventures. Those affiliated tech giants hidden in places like Shenzhen and Hangzhou, along with the tech white gloves of specific factions, had their asset transfer channels completely choked off overnight.

What is even more spine-chilling is the infant Danny DNA genetic case recently tracked with high profile by Hong Kong media. This is a truly devastating kill move. High-ranking officials of the Fujian and Shandong cliques left behind tens of billions in offshore trust assets for their illegitimate children in Hong Kong through offshore trust funds. Meanwhile, the anti-Xi alliance directly implemented extremely strict penetrating DNA paternity testing and trust beneficiary penetrating reviews in the Hong Kong region. Once the bloodline and asset proxy relationships do not match up, these trust assets immediately face litigation and freezing. This legally and procedurally deprives these specific families' illegitimate children of their asset inheritance rights, cutting off not only their financial paths but thoroughly severing their descendants' future exits.

Now, the CCDI's audit targeting the NDRC systems of He Lifeng and Zheng Shanjie has entered the final stage of account penetration. The breakthrough in the Wu Hao case is closing in on the Fujian clique's core purse. Wen Jiabao and Hu Chun-hua are utilizing the NDRC's special science and technology audits to procedurally freeze He Lifeng's black-box operations over the approval power for trillion-level major infrastructure projects nationwide. On the other side, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Rollins is leaking pressure, but in reality, the negotiation team led by Li Chenggang had long secretly signed a compromise agreement regarding buying soybeans, purchasing airplanes, and selling TikTok. All kinds of tough protests are purely put on show for domestic Boxers to see, with the sole purpose of forcing the paramount leader to bear the blame of making concessions to the U.S. squarely on his own back before handing over the presidency next March, using the banner of righteousness to strip the opponent's power clean and wash the slate completely. This is the most ruthless and cruel perfect encirclement in the deep waters. See you next time.