Xi Jinping Once Again Uses the “Anti-Gangster and Evil Elimination” Campaign to Vigorously Loot Private Enterprises Nationwide. True China
The program focuses on the "deepening of the special campaign to combat organized crime and root out local evil" deployed by the CCP starting in July 2026. The host connects this to the "anti-mafia" campaign in Chongqing, the 1983 "Strike Hard" campaign, and the development of private enterprises, suggesting that this movement may be targeting large private enterprises and entrepreneurs. The program also highlights the development of STO Express, Jack Ma's investment, and recent reports of him being under investigation, while discussing the relationship between the private economy and political power.
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In this episode, I want to talk to you about a very sensitive movement that the CCP suddenly announced a few days ago, called "combating organized crime and rooting out local evil" (dahei chue). Do you remember where the term "dahei chue" comes from? Back then, in Chongqing, they were "singing red songs and combating the black" (changhong dahei), and the Chongqing Municipal Party Secretary Bo Xilai sent Wang Lijun to carry this out. What was the main purpose at that time? It was to strike at the private economy and take down all the large private enterprises of that time. In fact, it was a form of robbery against the private economy and private enterprises.
Private enterprises often have the final say locally, and they do indeed exist in a state that is somewhat "semi-mafia" in local areas. However, the survival of these private enterprises in those places has indeed created a very good state for the overall local economy, the national economy, and local employment.
They have made contributions, but you cannot demand that all Chinese private enterprise owners have very high moral standards; that is impossible. Chinese society itself advocates the law of the jungle, and these enterprises are often in collusion with local police, procuratorates, courts, and local governments; this is very normal in China.
At that time, in order to build his own reputation in Chongqing, Bo Xilai brought his trusted aide Wang Lijun from Liaoning to Chongqing to start the "dahei chue" campaign. This event had a huge impact at the time. "Dahei chue" seems like a positive term, but it is actually a derogatory one. Many private entrepreneurs were beaten at that time, and some were even innocently killed. This is history; I am talking about history.
Xi Jinping has suddenly proposed "dahei chue" again this time. For the past few years, he has been trying to find ways to ruin and eliminate the private economy, using the state apparatus, the police, procuratorates, courts, and tax authorities, among other methods, to carry out robbery. This campaign will last for one year, which means Xi Jinping's goal is to wipe out almost all those large private enterprises within a year.
These private enterprises are hubs of capital. Once something happens in the country, this capital can be put to use. Everything requires money; if these people have money, they have the ability to gather together to challenge the Communist Party and challenge the government.
Many people may not know where the money came from when Sun Yat-sen was carrying out the revolution. It all came from private business owners and private enterprises. During the Xinhai Revolution, he tried every possible way to raise funds and had various fundraising agents all over the country. He went to wealthy people across the country to spread revolutionary ideas and told them that they would receive dividends after the revolution succeeded. Under these circumstances, many local gentry took out money to support the revolution, and many fundraising efforts were also launched overseas.
Their propaganda was very effective, so private enterprises actually hide another nature, which is the ability to subvert the regime. As long as you support one side, fighting a war requires money, and carrying out a revolution also requires money.
Why did Xi Jinping take down Jack Ma? It was to break up these enterprises, to take them down, and to take down Evergrande and many other large enterprises. He knows that once private enterprises grow too large, they ultimately pose the greatest threat to the government. Once a private enterprise reaches a certain scale, many will infiltrate the government; many government officials will follow these private enterprises, listen to them, and eventually, they could dominate a region.
How powerful did Jack Ma become in China later on? Wherever he went, provincial party secretaries would fawningly follow behind him to flatter him. Why? Because Jack Ma had too much money. Jack Ma had connections with national-level and vice-national-level leaders in the central government. That is how CCP officials are: they have money and power, and once they have power and money, they sometimes participate in politics.
It is the same in the United States; this is a common principle. After Elon Musk got rich, he used his money to support Trump, and even entered the White House directly to work on political matters with Trump. Now, Musk can even become a liaison in China-US relations because he has billions of dollars invested in China, and later launched a super battery project; the investment is huge, and he cannot leave China.
China is indeed the place with Tesla's highest production capacity. Previously, one could see in China that almost all major global brands had manufacturing plants there; Mercedes-Benz and BMW later achieved localization. Mercedes-Benz has a super factory in Beijing; when production started, many things were shipped from Germany, but a year or two later, many parts were completely localized.
Long ago, after China's manufacturing industry took off, many things bought in the United States were actually produced in China. For example, Ford—I once knew a friend from Hubei who was in Detroit. He established a company in Hubei to manufacture auto parts across the country and supply them to Ford.
Once private enterprises grow large, many people, of course, never enter politics, but many do participate. Trump is a private entrepreneur who entered politics and later became a political figure. His entire family was in real estate; they were private entrepreneurs. Therefore, Xi Jinping is very worried that private entrepreneurs will eventually become the political leaders of this country.
What Xi Jinping wants to do is to take out the banner of Marx, dig Marx out of his grave, and the most important thing is to return to public ownership. I said on my program many years ago that Xi Jinping would inevitably take action against private entrepreneurs.
After Xi Jinping came to power, because I have a friend who is familiar with him and once introduced him to me, I proposed very early on that Jack Ma was in danger. When Xi Jinping came to power, I said that in China, once a private entrepreneur becomes high-profile, they are in danger. The United States is different; no matter how high-profile Musk is, he is not in danger, but it is different in China.
Later, Jack Ma was indeed in danger. He was terrified of something happening and kept wandering around overseas. Everyone saw this scene later. Now, Jack Ma has almost completely detached himself from Alibaba. The "anti-gang and anti-evil" campaign launched by Xi Jinping this time is actually aimed at private entrepreneurs.
Regarding these matters within the Communist Party, he has been in power for over a decade, arresting one or two million people every year, and has also arrested many officials. So why launch an "anti-gang and anti-evil" campaign? The ultimate goal is to seize all private enterprises. Once a person is labeled as "gang-related," it becomes a movement. Once a movement begins, although the CCP seems to have laws, the law becomes ineffective when it comes to movements; they do not act according to the law.
On August 19, 1983, China had a nationwide mass arrest campaign called "Strike Hard against Criminal Activities," which arrested many people. Many Chinese people.
Ah, there were no major crimes, not even heinous ones. A young girl going out to dance, dancing frequently, or having a few boyfriends could be labeled as a "hooligan" and eventually executed by firing squad. Executions were still quite rare at the time. This movement was initiated by Deng Xiaoping.
Taking Shanghai as an example, at that time, they couldn't hold all the people; the prisons were full. Later, they used the military to surround schools, and many schools were requisitioned. August 19 happened to be during the holidays, and the schools were packed with people. There was an elementary school nearby that was brightly lit in the middle of the night, guarded by military personnel, and those arrested were all locked in that very night.
After Deng Xiaoping came to power, many people in the labor camps in Xinjiang and Qinghai were released. These people were political prisoners at the time; after being released, they received release certificates, and some even received rehabilitation certificates. In the decades after 1949, a large number of people were released. The labor camps in Xinjiang and Qinghai later had very few people.
During the "8·19" mass arrests in 1983, many people were executed in Shanghai, and many were arrested and later sent directly to labor camps in Xinjiang and Tibet. The railways were very busy at the time; trains full of prisoners were guarded by the military and sent directly to the labor camps in Xinjiang and Tibet, where many died.
Some people from Shanghai eventually returned. From 1983 to the 1990s, some were sentenced to ten, twenty years, or even life imprisonment, and only returned after sentence reductions; some didn't return until after 2000. Everyone can go and look up this period of history.
Whenever the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launches these political movements, countless people lose their heads and their fortunes. This latest crackdown launched by Xi Jinping under the guise of sweeping away criminal syndicates and local mafia is massive in scale. Many people do not yet realize that Xi Jinping has already taken action.
The CCP Central Committee has made deployments for deepening the special campaign to crack down on organized crime, explicitly stating that starting this July—just recently—a nationwide campaign will be carried out over about a year to deepen this struggle. Everyone, pay attention to this statement.
Criminal offenses in China are currently quite rare, except for those desperate individuals driven to extremes who directly take action, start fires, or drive vehicles into crowds. How much actual organized crime is there to crack down on? Real crackdowns on criminal syndicates usually involve collusion between officials and businessmen. Who runs nightclubs? They are typically local factions colluding with the underworld, many of them having gang ties, and they almost always have police (Public Security) backing behind the scenes. The higher up you go in the CCP, the more corrupt it gets, and entrepreneurs are simply their white gloves.
Therefore, Xi Jinping’s crackdown on criminal syndicates this time will implicate numerous businesses. Xi Jinping has also been arresting a wave of people over the past couple of days, and there is another major piece of news: STO Express, one of China's top delivery companies, is being investigated.
In the past, China had no private courier industry; everything was handled by the postal service. Later, a group of entrepreneurs emerged in Tonglu, Zhejiang, and began developing courier services. At the time, they adopted a franchise model with the headquarters in Tonglu, allowing provinces and small cities everywhere to franchise and establish delivery stations. After joining, they formed a massive network consisting of thousands or tens of thousands of locations, gradually expanding and developing from the year 2000 onward.
By 2016, with the development of China's economy and internet economy, online shopping took off, creating a demand for courier services. Many people found jobs this way, joining as delivery drivers, and the company grew rapidly. Most other delivery companies that followed were also tied to Tonglu, which became known as the hometown of couriers; China's delivery industry
If this isn't robbery, what is? The ultimate goal is to nationalize enterprises. Once they target you, there is no escape. The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) "never forget the original intention" is nothing but robbery. Don't look at their propaganda; look at what they do. Five billion here, ten billion there—it is ultimately robbery, time and time again. After private enterprises perish, the equity and money all end up with them, and the business owners are either sent to prison or disappear without a trace. This is China.