The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Defense Minister Dong Jun is missing! The possibility of him being purged by Xi Jinping is increasing.

This episode mainly discusses the situation where China's current Minister of National Defense, Dong Jun, has been out of contact for a month and a half, analyzing the reasons for his potential purge amidst the large-scale purges carried out by Xi Jinping, as well as the subsequent implications. At the same time, combining the host's personal experiences and observations from earlier years, it exposes the severe corruption within the Chinese military, the issues of fraud in the fields of science, technology, and academia, and the historical background of the military's involvement in real estate development.

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There is a piece of news within the CCP now, have you all noticed? Dong Jun, the Minister of National Defense, is actually in a very significant position within the CCP. Actually, Xi Jinping—I will talk about Dong Jun today. Dong Jun is currently in a state of being out of contact, and now people inside are speculating whether he has been taken away by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. They don't announce it now; I have always said that when Xi Jinping catches people or targets people now, he always does it this way: he takes them in for a month before he starts to announce it.

Let me tell you, Dong Jun is neither a State Councilor nor a member of the Central Military Commission. Look at his position as Defense Minister; previously, Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe, these two were both Defense Ministers, and later they were both arrested. These two were both members of the Central Military Commission and State Councilors; they both held official titles at the top. In other words, their positions in the military were Defense Ministers, but their standing in the military was completely different from Dong Jun's.

Xi Jinping is very wary of Dong Jun. This person, Dong Jun, if you look at his temperament, he is different from the other people currently inside the CCP. Dong Jun is professionally trained, right, professionally trained. He originally seemed to be in the Navy; this person is from the Navy. This person looks like someone with a very upright character at first glance, giving a very good impression. And he is professionally trained; he is truly from a military background.

Currently, the situation with Xi Jinping is that as long as someone is out of contact and cannot be found, it is very likely that they have been taken away. And it is very likely for Dong Jun, because Xi Jinping's current situation is that he suspects everything, especially those people—these people often, for example, these people who look upright, who look like they have knowledge and culture—what is the situation with the Communist Party now? It is a kind of reverse selection.

As long as you bend over and act like a lapdog, right? You listen to him, you act like a slave, then you might be able to stay in your position for a while. However, once you have your own ideas, you have your own thoughts, right? You might have some doubts about some of his viewpoints, then these people are very likely to become targets of Xi Jinping's purge.

Word is spreading within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that Minister of National Defense Dong Jun may have already been purged by Xi Jinping, following his two predecessors. If Dong Jun is indeed purged, he would be the third consecutive defense minister to fall, following Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu—one, two, three. This shows that Xi Jinping no longer feels safe even around the people he promoted himself. Up to this point, Xi has lost all sense of security, and so has everyone else. He believes that someone who is his own man will get close to him, very close. Once they get close, however, a problem arises: they learn too much about Xi Jinping. Furthermore, the likelihood of anti-Xi factions subverting them increases significantly, potentially very significantly. When did Dong Jun's situation begin? Dong Jun's last public appearance was in mid-September, when he gave a speech at the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. After stepping up to give that speech, he missed the defense ministers' meeting in the Philippines—that is, the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting. He skipped it and did not go. Under these circumstances, he has completely vanished for about a month, or a month and a half—he has been missing for a month and a half. Consequently, everyone is speculating that although Xi Jinping is currently carrying out a massive purge, his purging within the military is now causing him to worry about his own security. Therefore, people inside the CCP, specifically within the military, are speculating whether Dong Jun is his man.

He is Xi Jinping's man! Look, Dong Jun has appeared on many important occasions. For example, when Trump went to Beijing, Dong Jun showed up. Dong Jun was the only military officer present at the time, as everyone remembers. During the welcome ceremony in front of the Great Hall of the People, out in the open air, Dong Jun appeared at the scene wearing a full military uniform. Logically speaking, Dong Jun should be his man. Logically speaking, Dong Jun should appear at certain very important occasions, or at events within the military as a whole. Yet for a full month and a half, he has vanished.

And this time, look, Zhang Shengmin was promoted, but Dong Jun was not promoted at all; Dong Jun was held down the entire time. At the time, he was forced to use Dong Jun as the Minister of National Defense. This man, Dong Jun, was previously unknown and was suddenly transferred up by Xi Jinping. Of course, he also has deep credentials; when he was young, he graduated from what seems to be a naval academy, graduating from a naval academy. So his qualifications are entirely sufficient, but after he later entered Xi Jinping's system, for a period of time his exposure was very high. Look, he followed Wang Yi to do whatever three-plus-three or two-plus-two meetings—everyone remembers, right? He went to Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and it seems he also went to Malaysia. He went to Malaysia, and for a while his exposure was very high. But during this recent period, a full month and a half has passed, and this is precisely the critical juncture where Xi Jinping is carrying out strict internal party struggle and party purges.

At this juncture, Dong Jun suddenly disappeared for a month and a half, which is extremely abnormal. Look at Pete Hegseth, who is also the US defense minister; his exposure is very high, right? And the CCP, as you can see now on the South China Sea issue, the Taiwan Strait issue, and even in areas like the Sea of Japan regarding Japan, is actually entering a state of standoff. But Dong—logically speaking, Dong Jun should frequently step forward. Yet Dong Jun has suddenly vanished, missing for a month and a half, so people inside, people within the CCP, can no longer contact him. As for these people, look, just a couple of days ago Hu Chunhua suddenly lost contact and then reappeared. Whether Dong Jun will reappear and whether he can clear this hurdle has become a mystery. Now, if Dong Jun has been placed under control by Xi Jinping, is there anyone to protect him? Is anyone putting pressure on Xi Jinping? I think Dong Jun is not important enough, not important enough, because Dong Jun himself is Xi Jinping's man. If he really has been placed under control by Xi Jinping, I think the possibility of the anti-Xi faction protecting him is very small, very small. Once this person is grabbed and handled by Xi Jinping, purged by Xi Jinping, I think it is such a pity.

It is a great pity, but within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), these people—those within the CCP who are caught up in internal struggles, killed, or arrested—are actually not wronged at all; none of them are wronged. What are these people usually? They are simply the ones who walked right into the line of fire. Think about it: you have been in the Communist Party for so many years, you have been mingling there for so many years, you should have a very good understanding and grasp of the Communist Party, right? In some cases, for instance, the safest group of people within the Communist Party are relatively... well, for example, people like me who do scientific research are relatively safer. But Xi Jinping is different. Look at how many academicians Xi Jinping has arrested; he has arrested many academicians. Xi Jinping is an exception, an exception. Take some people in the Academy of Military Sciences, for example—a large number of them were arrested. What was that? That was academic fraud. So the CCP... Xi Jinping is so furious and holding it in right now. Day after day, the CCP's loudspeakers are bragging about how good our technology is, how good our technology is. Our airplanes, to what extent have they reached? Our missile technology, to what extent has it reached? While bragging about these things, they arrest airplane design engineers, missile design engineers, radar engineers, and arrest all these people. So where is the main problem in arresting these people? These people generally would not be touched unless they encounter major scientific research accidents; only then will they take action and arrest them.

To give you an example, if an airplane flies out and you are supposed to reach a certain performance index, but it fails to reach that index, and their original data was all fabricated, they end up getting arrested, right? So these people are going to be reckoned with, reckoned with. Therefore, the only possible reason for these people to be reckoned with inside the CCP is technological fraud, scientific fraud, and academic fraud. So you see, within the CCP, they brag every day that our technology is great and our technology is very good. In fact, their real technology is completely different from the technology they brag about. I once told you all a story, an incident. More than twenty years ago, I had a driver, a driver who was originally from the East China Sea Fleet, a soldier. He was originally in the navy and was even a small leader, a small leader. Later, when this person returned to Shanghai and came to our company because he knew how to drive, hey, I thought it was pretty good. He also liked to follow me. Anyway, I said to President Hu, "Let him drive for me," and that was it. So he started driving for me. When I was chatting with him, I would often ask him: "You were in the East China Sea Fleet? What is the situation like over there?" He told me, he said: "He said the Chinese navy is not at all what outsiders think it is. First, navy corruption is extremely severe; second, the aging of warships and vessels is extremely severe, and there is no talk of any advanced scientific technology whatsoever; it's all just old traditions. Just think, for a military to be corrupted to this extent."

How could they possibly spend money on scientific research? How could they possibly spend money to invest in this stuff? They grab whatever bribes they can, trying to grab as much as possible. Those in the East China Sea Fleet... I went to Ningbo later, and I later verified this. You know the headquarters of the East China Sea Fleet in Ningbo is right in Ningbo, right in Ningbo. Do you know about the East China Sea Fleet? Do you know that nearly twenty years ago, almost twenty years ago, what do you think their biggest business was? Real estate. Can you guess? Real estate? Because they had many so-called military bases in Ningbo, these military bases... later on, after these places were developed and the land was swapped out—after the land on the ground was swapped out—they developed real estate. All these leaders of the East China Sea Fleet became bosses of real estate companies. They looked for real estate companies, found a company, and said, "I will cooperate with you, I have land to cooperate with you." So they did it in this form.

Using this form, they became shareholders, and shareholders divide the money among themselves. There was a real estate company in Ningbo, the largest real estate company, and I once told a story about its boss. I will tell the story today about this person. This person is called Xiong Xuqiang; everyone can search for him online. Xiong Xuqiang. I met him several times, met him several times. So he looked for me, came to look for me back then. What did he come to look for me for? Financing. At that time, I was working in finance. This person's name is Xiong Xuqiang: Xiong as in a bear, Xu as in continuing, and Qiang as in strong. You can tell just by searching online that he used to be the biggest boss in Ningbo and also ran Ningbo's biggest real estate company, called Yinying Group. Yin as in gold and silver treasures, Ying as in one hundred million or two hundred million. What I am talking about here—if you are from Ningbo, if you are from Zhejiang—you definitely know. Just search online, and you'll see he was a listed company. Do you know Xiong Xuqiang? He was actually the proxy for the East China Sea Fleet, the real estate proxy. He was very small-scale; he used to be the director of a cannery factory, and after the restructuring, he started doing real estate by himself, running a real estate company. He kept doing it, and he was even a fellow townsman of mine, from Zhouxiang, Yuyao. Yuyao... when I was having dinner with him, I felt that he was simply the white glove for the East China Sea Fleet at the time, the white glove for these officials.

Much of the land belonged to the East Sea Fleet. He engaged in real estate development, and when he lacked funds, he went through the banks. Just think, how booming the real estate market was back then! The military supported him; the military supported him by releasing more land, which was directly swapped with banks, and just like that, it was mortgaged, and he got the money straight away. He truly started from nothing, playing the 'empty-glove white wolf' (making a fortune out of thin air) strategy, and suddenly became the biggest player in all of Ningbo. Think about what kind of place Ningbo is. It is the place where private capital in China is most concentrated, the place with the largest concentration of it—Ningbo, right? Everyone knows Ningbo. He later became the biggest boss in Ningbo; Xiong Xuqiang was even ranked on the rich lists back then. He eventually collapsed over a decade ago. Do you know what happened when he collapsed over a decade ago? It was exactly when Xi Jinping was dealing with the East Sea Fleet. When he was dealing with the East Sea Fleet, Xiong Xuqiang's money all ended up in the pockets of the Xi family; it all went into the Xi family's pockets. At that time, Xiong Xuqiang's assets were worth tens of billions, tens of billions.

Just think about it, that's why later, when many people were talking about going to attack Taiwan, I told them, I told everyone, that was many years ago, when they talked about attacking Taiwan, I told them, I said it's impossible, you simply... My driver told me, he said, the corruption in the military exceeds the corruption in any other industry or government department in China. And what is their corruption like? Their corruption is like an independent kingdom; no one can control them. Only the Central Military Commission above can control them. As long as they bribe the Central Military Commission and keep stuffing them with money, no one can control them.

With this kind of military, you want to attack Taiwan? Look, it's been over twenty years, have they attacked Taiwan? They haven't attacked Taiwan at all. So, 'attacking Taiwan,' 'attacking Taiwan,' the so-called 'armed unification of Taiwan' is a pseudo-proposition; it's just a slogan to give the Little Pinks of the CCP a shot of adrenaline, just to stir them up.

Look at the current Defense Minister, look, he's gone missing again. I believe Dong Jun will very likely follow in the footsteps of Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, and eventually be arrested by Xi Jinping and thrown into prison. We don't know his situation now; for a month and a half, just think, a Defense Minister has disappeared for a month and a half, there's been no sound at all, and he is already in a state of being out of contact within the CCP, within the military. Everyone knows it in their hearts, but no one says anything. Now, the people inside the CCP don't talk about it, they don't talk about it. But someone has already leaked the news that Dong Jun is likely in a state of being out of contact, and something might have happened to him. Dong Jun. So, if, if Dong Jun is purged or arrested, then this will be the first military victim of Xi Jinping's comprehensive party governance this time; it might just be Dong Jun.

It might just be Dong Jun! Look at Dong Jun this time, there hasn't been a sound from him for this period, not a single sound. Alright, everyone keep an eye on Dong Jun and see if there is any news about him in the next couple of days. It's already been a month and a half, I'm giving everyone a reminder, a month and a half. And the news coming from within the military is that Dong Jun has already lost contact, he has already lost... it's just that no one can reach him. Where exactly he went, no one knows. Alright, thank you for watching, and we will see you in the next topic.