The Real Purpose Behind Xi Jinping's Renovation of Mao Zedong's Mausoleum. "True China"

This video discusses Xi Jinping's renovation plan for Chairman Mao's Mausoleum and its true purpose. Host Hu Liren points out that while the maintenance cycle of the mausoleum conforms to convention, the orientation and content of this renovation will undergo a fundamental change. Xi Jinping plans to transform the mausoleum into the "Museum of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation," extensively promote "Xi Jinping Thought," and possibly even remove Mao's remains (which the host believes have long decomposed and exist only symbolically). This is intended to bypass former leaders such as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, directly combining Marxism with "Xi Jinping Thought" and occupying a core propaganda position. The host believes this move aims to consolidate Xi Jinping's personal authority and push the country toward an era of autocracy, which has already sparked protests within the upper echelons of the CCP. In addition, the video mentions rumors that Mao's portrait on the Tiananmen Rostrum might be replaced with Xi Jinping's portrait, considering this a major shift in the nation's iconic symbols. The host analyzes that Xi's rejection of collective leadership, his emphasis on the "great rejuvenation" concept of personal dictatorship, and his unstable foundation in the military all increase his political risks, which could lead to civil war. The final renovation plan for the mausoleum remains to be seen, but Xi Jinping's ambition and high risks coexist.

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Hello everyone! Let's talk about another topic today, which is Mao's Mausoleum, currently under renovation. In fact, based on the timeline, how often is Mao's Mausoleum normally renovated? The renovations usually take about five to six months. The timing is correct; it started renovating in March this year and will run until August. But right now, this isn't just routine maintenance of Mao's Mausoleum. According to the past timeline, the actual renovation of Mao's Mausoleum should have been next year, 2027—I don't remember the exact interval, whether it's once every ten or twenty years, and how many times it has been renovated. Renovating Mao's Mausoleum periodically is normal because many of its exhibitions and displays now use technological means. As the society and the country change, the internal exhibits of Mao's Mausoleum will also change gradually. Just like when Mao's Mausoleum was first renovated in the 1970s, many things were not included at the time, but they were gradually added later, and it has been continuously remodeled—that is normal. But this renovation is completely different. I started talking about the renovation of Mao's Mausoleum this March; in fact, I made a video about it last year. I actually talked about it roughly half a year in advance. At that time, some people in Beijing were already talking about the fact that Xi was going to renovate Mao's Mausoleum. Back then, they were asking people to submit proposals on how to renovate it. There were such thoughts within the Communist Party at the time. Xi Jinping proposed something called the "Great Chinese..." what was it? The "Museum of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation," something like that.

With such a positioning, its position is actually to treat Mao's—Mao's remains, well, in fact, Mao's remains have long since ceased to exist. What you all see now as Mao's so-called remains is actually a replica, a replica, something similar to plastic, it's a kind of plastic piece. When you look at it, it's just like a wax figure. But he is lying down, this remains, this remains preservation is not that simple, not that simple. And back then, around the year 2000, from the 1990s of the last century to around 2000, when I went to Beijing, someone from the military once told me—people from the higher levels of the military told me—that the corpse inside Mao's Mausoleum, that is, his remains, actually no longer exists, it had long since rotted away. What you see now is what they call a plastic box. That was how it was described back then. So, as you can see, what everyone is looking at now is just a symbolic thing. Then Xi believes that this thing can no longer be kept here, that it must be removed, it must be removed. I think removing it is also right, but this time the renovation, what is its main focus? It is mainly called what? This, this great rejuvenation hall of the Chinese nation, that is its positioning. And what does it mainly promote? It mainly promotes Xi Jinping Thought, it mainly promotes Xi Jinping Thought to go hand in hand with Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping Thought. In fact, about seventy or eighty percent of the content is about promoting Xi Jinping, which means Xi Jinping is elevating himself. This was one thing, this was the news that leaked out last year, last year this, this CCP high-level leak about exploring this—some people recorded these news leaks, at the time indicating that next year they would move Mao's Mausoleum. Later, indeed, in March, it was suddenly announced, and after the announcement, until August 1 of this year—I am telling the truth. But this, this plan, outsiders do not know, but people on the inside actually all knew. Xi Jinping had already discussed these things in internal meetings, and he explained it very clearly, explained it very clearly, that it is no longer suitable for this era, right? So this matter needs to be handled and dealt with.

What is one thing Xi Jinping has always been doing? You know? He directly skips Mao, skips Deng, skips this, skips Jiang, skips Hu, and directly connects himself with Marxism. Now Xi Jinping is equivalent to skipping all these leaders. Ah, skipping all leaders, ah, combining Marxist thought with his own thought. In this way, a connection is made, and this is what Xi Jinping is doing now. So in the future, ah, inside Mao's Mausoleum, there will be some exhibitions, exhibitions about some people within the Communist Party, that is, those who founded the regime. But, the main promotion is two points: one is Marxism, this is something he wants to promote, this is the ancestral tablet he wants to hang up; the second is Xi Jinping Thought. These two things, these two things already account for eighty or ninety percent, and another ten to fifteen, twenty percent promotes the entire experience of the Communist Party. This is how Mao's image is being phased out. So this is one thing, ah, that is Mao's Mausoleum. The second thing is Mao's portrait, ah, Mao's portrait, replacing Mao's portrait on the Tiananmen Gate tower with Xi's portrait. I made a video about this last year, this was not at the time—at the time, someone from Beijing leaked that he felt Mao's portrait was already outdated, no longer suited for the development of the new China and the new era, and no longer suited for the Communist Party having fully stabilized its footing. Back then, Mao was hung in that place because the Communist Party had not firmly established its footing, and under those circumstances, such a spiritual leader was needed for support. But now they have firmly established their footing, and now there is massive promotion of Xi Jinping Thought. Back then, news leaked from Beijing stating that the portrait on the Tiananmen Gate tower, Mao's portrait on the gate tower, would be replaced with Xi's portrait. Once these two things are swapped, the iconic symbols of the entire country will be changed, the iconic symbols will be changed. And it will be replaced by the whole thing being under Xi's rule.

Also, everyone, have you heard it? Has anyone ever thought about one thing? That is, since Xi Jinping came to power, he has kept talking about the "great rejuvenation," the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation—isn't there this term? The great rejuvenation? Do you know why? Why does Xi Jinping want to push this? He believes that certain dynasties in China's history saw the country as extremely prosperous, and none of those dynasties were under collective leadership; they were all ruled by autocracy and dictatorship, right? So he feels that autocratic and dictatorial leadership is the only way to make the country truly great, rather than collective leadership. Ah, so what the princelings and military descendants are currently rejecting about Xi Jinping is precisely this—they are rejecting the fact that he has repudiated the Chinese Communist Party's collective leadership. This is why everyone feels unsafe and why everyone universally opposes him. This is the most important point, the most important point. So now, ah, now because everyone has brought up, brought up that this, this memorial hall, shouldn't be changed like this, shouldn't be changed like this, believing that keeping, keeping Mao's memorial tablet in that place, ah, is beneficial to the entire country. However, if you were to put your Xi Thought there, creating a whole separate section just for it, that would be detrimental to the entire country. The country would once again regress into this era of autocracy. Now, Xi Jinping hopes to be able to do this, but these actions have already met with collective protests, collective protests from the upper echelons, right? So now, what about Xi? Now it's unclear whether, uh, whether he will change this? Will he change it? I estimate he will change a part of it, change a part of it. But, uh, he also doesn't want to completely overhaul it, doesn't want to completely overhaul it, because previously there was no Xi in Mao's Memorial Hall—where would a part for Xi be? He wants to put this most important part of his into it. Then in the future, what will Mao's Memorial Hall become? The Hall of the Great Rejuvenation. Then in the future, ah, all these officials, all Chinese people, will probably have to go regularly, just like a political task, just like currently, ah, just like currently all these people in the Chinese Communist Party have a specific propaganda app on their mobile phones. And what is the real content of this app? It is Xi Thought, Xi Thought. So Xi Jinping, ah, he wants to change all of his, change all ordinary people's thoughts into his Xi Thought. This is what Xi Jinping is doing right now, what he is doing—that is, he insists that the people of the whole country must recognize that his Xi Thought is completely correct, is great, and is the foundation of the nation's great rejuvenation. Without Xi Thought, this country will not be great. Ah, this is what he is currently doing, ah. Therefore, ah, Mao's Memorial Hall might be changed, might be changed, because right now everyone is dodging him, dodging him, and does not want him to continue doing this, to keep doing this. Once he continues doing this, then, then this country might easily fall into civil war, ah!

I have already mentioned that now, because of this and that, especially these children of military officials, and the children of military officials have already united with the princelings. Now these children of military officials, many of the princelings actually do not have military power. They don't have military power, right? Many of them don't. For example, Liu Shaoqi did not have military power. What did Liu Yuan have? He later had military power, but his previous generation did not. He was the party chairman, right? What kind of military power did he have? Where was the real military power held? It was held in the hands of these veteran military leaders, right? So their children later went on to become soldiers. Liu Yuan originally went—actually, Liu Yuan is just like Xi Jinping. He later served in the military; going into the military and serving there was just a process, just a process, the same as Xi. He was not originally from the military, but suddenly became the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. This was a strategy of holding a nominal post. But they truly had no such foundation, no such roots within the military. Therefore, regarding the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, I think its plan will likely be changed; the plan will likely be changed. How it will be specifically changed depends on the situation of their negotiations. Xi Jinping Thought might still have a presence, but it won't account for such a heavy, such a heavy proportion. That is, Mao—his original proposal was Marxism, not even Marxism-Leninism, as Lenin was removed by him; combining Marxist theory with Xi Jinping Thought is supposed to account for at least 80 percent. This was the positioning of Mao's Memorial Hall at that time: de-Maoification. With de-Maoification, there is almost complete de-Maoification; Mao's thought is gone, already completely, completely, completely, completely going to be phased out. That's how it is. So Xi Jinping's ambition is huge, step by step. That is to say, because of his huge ambition, his risk has become high; his risk has become high. Now he has encountered these major risks. Now Xi Jinping is living in constant panic. Look, he doesn't know when something will happen, right? The military forces he currently possesses are simply unable to block it. The children of these veteran military leaders—the children of the veteran military leaders, the military forces they control are extremely powerful. Ah, what field armies and such from the past, which field army and which field army—that was formidable, that was a major force, that was a major force. Moreover, the situation now is that these people are all united. Now people in the military have already seen right through Xi Jinping; he no longer has any appeal. You, Xi Jinping, as the Central Military Commission—your orders issued can only reach the Beijing Garrison Command; when you issue orders further down, they don't reach. So did everyone think about this some time ago? After certain events happened to Xi later on, many people did not—various military units did not publish articles about pledging loyalty to Xi Jinping. This is a very strange thing! In fact, many people were guessing at the time that Xi simply has no foundation in the military; he is like a commander with no actual subordinates, hanging as a commander at the top while those at the bottom pay him no attention at all, right? This is the current situation! Let's look at this. There are still two weeks—two months left. Now it's already the end of June, and by the end of August, the final conclusion will be set. Let's see—this is extremely important, right? This is like a—it's like a divine artifact, like a divine object to the Chinese Communist Party. For the Chinese Communist Party, it is a relatively—to the Party, it is a divine artifact and object, right? Well, thank you all for watching, and see you in the next topic.