Beijing Is Under Tight Control! Xi Jinping Is Carrying Out Mass Arrests of Senior CCP Officials

The video primarily reports on a large-scale round of arrests among officials currently underway in Beijing, involving members and alternate members of the CCP Central Committee ahead of the upcoming 20th CCP Central Committee Fifth Plenary Session to be held at the Jinji Hotel. Anchor Hu Liren points out that Xi Jinping has deployed the Central Guard Bureau and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) to monitor and arrest high-ranking officials amid the power transition. He also analyzes the systemic risks faced by CCP officials due to corruption and political charges, while mentioning traffic controls around Beijing as well as severe domestic economic and inflation pressures.

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Hello, viewers and friends! Reporting some news to you all. Right now—today, in fact—news is coming out of Beijing. Right now, various government branches in Beijing are under tight surveillance by Xi Jinping, who is arresting several high-ranking CCP officials. This time, it appears to be a massive round of arrests. This tone was actually set before Xi Jinping went to the United States; in fact, certain name lists already existed back then. So.

Regarding the Fifth Plenary Session, in December—held from October 26 to 29 at the Jinji Hotel. Jinji Hotel is located west of Zhongnanhai, less than ten kilometers to the west. It is within the Third Ring Road. Jinji Hotel is not a hotel open to the public; it is quite tall, with nearly thirty floors, consisting of several buildings. Now, as for Jinji Hotel...

I often pass by this place. Jinshi Hotel—this place is a hotel affiliated with the Central Military Commission, a hotel under very strict surveillance. Now, to what extent has it reached for many CCP officials? They dare not attend this meeting; they dare not go. Now some people are raising the point that.

At present, the CCP has roughly over 200 members on the Central Committee—around two hundred and some odd full members. Then there are alternate members, numbering around 150. Combined, that makes over 300 people. In addition, there are some non-voting attendees. The total number of participants for the entire 20th CCP Fifth Plenary Session—that is, the fifth plenary session—will be around 400 people. I estimate that at least around 50 people will be arrested this time.

Many of these individuals are full members or alternate members of the Central Committee. Right now, these high-ranking officials within the Communist Party's internal ranks have also become a "slaughter list," turning into a "slaughter list." Therefore, I have always said that within the CCP system, once you enter this system, your life and death are no longer decided by you. Within this system, you are being pushed along by others.

With superiors telling you to do certain things, you must do them. Once you do them, you have effectively entered their system and joined their team. You have to take a side! Therefore, the Communist Party as a group—this group of theirs is an evil syndicate that takes many people who were originally decent folk, and once you enter this system, you ultimately end up as evildoers. Once you become an evildoer, you no longer have any safety to speak of.

So now, Xi Jinping, he is about to fall, he is about to fall. Right now, in the midst of this power transition, he needs to do something very big. Look at the Cultural Revolution. Look at the Cultural Revolution. When the Cultural Revolution was launched, Mao was in his early seventies, maybe seventy-one or seventy-two, which is about the same age as Xi Jinping now. It's about the same age. Actually, when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, the first reason was that he himself wanted to...

He wanted to establish his own status and take down all of his political opponents. That was the first thing. The second thing is that when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, there was another point, which is the same as Xi Jinping now: during a power transition, you have to get rid of those old people. Those old people, those old people—don't look at Wang Huning now, or those people in the NPC or the CPPCC, these people will all be targets for purging in the future. Not one of them can escape, not one of them can escape.

Including those with stains on their fingers, those from the Deng family, those from the Jiang family, including those from the Jiang family who are still in office, or those you have heard of, for example, Zeng Qinghong—none of these people can escape. Hu Jintao, whoever, as long as you are alive, he will get rid of you.

This is Xi Jinping's strategy now, this is his strategy! Therefore, news coming out of Beijing these past two days is that Beijing is actually already arresting people, arresting people in large numbers. These lists, the lists of people from the Central Security Bureau, might already exist—who is who—so everyone is living in constant fear.

Now these people cannot escape; they have long been under surveillance, right? I once mentioned, how many people were in the Central Security Bureau back then? It increased from 10,000 to 70,000. What are these 70,000 people for? They are actually there to monitor these high-ranking CCP officials. Those who were able to escape back then, if you weren't under surveillance yet, but you were able to escape, that was the luckiest of the unlucky. I have met these people before. I once talked about a deputy minister of the Organization Department, a former deputy minister of the Organization Department—I won't mention the specific name—he was one who escaped.

He escaped, and those who escaped are very few. Now, in all of China, all business jets are grounded, all grounded. Look at the extent to which Beijing has reached. In Beijing, all aviation equipment cannot—except for civil aviation, except for current civil flights that can still take off, other flights within a 300-kilometer radius, look, a 300-kilometer radius, nothing can fly. Even in Shijiazhuang, you can't, no aircraft, ordinary aircraft cannot fly.

Roads, all checkpoints and roads, are all guarded by the military. It seems, this military, it looks like now that you are in Beijing, you have to prepare for inspections. Now, entering Beijing, business vehicles entering Beijing have to pull over for inspection. Entering and leaving Beijing, everything has to be checked, completely different from before, completely different. These past two days, they have been arresting people. I estimate, there is news coming out of Beijing now, they might have already caught...

It is this, the Fifth Plenary Session, up to the Fifth Plenary Session, this, the 26th, the whole two weeks might just be a time of arrests, a time of arrests. These are all the Communist Party! Look, if you follow the Communist Party to the end, this is the result. So, everyone remember, if you still have—if you still have people who are still trying to climb up, you must not climb up. A person's wealth in a lifetime is used...

It is limited. The higher you climb, the higher your risk, because the more power you are involved with, the greater the power involved, the bigger the project, and the bigger the project, you might—a single decision of yours could involve hundreds of millions. A single project could be hundreds of millions. Don't think that this power, this power is actually just bombs hanging on you, one bomb after another, and at any time this bomb will explode. The further you are from power, the safer you are; the closer you are to power, the higher your risk.

Anything you do within the Communist Party, these things can actually lead to you being sentenced to life imprisonment, life imprisonment. Think about it, if you are involved in a project, and this project is a project worth hundreds of millions, a project worth hundreds of millions! If you talk about, if you are involved in kickbacks, it might be 10 percent, 20 percent. At the very least, 10 or 11 percent is 10 million. I have been involved in many projects in China, people I am familiar with were involved in many of these Communist Party engineering projects at the time. Let's just talk about engineering projects, just these engineering projects.

The money the Communist Party embezzles, for every project, the money embezzled at each level, for every project, is at least 25 percent. That is to say, if this project is worth 1 billion, a project worth 1 billion, the money taken from top to bottom, the money taken by officials at each level, is that much.

At the very least, two to five billion, at the very least 250 million, has been wiped out. Ten billion, at the very least 2.5 billion. Think about it. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party gets rich by killing, the Party gets ordinary people impoverished to death, the Chinese Communist Party gets rich by killing. Furthermore, what has the entire Chinese economy reached now? You might think that real estate has seemingly taken a loss, for example, Evergrande alone lost tens of thousands of billions.

In fact, all companies in China related to real estate or infrastructure projects—China State Construction Engineering, China Railway, and whatever else—all suffer losses in the tens of trillions. And who ultimately fills these losses? It is the ordinary people. China's current ordinary people and China's future ordinary people—meaning the present of China's ordinary people—perhaps you haven't been affected yet, or you are affected to some extent, but in the future all these losses will have to be paid by your descendants. The money earned through the hard labor of your descendants, inherently, for example, you could have earned two thousand US dollars a month, but now you can only get five hundred US dollars, three hundred US dollars.

In the future, this money will all have to be used to fill the gap. How to fill it? It is filled through inflation! In the future, the money of China's ordinary people will no longer be money. You already understand this by now, right? I remember when I left China in 2018, prices weren't that severe back then. Prices are high now, so people's living costs are high now! In the past, ordinary people in China, let me give you an example, ten years ago, if you were in Shanghai, as an ordinary worker working in a unit, your monthly salary was four to five thousand yuan, and you could barely survive.

Maybe if you spent a little less you would still have some savings, but now if ordinary people in China get three to five thousand yuan, you simply cannot survive on three to five thousand yuan. Eating a meal—perhaps just an ordinary bento—might cost twenty or thirty yuan now, whereas ten yuan used to cover it. What are all these things? These are all real, and this proves that inflation is already very severe.

Now, based on what I understand, I often chat and converse with some friends back in the mainland. During our chats, you can see that prices in China are very extreme right now, so many cities can no longer survive, and people are leaving. Therefore, the Party—now you see Xi Jinping using what as a pretext? One is corruption, and the second is politics. There are political crimes now, right? Including Zhang Youxia, who actually committed a political crime, exactly.

Retribution is destroying the system of ultimate responsibility for the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Look at Zhang Youxia, that's how it is. Now there are dual crimes, one is a political crime, and one is an economic crime. Therefore, this time, Xi Jinping is carrying out a massive wave of arrests across the officialdom in Beijing. Some officials in Beijing currently estimate that this will involve at least around 50 to 100 people being arrested.

These are all senior executives, all senior executives. What kind of people are involved? That is, members of the Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee. Meaning that out of these 350 people, at least 50 to 100 people might be replaced and arrested. However, this meeting itself is a closed-door meeting; there is no live broadcast, there will be no live broadcast. This has always been the case. The 5th Plenary Session, whichever Plenary Session it is, generally happens once a year. Last year's 4th Plenary Session seemed to be held in October of last year as well.

Every October, the location is a business hotel, just a business hotel. Driving from Zhongnanhai, it takes about ten minutes to get there, very close. Driving west, down Chang'an Avenue, driving to a place called Fuxing Road, it seems, seemingly that place, as Chang'an Avenue extends further. I am relatively familiar with Beijing because I stayed and lived in Beijing for about a few years.

Therefore, when we watch the 5th Plenary Session being held, which people might have disappeared? Some of these people might be taken by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI); the CCDI will continuously arrest these people and take them in. Right now it's not certain, it's not certain whether announcements will be made immediately that this person was arrested or that person was arrested. After being taken in, they will first have you locked up for a few months, and then step by step you will gradually be released, but these people have disappeared, vanished.

Therefore, this is... these people, these people actually all got what they deserved, they got what they deserved.

Having spent the greater part of their lives working inside the Communist Party all the way to such high official positions, as an ordinary person you could have lived in peace, even if economic conditions were a bit poor, you could still eat secure meals, fearless of ghosts knocking on your door outside, unafraid of ghosts knocking at midnight. Now, for these people, whenever there is the slightest sound of a police siren outside, whenever someone suddenly calls them.

People are trembling all over, and there is no way to escape these things. Wen Zhongbing, Wen Zhongbing, they are going after these people; the Central Guard Bureau is coming to arrest you. Nowadays, arrests are made by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection bringing people from the Central Guard Bureau to take you away. When they want to arrest you, you won't even know it. You might be in a meeting or working normally when they just take you away directly. Some are even taken away right from the meeting venue. The entire Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is currently in a state of red terror; everyone is afraid. You never know—perhaps Wang Huning will be arrested tomorrow, and you wouldn't have a clue.

He can arrest whoever he wants. If he feels that you might pose a threat to his power in the future, he will arrest you. This is the situation in Beijing right now; this is the situation in Beijing. Friends in Beijing, you need to be careful. Look at this period of time—if you have connections within the official system in Beijing, go and see if the people around you, if your superiors, have been arrested. It is very possible that you are working normally today, and tomorrow you might just disappear. Alright, I will stop here for this topic. Thank you all for watching, and see you in the next episode.