Major Shakeup in the CCP Central Military Commission: Will Xi Jinping Abandon Zhang Shengmin? From a Duo to an Octet! Tuberculosis Screening at a Liaoning High School Uses Shared Needles; Huawei Enters the 'Instant Medicine' Market! Did Chinese Spy Huang Le Entrap Jensen Huang? (Old Beijing Teahouse/Episode 1791/2026/11/01)
This episode mainly explores rumors about future personnel changes in the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Zhang Shengmin's situation, the medical and health hazards as well as official report controversies triggered by shared needles during tuberculosis screening among high school students in Kangping County, Liaoning, public concerns over Huawei's announcement of entering the "fast-acting medicine" sector, and the espionage controversy sparked by U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring Chinese businesswoman Huang Le and her contacts with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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Many commentators say that the sole big winner of the 5th Plenary Session of the CCP Central Committee is Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman Zhang Shengmin, because he not only kept his seat as CMC vice chairman, but was also successfully promoted and co-opted as a member of the CCP Politburo. This is like a temporary bystander suddenly being promoted to a full official position, restoring the traditional standard structure where the CMC vice chairman concurrently serves as a Politburo member. Pay close attention: [mid-term co-option] of Politburo members in the Central Committee is extremely rare in modern CCP political history. The last time was 32 years ago at the 4th Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee in September 1994, when then-Shanghai Mayor Huang Ju was co-opted into the Politburo—and he was a diehard crony of Jiang the Toad. Coupled with the fact that Zhang Shengmin is one of only two remaining survivors from the new CMC leadership team formed after the 20th National Congress—the other being Xi Jinping himself—his nickname as the military purge's 'tumbler doll' has spread widely. But is the real situation really so optimistic? Independent political commentator Cai Shenkun stated that Zhang Shengmin's future may not be so rosy. It cannot be ruled out that Xi Jinping is merely using Zhang Shengmin as a pair of work gloves to do dirty work, which will be tossed away instantly once no longer needed. Doesn't this prospect make one feel a bit overwhelmed? Could it be that Zhang Shengmin's inherent 'carrying a bow' flaw makes Xi Jinping, a 'true man,' wary of him? Liu Zhuo will sort it all out with you.
Speaking of which, following the conclusion of the 5th Plenary Session, the leadership personnel layout of the communist military immediately became a hot topic. There is one rather shocking detail: while Zhang Shengmin was indeed promoted to Politburo member, but, but, but... the Central Military Commission surprisingly did not add a single vice chairman or CMC member. For a national supreme military command of a country possessing a so-called 'massive army' to be missing five out of seven seats long-term, unable to even get a full table going, what on earth is hidden behind this? Independent media personality Zeng Zheng recently broke the news that the personnel list for the new CMC of the 21st National Congress has surfaced. Apart from Xi Jinping and Zhang Shengmin remaining in office, a new CMC vice chairman is about to be named, and the heads of the four major departments as well as the secretary of the CMC Discipline Inspection Commission will also join the CMC. In other words, Xi Jinping seems to be considering expanding the seven-member CMC to eight, or even further changing how CMC members and standing committee members are selected. If this leak is accurate, then the top military leadership changes at the 21st Congress won't just be about swapping out a few faces, but will involve a total reshuffle of the entire military power structure.
Independent current affairs commentator Cai Shenkun conducted a long-term review. He believes that Zhang Shengmin has been carrying out investigations and purges within the military strictly according to Xi Jinping's intentions. Since the 20th National Congress, a large number of high-ranking generals have fallen one after another, leading to major changes in the military's original leadership structure. Under the current circumstances, Xi Jinping still needs Zhang Shengmin. Before the 21st National Congress, the military still needs to continue investigating which generals are connected to previously fallen senior officers and who maintains close relationships with whom; everyone has to pass the scrutiny one by one. Zhang Shengmin still bears the task of vetting military personnel adjustments for the 21st National Congress. Zhang Shengmin's promotion to a member of the Politburo this time is, on the one hand, Xi Jinping's reward for his previous purges in the military, and on the other hand, a requirement for him to complete the final cleanup work. However, Cai Shenkun is not optimistic about Zhang Shengmin's future. He noted that Zhang Shengmin might merely be an executor needed by Xi Jinping during the current transition phase. Once the new military leadership team for the 21st National Congress is assembled, Xi may not necessarily be willing to let him retain core power in the Military Commission, and even less likely to allow him to build up his own faction in the military.
In addition, the Chief Advisor at Tamkang University's Center for Cross-Strait Relations Studies analyzed that August 1, 2027 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CCP's military. However, there are currently only about 6 active-duty full generals, with an estimated vacancy of 33 to 34 full general positions, which looks extraordinarily embarrassing. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the CCP might launch a new, accelerated round of "general promotions" in December this year, gradually filling the vacancies and completing the command hierarchy before the military's centennial next year. Sifting through candidates to find generals Xi Jinping can trust has clearly become an extremely important and arduous task for Xi before the 21st National Congress. After all, frankly speaking, Old Xi trusts no one, so this process will be extremely nerve-wracking. Currently, many people are asking whether Zhang Shengmin, the only one who hasn't been purged, is a trusted veteran whom Old Xi relies on, or someone he needs to guard against. On the surface, Zhang Shengmin seems to be Old Xi's favorite, but Taiwanese scholars do not think so. What do they think? Zhang Shengmin's expertise is not in fighting wars at all; he mainly assists Old Xi with internal purges in the military. Appointing him to the Politburo this time, aside from balancing the military's status in the party and government system, looks more like a functional arrangement for the current stage. Never assume he will become a core figure in the future military personnel layout. To put it bluntly, a tool is still just a tool no matter how much face you give him. The Military Commission's delay in filling positions itself shows that Xi Jinping is still indecisive, so the possibility of adjustments to the highest military leadership structure cannot be ruled out. Going forward, we need to observe whether Xi Jinping will inspect troops recently, whether the Military Commission will add vice chairmen with combat backgrounds, and most critically, whether Emperor Steamed Bun will suddenly remember the prophecy trope of "carrying a bow on one's back" one day, and whether Zhang Shengmin will follow the old path of He Weidong and Zhang Youxia because of this. Let's do a quick poll: Do you think Zhang Shengmin, the current Vice Chairman of the CCP Central Military Commission, will end up well? 1. Yes, 2. No, 3. Currently indescribable, future unpredictable, anything is possible. Hurry up and type your number in the comment section.
On the so-called educational front, the CCP has a slogan: "No matter how poor we are, we cannot skimp on education; no matter how hard it is, we cannot suffer our children." In reality, however, the future hope of the country's next generation has been repeatedly treated by the Party as various experimental fields—dumping everything onto them: various exorbitant fees, low-quality school uniforms, toxic food, toxic textbooks, toxic chicken soup of loving the Party and country, prison-style management, ill-intentioned free physical exams and blood draws, and signing organ donation agreements. Now there is even cross-infection from shared needles. They are running wildly down the track of ruining children. On October 27, a absurd piece of news emerged when Kangping County High School in Shenyang, Liaoning was conducting tuberculosis screenings on students: "many students shared a single needle." The news was so absurd that it made people wonder if we are living in 2026 BC. At the same time, even more explosive rumors circulated that among the screened students, some were carriers of viruses like HIV and syphilis. Panic escalated, and enraged parents gathered at the school to confront the administrators. Intense arguments broke out between parents and school officials during the confrontation, with multiple Kangping police (Public Security) officers and a large group of security guards on standby at the scene. Video showed the entire auditorium packed with parents, and a female official in charge admitted on-site that multiple students had indeed shared a single needle. At the time, she even verified with someone beside her, saying that these 200-plus people definitely shared a needle with others—please remember this number, 200. The solution she proposed was to first arrange blood tests for the students for HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and other items to see if cross-infection had occurred.
The problem is that under the party-state system, it has always been self-criticism and self-inspection, with a single department holding multiple roles—acting as both athlete and referee. Who then can guarantee that the test results are objective and fair? By the way, speaking of this, a popular science explanation is necessary: the average incubation period of AIDS (HIV infection) is 8 to 10 years, and the scientific community generally considers the overall range to vary from 2 to 10 years, or several months to 15-20 years. The main feature of the incubation period is having no features—that is, no obvious symptoms, appearing the same as a healthy person on the outside, and able to work and live normally. Netizens in the know pointed out that the window periods for detecting AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C vary; a negative test result shortly after exposure to a virus does not completely rule out the risk of infection, and follow-up retesting and monitoring should still be conducted based on professional medical advice. X blogger "Mr. Jiang" was even more professional, pointing out that even for superficial injections like PPD skin tests for tuberculosis screening, once a needle touches skin or trace amounts of blood and is then used on the next person, there exists a risk of [blood-borne pathogen cross-infection]. The main hazards include hepatitis B, hepatitis C, AIDS, syphilis, and other blood-borne pathogens, all of which can be transmitted through contaminated needles. This incident at Kangping High School, where "multiple people shared a single needle," already constitutes a "severe violation of medical operational standards" and could cause uncontrollable cross-infection. If some children find themselves feeling unwell months or even years later, no one will take responsibility for them, which would be a catastrophic disaster for the children and their families. However, for the Party and the government, this instead creates job opportunities for a few more petition-interceptors; the Party "wins big" again. After all, in the long process of dealing with various petitioner groups, our Party has developed rich experience in struggle. In the 1990s Henan blood disaster, over a million people were infected with AIDS and more than a hundred thousand died; at the time, it was suppressed directly, and even after it was exposed later, no official was held accountable. In Liaoning, the emergence of a mere few innocent children infected with AIDS is an affair so small it couldn't be smaller. Therefore, under the party-state's guiding philosophy of "minimizing major issues and dismissing minor ones," the whitewashing official report arrived, stating as follows.
On October 29, the investigation team for tuberculosis screening work in Kangping County issued a situation report stating that Kangping County Senior High School organized students to undergo routine skin allergy screening for tuberculosis. During the screening, a medical worker violated the "one person, one needle" operational standard. After careful investigation, a total of 78 students were involved. Wait a second, do you still remember the number mentioned by that female official in the video? 200 people confirmed to have shared needles with others—whether the cover was blown or the female official in the video made a slip of the tongue, you'll just have to savor the details for yourself. The report also said that special testing has currently been conducted for all 78 involved students, and all test results showed no abnormalities. Then the special investigation team familiar to everyone appeared, claiming they would conduct a comprehensive investigation and strictly handle violations in accordance with laws and regulations, blah blah blah. Looking at the official report overall, the key point is that the test results for all 78 people were normal, with the implied message being that if you contract AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C in the future, we take no responsibility whatsoever. End of report. As for which entity conducted this tuberculosis test, what its full name is, whether the person injecting the students was a temporary worker from an outsourced medical checkup company, whether other medical personnel or school teachers were present on site, and why no one called a stop after so many people were injected—these key questions are nowhere to be found, nowhere, nowhere. Passed.
Speaking of Huawei, which leads by far and just used its cosmic-scale momentum from the "Maextro V800 brake pedal breaking three times in a row" incident to take first place in the "quick-built cars" race, it immediately announced without taking a breath that it is dipping its toes into the pharmaceutical industry. As soon as the news came out, netizens began trembling in fear. What's going on? Is it because they think quick-built cars aren't harming people fast enough, so they urgently need "quick-built drugs" to hit the market? Huawei had already let it be known long ago: We will overtake on the curve at breakneck speed to produce all kinds of medicines for the people. Whether you dare to take them or not, we damn well dare to make them. On October 24, at the 11th China Healthcare Investment Conference, Fan Jie, president of Huawei's Pharmaceutical Corps, confirmed that Huawei has already entered the pharmaceutical industry. Fan Jie seemed to try to reassure the pharmaceutical industry, saying Huawei is an AI enabler for the healthcare industry, not coming to steal business from drug companies. Huawei doesn't make drugs, nor does it develop drug pipelines; it only provides computing power, storage, networking, toolchains, and data governance capabilities to drug companies, research institutions, and AI drug enterprises. In other words, Huawei only does one thing: You guys are responsible for inventing new drugs, and I'm responsible for making that invention process a bit faster and a bit cheaper. Doesn't this rhetoric have a familiar ring to it? That's right. Back when Huawei entered the new energy vehicle track, it promoted itself the exact same way: We don't build cars, we only provide technical support to car companies. But in reality? Huawei partnered with multiple car companies in quick succession, launching a vast array of models under Aito, Luxeed, and Maextro (all that's missing now is Hades), while deeply participating in their sales and promotion. Huawei signaled that when these vehicles frequently suffer fatal accidents, only then does our power of leading by far truly show itself. Furthermore, in the process of building a bigger and stronger national enterprise, Huawei developed a complete stability maintenance protocol: legal team intervention, silencing public opinion, and suppressing victims, ultimately shutting up numerous car owners with nowhere to seek justice. Just tell me if you're impressed or not. As for boiling public anger, a single sentence shuts you down: Give the national enterprise time to grow. If you keep causing trouble, one question will be put to you: Are you unpatriotic? Why else do you keep handing knives to foreign forces? Now, seeing Huawei muscle into the pharmaceutical industry, public opinion worries that similar tragedies will repeat in the pharmaceutical field. And this is no small matter. Because the pharmaceutical industry directly connects to patients' lives, it's not a localized disaster where brakes fail and a few people burn to death; when the time comes, it could be indiscriminate harm. Why say this? Let's take a look at how this far-ahead Pharmaceutical Corps launches its pie-in-the-sky promises. In mid-May this year, Huawei let it be known that the curse of the pharmaceutical industry—"ten years to polish one drug"—is being shattered by AI. Back then, at a manufacturing industry summit in Hefei, Anhui Province, an executive from the [Huawei Manufacturing and Enterprise Corps] sounded insanely arrogant, saying: Some drug companies say doing experiments takes 4 weeks and their goal is to shorten it to 1 week first. I asked them back: Why not one day? Why not one hour? In fact, technically it's not impossible to achieve; you just have to step out of your cognitive limits and dare to try. We really must timidly ask: Who bears the cost of these "quick-built drugs" made by stepping out of cognitive limits and daring to try? Thinking with your heel, it certainly won't be the heavenly nobility, nor high-ranking officials—they use imported original brand-name drugs for free. The rich can also be ruled out—they can afford it and pay out of pocket for imported drugs. So who is left? The cattle and horses, the leeks, the human mines. I timidly raise my hand: It's me, it's me, it's still me. The person in the experimental field is me, the person who is never happy is me, the one being taken for a ride is me, the one paying the price is me, the one driving quick-built cars is me, the one taking quick-built drugs is me, and the one being insulted and harmed is me, me, still me.
Netizens inside the Wall are having none of it. On October 29, in the comments section of an article on NetEase, the editor quietly let things slide. Someone spoke up for Huawei, saying: Other drug companies developing a drug have to do Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials; we can make three drugs simultaneously in Phase 1. Then someone cracked a joke: If you get side effects from taking medicine in the future, be careful! You must check clearly whether it's Huawei's medicine. If it's Huawei's medicine, then it's a malicious side effect, and you'll have to endure it yourself. In the future, only taking Harmony Smartherb or Harmony Pharm makes you patriotic, otherwise you're a traitor. On the overseas X platform, netizens were even more unrestrained in their harsh criticism: I've seen this episode before. The later plot goes like this: Harmony Smartherb has Ask-Pharm, Enjoy-Pharm, and Royal-Pharm, producing three types a year. If a problem occurs, they say it's Dongfeng Sokon medicine. The 'enabling' Huawei speaks of means taking all the profits and shifting the blame to the drug company. A new drug every three months, skipping the human control group phase, letting consumers directly participate in the drug-testing phase. When things go wrong, they won't even need PR to clean up the mess—the pharmacological side effects alone can send consumers straight to the mortuary. "If something goes wrong with the drug, can rights defense succeed?" If you ask me—rights defense? You're dreaming. Huawei's slogan is: National drugs for national use, covered by national health insurance, quick-built by Huawei, leading by far.
Recently, US intelligence agencies wiretapped a Chinese businesswoman suspected of being a swallow, and accidentally intercepted a phone call between this Chinese businesswoman and a US citizen during the monitoring process. According to procedures, the name of the US citizen in the intelligence record had to be redacted to protect the US citizen's privacy. When US officials initiated the unmasking procedure and removed the black redaction bar, everyone's jaw dropped—the name turned out to be Jensen Huang. And the woman targeted by US intelligence was named Alice Huang (Huang Le). What is her relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang? The answer is: no family relation, but an extraordinary connection. How did a swallow manage to climb so high and attach herself to a global top-tier tech giant? What is her background? A story revolving around chips, money, and intelligence thus surfaces. In June 2024, at COMPUTEX Taipei, reporters curiously captured a scene where Jensen Huang was partying with multiple industry insiders at a dinner gathering, and Alice Huang was among them, even raising a glass to take a photo with Jensen Huang. In May 2025, at a dinner in Taipei, Jensen Huang accepted media interviews, and Alice Huang appeared right behind him. Right after that dinner gathering, Megaspeed, a Singaporean company where Alice Huang served as an executive, began making massive purchases of Nvidia AI equipment. Customs records show that from June 2024 to February 2026, Megaspeed's affiliated enterprise in Malaysia purchased at least $4.8 billion worth of AI equipment powered by Nvidia chips. How did a previously unknown company drop $4.8 billion in less than two years, where did this money come from, and where did these chips ultimately go? Looking into the company's background, Megaspeed is the Singapore branch of Seventh Avenue, a Chinese online gaming company, and Seventh Avenue is partially owned by the Beijing and local governments, having undergone a spin-off and renaming only in 2023. As for Alice Huang, she previously worked at Shanghai Hexi Investment (和熙投资), and relevant information shows she once participated in investing in domestic data center projects in China. After joining Megaspeed, Alice Huang served as managing director, and even operated externally directly under the title of CEO; she also showcased photos with Jensen Huang within investment circles to boost her business credibility. Alice Huang's resume is similarly quite dramatic; online resumes show she once worked as a reporter for Hunan TV and CCTV, then entered HSBC Private Bank and CITIC Securities, before moving to Shanghai Hexi Investment. However, when the New York Post contacted an executive at Hunan TV, the person stated, "We've never heard of her." Just how much water is in Alice Huang's resume remains unconfirmed by the outside world, or perhaps someone intentionally wanted to hide something.
Since 2022, the United States has continuously tightened restrictions on the export of advanced AI chips to China. So, how did the company in which Huang Le holds shares on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government manage to purchase large quantities of Nvidia chips and bypass the U.S. chip ban on the CCP? Megaspeed found a channel that seems quite absurd: purchasing through a U.S.-based company. This so-called U.S.-based company is Aivres Systems, a California subsidiary of the Chinese server giant Inspur Group. Megaspeed operated by changing its name and adjusting its business structure, with equipment first shipped to Southeast Asia before seeking opportunities to enter the Chinese market. One path involved installing Nvidia chips in Southeast Asian data centers to provide computing power services to Chinese companies, including Alibaba and others. In this way, the chips do not need to pass through CCP customs directly, yet the computing power can be provided to Chinese clients via the internet. Another path is even more suspicious; when the U.S. Department of Commerce went to Malaysia to investigate, they found that some expensive Nvidia equipment was still lying in its original shipping crates, completely unopened and uninstalled. Why buy equipment and not use it, not even opening the boxes? What exactly are these machines waiting for? It is self-evident. What truly escalated this from a commercial violation investigation to an intelligence incident was the electronic surveillance of Huang Le by U.S. intelligence agencies, as U.S. intelligence officials suspected that Huang Le was not only helping Chinese companies bypass chip export restrictions but also passing information to the CCP. After intelligence personnel intercepted her communications with Jensen Huang, an Nvidia spokesperson responded that there was nothing unusual about the contact between Jensen Huang and Ms. Huang. According to The Wall Street Journal, authorities in Singapore and Taiwan had previously investigated Huang Le's relationship with the CCP and even sent personnel to conduct field surveillance on her. Investigators suspected that CCP intelligence agencies might have recruited her after learning of her close relationship with Jensen Huang. Just as the relevant surveillance began in late 2024, Huang Le disappeared in China for a time; it is currently impossible to determine her exact whereabouts or whether she still serves as a senior executive at Megaspeed. It is alleged that U.S. intelligence agencies had long possessed clues about the communications between her and Jensen Huang; why did they delay notifying Jensen Huang? One explanation is that intelligence agencies were worried about alerting the target, as from a counter-intelligence perspective, continuing to monitor and track the entire network of relationships might be more valuable than immediately alerting the individual involved.
However, after this incident was exposed, Beijing responded quickly. On October 30, an AFP reporter asked Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun, who responded that the relevant reports were baseless and purely a smear campaign against China. The Chinese Embassy in the United States also denied the allegations, stating that it opposes the spreading of the so-called CCP spy narrative. Interestingly, however, when the New York Post asked the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek whether Huang Le was the fund manager of Shanghai Hexi Investment, DeepSeek replied, "Sorry, this is beyond my current scope of response; let's change the subject." Some netizens lamented that many of the world's important figures are accompanied by Chinese women; what kind of ambition and temptation make them fall into the "honey trap" one after another? From Fang Fang, Sun Wen, to Zhang Wanying, and now Huang Le, who has been pushed into the spotlight by the media, the topic of the CCP's "beautiful swallows" has once again become a focus in the Chinese-speaking world. However, the fact that the CCP came forward to deny it so quickly has made this cross-border public opinion incident even more intriguing. As for the truth, let us wait and see. Alright.
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