Xi Jinping is coming for Wen Jiabao! Fifth Plenary Session 'dragged out' 2.0: Did Liu Yandong die of fright? Li Qiang is out of the game! Xi is about to start a massacre of his own people! 21 Beijing tycoons publicly shamed online, China's population is finished! (Old Beijing Teahouse/Episode 1787/2026/10/28)
This episode mainly discusses the political atmosphere in Beijing around the Fifth Plenary Session, speculations regarding Xi Jinping's potential arrangement for Li Qiang to succeed him and his feigned power-sharing layout, rumors of Liu Yandong's passing and anti-Xi initiatives in universities, and analysis of state media releasing signals of severe purges targeting elder Wen Jiabao. It also reports on the Beijing Municipal Tax Service issuing tax notices to 21 natural persons regarding offshore trusts and publicly posting them online, as well as the aging crisis behind the latest dependency ratio data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
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As the saying goes, Xiao Yanshuang is a lone blade of grass; before the doors of the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing were even locked, General Clark, Commander of the U.S. Army Pacific under the Trump administration, had already slammed his cards on the table. What cards? The U.S. military has completed its deployment preparations in the Indo-Pacific theater for a war in the Taiwan Strait. Even if the CCP bandits attack Taiwan in 2027, the U.S. military can control the entire range on the first day. Could it be that Trump is giving a grand gift to Xi at the Fifth Plenary Session? A truly lavish gift. Actually, a week ago, the new rules for U.S. Army combat readiness had already blown the lid off: once a war starts in the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. forces stationed in the Indo-Pacific will engage in combat on the "first day of war," with long-range fires and multi-domain task forces concentrated and deployed to fill the first island chain of Kyushu, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Everything is ready. The CCP bandits' plan to attack Taiwan by force has been caught in a trap by the U.S. military; it seems they can only outsource it to the underworld, stage a minor car accident, and scare those who tell crosstalk.
A car accident, Huang Yihao was so amused he laughed, handing me a knife again. Everyone, let me ask you to guess: is this reckless general who lifts a rock only to drop it on his own feet, making a fool of himself, the one? Let's have an emergency poll: what role do you think Xi Jinping, who has steered the CCP state to the brink of collapse, really plays? Here are the options: 1. The biggest idiot; 2. A stupid, evil, and tyrannical last-generation party leader; 3. The Chief Accelerator, the number one destroyer of the CCP; 4. Xi's role still needs further observation. Quickly type your number in the comments section. Alright, back to the story, on the last day of the Fifth Plenary Session, Beijing was completely on edge, with every rustle of grass and tree sounding like an enemy soldier. A couplet even appeared: the first line, dark undercurrents surging inside the venue; the second line, every rustle of grass and tree sounding like an enemy soldier outside the venue; the horizontal scroll, it can't be covered up, the truth is about to leak.
During these days of the Plenary Session, police officers in Beijing's buses and subway cars are everywhere like ghosts, which is really an eyesore. The police force is more than abundant; there are at least four party police officers in a single subway carriage, acting tough to scare ordinary people's cats, and that's just inside the subway. Look at the subway stations again—they are packed with people, shoulder to shoulder, making it impossible to move an inch, with lines so long you can't see the end, acting tyrannically and lording it over everyone. To put it bluntly, trying to get into Beijing is harder than illegal smuggling. Is this an exaggeration? Not at all. According to the Beijing police report, a 47-year-old driver knew full well that his 46-year-old accomplice hadn't obtained a visa to enter Beijing, but wait, he willfully defied the law and went his own way, actually hiding the criminal in the truck cargo compartment at the Xiaotun checkpoint in Tongzhou in an attempt to sneak through, only to be caught on the spot by our wise and formidable black-clad police, and bam, placed under administrative detention. Look right here, it makes you want to puke. Is Xi the Steamed Bun scared shitless by assassins? Entering Beijing is harder than entering the imperial harem. Why do some people say that the party leader Xi Jinping is rash and brainless? With a tiny pellet of courage, isn't this because he's afraid that the Monkey King will blow on a hair and transform the whole world into armed warriors? It's infuriating, and the whole world at that. This guy who is both "stupid and vicious" really lives a tiring life. One reminder: the Communist Party's bureaucratic selection system is a reverse-selection paste vat. After being immersed in it for a long time, while foolish they are still somewhat smart, yet twisted. What does this mean? The wicked intentions of those who dare to fight and are good at fighting are certainly refined to flow more smoothly, and the meat grinder churns out crooked minds bent on internal strife.
Untalented as I, Li Zheng, am, I suddenly had a very strong intuition. Intuition? What intuition? I seem to have tasted the frequency resonating with the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress: this Plenary Session will stage a version 2.0 of Brother Tao Hu Jintao's ordeal—was Hu Jintao carried out again, coming to a meeting again? No, wait a minute, Brother Tao couldn't possibly come, he's lying in a hospital bed, that's a misunderstanding. Don't worry, listen to me sort it out slowly. Quick, let's review why Brother Tao was carried out last time. Why? Didn't they refresh the list of the Standing Committee and find that Hu Chunhua, who had been promised a spot, had disappeared? Exactly. In other words, the General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is dismissed as a two-hundred-and-fifty or an elementary school student, actually has a few tricks up his sleeve when it comes to playing people, putting on a show, engaging in intra-party struggles, and making a feint to the east while attacking in the west. Absolutely right, and seeing that Hu Jintao discovered this trick, he decisively called his bodyguards over and had him carried out. Completely correct. After all, Old Xi is someone who rose through the officialdom's reverse-selection mechanism, and various conspiracies can be played out to devastating, unexpected effects. You mean Old Xi is resorting to the same old tricks again this time, playing dirty once more? Major signs have already appeared. What signs? Think about it carefully. Xi Jinping, who treats the dragon throne as his life, suddenly has his vase-like number two, the never-favored Li Qiang, perform in various high-profile ways, giving the impression that taking over is a done deal. Even under Old Xi's personal leadership, they sometimes line up in the shape of the Chinese character for "person" (人), and sometimes in the shape of the character for "one" (一), and the wild geese are back again. In several major meetings, Old Xi intentionally led Li Qiang to walk in front, leaving a huge gap behind. For a supreme ruler who has long taken pleasure in crushing Li Qiang, don't you find this a bit strange? Well, it is a bit strange, but driven by absolute necessity, Old Xi might choose a temporary expedient. Bingo, I've been waiting for those four words: a temporary expedient. To put it bluntly, my premonition is that we cannot rule out the possibility that before the Plenary Session, Xi Jinping came under pressure from the party elders, so Old Xi lied again, claiming he was dividing up the power. Exactly, acting, fooling people, pacifying them, and making a false feint to achieve the perfect effect of making the anti-Xi forces emotionally stable and mistakenly believing that Old Xi has already caved in. How insidious!
However, regarding this act, let alone distributing roles to the Tuanpai (which is too much trouble), Xi simply let his own man, Li Qiang, play the stooge, while stepping up overseas leaks to continuously tout that Li Qiang is taking over. Meanwhile, Old Xi put on a living, breathing melodramatic show of helping Li Qiang ascend the throne—doesn't this turn Li Qiang into a prop? Can Li Qiang refuse? Of course not. Would you dare ask if he dares to cooperate? However Old Xi tells little Qiang to act, that's how he has to act. You know, this actually reminds me of something. Li Qiang acting so high and mighty this time indeed has some twisted aspects to it. Look at just a couple of days ago, when Kim Jong Un came to Dandong to cut the ribbon for the Sino-North Korean Yalu River Bridge. It was supposed to be Li Qiang who went to welcome him, but the party media completely shut Li Qiang out of the footage, not even mentioning him in text, and instead splashed photos of Wang Huning and Kim Fatty the Third all over the place. Ah, that's right. If the rumors of Li Qiang taking over were indeed deliberately leaked and fed by Xi Jinping, then that explains it. Xi never actually intended to cede power to Li Qiang; it was just a gesture needed to appease the party elders ahead of the Fifth Plenary Session. Even so, when Old Xi saw that Li Qiang was getting too into character and acting a bit too alive, he had to issue an emergency warning: What are you doing? Getting wild delusions! Listen to that—they won't even let little Qiang enjoy his acting. Tell me, isn't that torturing little Qiang? The General Secretary remarked that tormenting Li Qiang on a rainy day is better than having nothing to do. What kind of talk is that? So vicious! Wait, hold on. Who was dragged out of the venue at this Fifth Plenary Session? Could it be my relative Liu Yandong? One of the hypotheses has materialized. At 6:56 AM Eastern Time today, October 28, 2026, X account "Political and Economic Pseudo-Seat" posted that major news came out of the capital: Liu Yandong was scared to death. During Xi Jinping's first term, Li Keqiang was Premier, and Liu Yandong was the Vice Premier in charge of education. Before the Fifth Plenary Session, the Central Inspection Commission controlled by Old Xi announced inspections of the Ministry of Education and universities directly under its jurisdiction, pointing the spearhead directly at the supreme boss of educational corruption, Old Lady Liu. Upon hearing the news, she couldn't catch her breath and kicked the bucket. Oh my god, she was praised for being in excellent mental condition just back during the Spring Festival. No wonder the official announcement said Liu Yandong died at 14:53 in the afternoon, yet her husband Yang Yuanxing published the obituary just 7 minutes later! Strange, right? Even the writer Cui Chenghao frantically asked: Liu Yandong was a state-leader-level official; logically, shouldn't her obituary be uniformly released by state media? For the family to publish it before the state media is extremely rare and definitely treacherous, chaotic, and abnormal. It cannot be ruled out that Old Liu's husband had some kind of grievance, or even acted as a whistleblower, or intentionally wanted to block Old Xi and report it before covering it up—no way!
Wait, BUT, even if Liu Yandong hadn't suddenly passed away during the Fifth Plenary Session, it wouldn't affect Old Xi's domineering rhythm of playing for keeps with the retired leaders. Why is that? Because on the very first day of the Fifth Plenary Session, the party mouthpiece People's Daily had already published two heavyweight articles carrying an extremely strong smell of gunpowder and blood. What did they say? The first one made the front page, signed "Ren Zhongping" with a collective byline, titled "Perseveringly Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance over the Party on the New Journey." You know how it goes: starting from the Long March, highlighting the historical significance of the Zunyi Conference in establishing Mao Zedong's leadership position, and then making a sharp turn to emphasize upholding the core position of Steamed Bun Xi in order to comprehensively and strictly govern the party. The second article was signed by Wang Feng, titled "Scientifically Understanding the Great Achievements and Important Revelations of Comprehensively and Strict Governance over the Party in the New Era," focusing on Xi Jinping's political authority, the CCP's comprehensive leadership, the high-pressure stance against corruption, and consolidating the CCP's long-term grip on power. It's all about emphasizing Xi Jinping's core position, political loyalty, high-pressure anti-corruption, and the CCP's long-term rule. As I said earlier, before Hu Jintao was dragged out at the closing ceremony of the 20th Party Congress, it was Xi Jinping acting to fool Brother Tao, pretending that we would definitely let little Comrade Hu—Hu Chunhua—enter the Standing Committee, duping Brother Tao with a fake list. When it was exposed, Xi instantly flipped his face, revealing his ferocious nature, and had him dragged out right on the spot. This time, he again had his little sidekick act along with him for veterans like Wen Jiabao and other elders to see, pretending to hand over power. Before the other side could even stand up to question it, the People's Daily started pounding the blackboard and slamming the table on the very first day of the Fifth Plenary Session to scare the elders and the cats of the anti-Xi faction. Scaring Liu Yandong to death also prematurely triggered a joint anti-Xi petition from 14 universities including Peking University, Renmin University of China, Tongji University in Shanghai, and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Old Xi's move of inspecting and sorting out universities came first, followed by the joint university anti-Xi movement and Liu Yandong's sudden death—what a menacing momentum!
Moreover, a Beijing source exclusively revealed to the overseas Epoch Times, which corroborates my intuition: after the plenary session, Xi Jinping will launch a new round of purges among high-ranking officials, even intending to "clean house" among his own people, while simultaneously striking at elders who still wield influence. Xi does not allow anyone to become too powerful; Wang Qishan is a cautionary tale, and Cai Qi is no exception. Oh my god, he is really going after the political elders; it sends a chill down my spine! How is this so similar to when Hu Jintao was escorted out back then? It is all about lying and deceiving first to stabilize the political elders, and then suddenly revealing his ferocious nature, shouting for blood, and seeing who dares to act rashly under the tyranny of Xi the Steamed Bun. It scared the hell out of everyone; Xi the Steamed Bun kills whoever he targets, he has truly become the Executioner Emperor. The Epoch Times stated that a Beijing source close to the CCP high-level, using the pseudonym Meng Xing, exclusively revealed that Xi Jinping might take several actions after the conclusion of the Fifth Plenary Session: first, to purge high-ranking officials he previously promoted; second, to "strike at those old leaders who still have ideas" and "always want to show off their influence." Meng Xing also said that Xi Jinping will strike at some retired high-level officials who have political influence and frequently appear in public, like Wen Jiabao, who keeps coming out to participate in events and showing his face, always wanting to display his influence. Naming Wen Jiabao! Meng Xing also said that Xi Jinping's continuous adjustment of high-level personnel is an attempt to "play Mao Zedong's game" of power balancing, preventing any single subordinate from wielding too much independent power. Look, after his third term ends, when he immediately goes for a fourth term, many patterns will change to prevent you from becoming too powerful. What did you just say? A fourth term? Does the Steamed Bun really want to sit on the dragon throne until it wears out? Senior China observer and fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in the U.S., Mr. Willy Lam, stated today that the CCP's Fifth Plenary Session will pave the way for the 21st National Congress next year. Even if Xi Jinping's governance is criticized, he will still be re-elected as President of the State, General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 21st National Congress—three out of four, the dealer wins. It seems the "Number One CCP Destroyer's" foot is completely welded to the accelerator of the reversing car; fellow countrymen inside the Great Firewall, be careful. Alright, new tea friends, please click and hit the little bell. Welcome to join the teahouse's journey of tracking the great era, look at the world from a different angle with us brothers, and let your eyes brighten up. Note that subscribing is free, and pressing the subscribe button will bring you a continuous stream of laughter.
It is said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reached the point where the landlord has no surplus grain left, so it has begun to raise its sickle for indiscriminate harvesting. Here it comes again! In July, the State Taxation Administration in Beijing announced that it would strengthen the collection and administration of individual income tax on income related to offshore trusts. At the time, it seemingly thoughtfully set a 90-day transition period, giving people 90 days to borrow money. Yes! That is to say, those who declared and honestly paid their historical taxes before October 22 of this year would receive a big discount—what was it? The waiver of late payment penalties! It is as if the Party is letting you take advantage of a huge bargain. However, there are always people who harbor illusions, adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward this wave of harvesting by Mother Party, stubbornly insisting on not paying or making up the taxes before October 22. They are quite tough! Consequently, this group of wealthy people, with lightning speed, gloriously made it onto the tax bureau's blacklist on the deadline day, becoming the first to be slaughtered. On the afternoon of the 22nd, the Huairou District Tax Bureau of Beijing issued a public notice stating that it had served a "Tax Matters Notification" to 21 individuals, including a person named Chao, regarding the verification and notification of tax declaration for individual income tax on offshore trusts. Sorry, they went abroad, they were not there, and they did not receive it. The Huairou tax authorities had long prepared a golden sentence: starting from the date of the public notice, 30 days shall be deemed as served, perfectly choking back your excuse of "I didn't receive the notice"! The document also notified these 21 people that, in order to strengthen the management of individual income tax on offshore trusts, they should self-examine their establishment and participation in offshore trusts, and within 15 days, report relevant materials to the competent tax authority, which is the Second Tax Office of the Huairou District Tax Bureau in Beijing. If the money does not appear within 15 days, the 21 of you will be in for a rough time! Anyway, let's put it this way: publicly naming and shaming these 21 people on the internet has completely maximized the deterrent effect. Are there only 21 rich people left in the area? Fine, big data is posting notices everywhere; those who have money but won't spend it on Mother Party, come out quickly and accept the bloodletting service. A voice-over drifts from the horizon: Don't play tricks, pay taxes or be killed, Big Brother is watching you at all times, scaring the offshore trust babies to death! Scaring them to death is easy, but scaring them half to death is hard, really hard. Don't even think about it; since you are so uncooperative with the tax bureau's work and make the officials go to the trouble of naming you, won't you be tortured to death when you go to submit the materials? You won't even have a chance to kowtow. It's hard to say, the document has already shouted murderously at the end: if you fail to submit relevant materials or fail to declare and pay individual income tax on time, the tax authorities will deal with you in accordance with laws and regulations. Here, "deal with" is synonymous with "execute"; at best, you will lose a large fortune, and at worst, you will face imprisonment. You fine me, I laugh, get it? Losing a fortune means not only paying the taxes truthfully but also paying late fees and fines. The standard for late fees is calculated daily from the date of overdue payment, with a daily rolling calculation of 0.05% of the overdue tax amount, which is an annualized interest rate of about 18.25%—it is definitely loan sharking! It's more than 18%; when Huang Shiren lent money at high interest, it only came to 12.5%. Who does Huang Shiren think he is? Can he compare with the Party's sickle? Choked on that, didn't I. The fines are also particularly simple and brutal; in addition to recovering the payable taxes and late fees, a fine of 0.5 to 5 times the unpaid or underpaid tax amount will be imposed. 5 times? What's wrong with 5 times? Just be happy! If the tax bureau wants to kill the chicken to scare the monkey and defines certain wealthy people as having "committed the crime of tax evasion," sorry, 3 to 7 years of fixed-term imprisonment is waiting for you. You're going in just like that? What did you think?
The question is, what about those people, like failed investors, who truly cannot come up with this money? There are so many such people, what to do? Gritting their teeth and stamping their feet, they accept it: trading time for money, serving out a full prison sentence, and eating prison meals! Do you think that's the end of it? What does that mean? Serving time is not enough, absolutely not! Going to prison is only the first step; after release, a series of punitive measures will begin to serve you. It's over! First, travel restrictions (limitation on high-end consumption); second, exit control (prohibition on leaving the country); third, compulsory enforcement against the only remaining property under your name, with all sorts of closures, suspensions, mergers, transitions, splitting, and restructuring. They want to drive you to total extinction! Therefore, the vast majority of tycoons still haven't realized the determination and strength of Xi Jinping's "common prosperity." According to estimates by the Boston Consulting Group, Chinese offshore wealth amounts to $1.7 trillion. With such a huge chunk of fat placed right there, not taking a big bite out of it would be letting down the ruffian party spirit of the Communist Party. Completely finished! Those who didn't learn from Pan Shiyi to run early and jump ship early are now regretting it deeply. Consequently, this once glamorous group is setting off a wave of scrambling to raise cash, raising ransom money for the Party. Deutsche Welle interviewed several professionals; one lawyer said clients wanted to use stock market losses to deduct taxes, but the authorities wouldn't allow it; meanwhile, real estate developers who received massive dividends in past years now face a sluggish property market and weak financial conditions, making them unable to pay the taxes they owe—they can't even pay off mountains of debts, let alone have money for taxes! An assistant to a tech billionaire stated that more time is now spent calculating taxes than making deals, and they are selling half of their stock investment portfolio, biting the bullet to cut losses and leave. A private banker at a major international bank said the bank is currently offering loans to private clients to help them pay taxes, with the collateral restricted to shares in their own companies—the shares belong to the Party, so please let the Party harvest them. Do you see that? Xi Jinping raises the banner of "common prosperity": poor people "take out loans to pay social security," and the rich also "take out loans to pay social security." Equality arrives very suddenly, regardless of whether you are a small leek or a big leek, a thin leek or a fat leek. As long as the Party's sickle swings, can good days be far behind? If you don't trust the Communist Party, hurry up and run out of the crematorium. You need to pick up the pace, as the end of the year is indeed fast approaching.
As the sickle swings and the leeks disappear, the General Secretary issues a soulful question: "Why aren't you having a third child yet?" Have your own big ghost! Speaking of which, the National Bureau of Statistics certainly knows how to present auspicious omens. Seeing the General Secretary upset over the "one hundred days without children" policy, they immediately submitted [Good News]: The old-age dependency ratio in our awesome country has officially exceeded the child dependency ratio for the first time! Pop the champagne, pop the champagne! I'm almost ready to vomit—using big words like dependency ratio to fool elementary school students, knowing that Old Xi can't understand it. Actually, translated into plain talk, what does it mean? It means the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state has even fewer newborns. With this contrast from peers, there are more elderly people. Understood, it naturally follows that the support burden on the prime of life is even heavier. That's right, the so-called "dependency ratio," also known as the "dependency coefficient," refers to the ratio of the non-working-age population under 14 and over 65 to the working-age population aged 15-64 in the total population. Better not explain it; understanding it easily leads to a stroke! To put it intuitively, if the dependency ratio is 50%, that means 2 working people support 1 non-working person, and this combination can survive. Unfortunately, two adults in the CCP state now have to support four elderly people and one to three children. It wouldn't be bad if this number didn't reach 250%! The Bureau of Statistics says: Shut up! If stroke lovers are scared to disability, will you compensate? I refuse! Refusing to listen to this attitude from the Bureau of Statistics, aren't they starting to fabricate dependency ratio Arabic numerals blindly again? This person can do mental arithmetic, finished! On October 25, First Financial cited data from the "China Statistical Yearbook 2026" after being water-injected, beautified, face-slimmed, and filtered by the CCP Bureau of Statistics, stating that the total dependency ratio nationwide in 2025 was 45.1%. How much? 45.1%? On average, two laborers support less than one old, weak, sick, or disabled person, and our country is right in the "demographic dividend zone"? Huh? How dare you brag like that without fear of being struck by lightning! The National Bureau of Statistics says: What rough language are you using? We civilized people cannot bear to listen. Bah! Stop sickening us with the three words "civilized people," will you? Seeing that the Party-State is in the demographic dividend period, this person is envious, jealous, and hating, completely dizzy. Let you envy properly, did you know? The total dependency ratio of a country between 35% and 50% is the healthiest and most dividend-rich range, and our awesome country is exactly 45.1%. Fake! Sooner or later the flaws will show! They have already shown. So fast? Because a healthy dependency ratio should have the child dependency ratio slightly higher than the old-age dependency ratio. What about the CCP state? Our awesome country has crossed this red line! Did the Bureau of Statistics fall asleep? No, working overtime to beautify, these are already the prettiest Arabic numerals! How pretty? In 2025, China's child dependency ratio was 22%, and the old-age dependency ratio was 23.1%, 1.1% higher than the child dependency ratio. There's no help for it, all employees of our Bureau of Statistics have tried their best, forcibly dragging the year when the Party-State's old-age dependency ratio exceeded the child dependency ratio for the first time to this year; it was actually inverted long ago. How do you know? Frustrating, you can figure it out with your heels! This person's heels can think about problems. Spill the beans, hey, spill the beans, let me give you the solid truth, our awesome country is getting older and older, so old that its teeth are about to fall out. This is why the second child policy was fully relaxed in 2026. Is the third child any use? The cold food has already gone cold! Not only has the general trend of newborns not warmed up, but the rate of decrease is getting faster and faster. The Steamed Bun Emperor's government urges marriage and childbirth, stopping just short of legalizing the pornography industry, and the three words remain: "No use!" The "ten-no youth" the final generation, it would be a wonder if it were of any use! From 2021 to 2025, China's annual number of births plummeted from 10.62 million to 7.92 million according to our beautified numbers, a drop of 25.4%. And this is still the beautified number, the number one destroyer of the CCP is leading the way by far! Hey, win-win.
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