He's playing hardball! Xi Jinping purges iconic Youth League faction figure Liu Yandong!

Anchor Hu Liren analyzed the passing of Liu Yandong, a symbolic figure of the Communist Youth League faction and former Vice Premier of the State Council, in his program, pointing out that Xi Jinping is conducting a comprehensive purge of the Youth League faction. Combining the unnatural deaths of high-ranking Youth League officials such as Li Keqiang and Chen Zhenggao, the anchor reviewed the history of purges and power struggles within the Communist Party, discussing the political fates of princelings and Youth League officials as well as their perceptions of the Communist Party.

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Hello, audience! Today, there is some very big news. You see, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee is still being held at the Jinji Hotel. Look, a symbolic figure of the Communist Youth League faction, Liu Yandong—Liu Yandong was once the First Secretary of the Communist Youth League Central Committee. This person was actually a very powerful figure in the Youth League faction; she was the first female member of the Politburo Standing Committee in the history of the CCP. She was a symbolic figure of the Youth League faction. Do you know how old she was? She was born in 1945, only 81 years old. Look, these CCP officials, suddenly dying at 81, and at such a critical juncture. I absolutely do not believe that Liu Yandong died of natural causes. Everyone remembers Liu Yandong, right? I remember that during the pandemic, she often appeared in public. Look, in just a few years, not many years at all, Liu Yandong—she was a second-generation official, a second-generation official. Her father was a vice-ministerial level cadre, a vice-ministerial level cadre at the time. That was a big deal! Back in the 1950s, a vice-ministerial level cadre in the 50s and 60s. Then, during the Cultural Revolution, they were persecuted. These people, as I have said before, if you check the history of any CCP official during the Cultural Revolution, they were all persecuted, including Liu Yandong's father-in-law. Her husband was also a second-generation red, a second-generation red and second-generation official, a standard second-generation official. Her father-in-law, her husband's father, was also a vice-ministerial level cadre. So these people, later on, after being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution—this is history, and many young people might not understand why the Communist Party purged almost all its officials during the Cultural Revolution. Look, what Xi Jinping is doing now is exactly these things. If you want to understand the CCP, if you want to know what Xi Jinping is doing now, you just need to open up the dark history of the Communist Party, and you will know what Xi Jinping is going to do. Everything he does is step-by-step, following that old playbook, because that old playbook was very successful for Mao; he eventually became a dictator and purged all his opponents, so Xi Jinping is doing the same thing now. You don't even need to use your brain; he just digs up that history, and you look at someone like Cai Qi, and you just follow that path. And the Communist Party is very evil. Look at Liu Yandong, a whole life, 81 years old, working and risking her life for the CCP even in her 70s, right? And in the end, she gets purged. Look at these past two days, look at the Youth League faction figures. If you talk about Liu Yandong, her seniority was even higher than Li Keqiang's. Think about it, how old is Li Keqiang now? Probably 76 or 77, right? 75 or 76, something like that, right? He has been dead for several years now. He died when he was about 71 or 72, right? And this Liu Yandong, look, she was a woman who became a member of the Standing Committee, and she had a very good relationship with Hu Jintao. She rose to power during the Wen Jiabao era.

You see, over the past couple of days, I have been talking about how Xi Jinping is going to purge all members of the Communist Youth League faction (Tuanpai). Look at the Tuanpai members still in office right now; for instance, in the provincial organs, Wu Chunhua is still a member of the CCP Central Committee, and Zhou Kang is also a member of the CCP Central Committee, right? These people are all going to be purged. Xi Jinping's current goal is to eliminate all of them—you don't even need to think about it, no need to rack your brains—he is going to get rid of every single member of the Tuanpai. As I have always said, the Tuanpai was his stepping ladder, the Tuanpai was what guaranteed his survival. Once the Tuanpai people took power, Xi Jinping's life would have been secured. Xi Jinping is the kind of person whose defining characteristic is making mistake after mistake, every single step wrong, without a single winning move. He has even put his own life on the line. Look, after the Tuanpai came to power, after Hu Jintao came to power, he would at most get rid of these small fry of yours, get rid of you people. But look, he wouldn't go after Jiang Zemin. Now, suppose the Tuanpai people had taken power, you see, Xi Jinping would have safely retired; after stepping down, as long as you handed over the family wealth, you wouldn't be purged either. But now Xi Jinping has no choice left. What stage has he reached? He is fighting for his life right now. As I was already saying last year, he is fighting for his life. Look, here is another case involving Liu Yandong. Look, Li Keqiang, Liu Yandong, right? Hu Jintao—Hu Jintao was the biggest boss of the Tuanpai back then, wasn't he? He actually had even greater seniority than Hu Jintao and Liu Yandong, right? As the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, he was dragged straight out of the meeting venue. Inside the Communist Party, if you look at these people, they boast to the outside world, saying we are all revolutionary comrades, loyal proletarian revolutionaries, right? In reality, they are all rolling in wealth, engaged in internal infighting. Ordinary people don't fight them; they can't reach them. Within their circles, look, those who die all end up this way. Xi Jinping strikes with extreme ruthlessness, absolute ruthlessness, extreme ruthlessness. Look at these people—they all died under abnormal circumstances. I once mentioned another symbolic figure of the Tuanpai—and the people I am talking about here, I knew them personally, I actually knew them myself—named Chen Zhenggao. Does everyone remember? Chen Zhenggao. I met Chen Zhenggao many times. I used to work in two cities under Liaoning Province, serving as their economic consultant and investment consultant at the time. Every year, since I was in Shanghai, they would send these projects to me and have me review them. But back then, they wanted to develop Liaoning, and that was when Li Keqiang was the leader there, serving as the Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee. Under him was Chen Zhenggao, who was the Party Secretary of Shenyang at the time—well, he was the Mayor of Shenyang back then. At that time, I was specifically helping several cities under them with project reviews. Some of their projects needed investment, and other people wanted to invest, but since they didn't understand investment themselves, they invited experts from all over the country. I was one of the members of the expert panel, and every year I helped them review investment projects and was paid a consultant fee by them back then.

Chen Zhenggao, as you know, passed away around the same time as Li Keqiang. It was also an abnormal death, and he was in his 70s. About half a year after Li Keqiang died, it seems Chen Zhenggao was gone too. Chen Zhenggao had a very good relationship with Li Keqiang at the time. If you connect these things—the Communist Party is like this, you have to analyze it—once you connect these various fragments, you study the Communist Party, and you realize, oh, so that's how it is. These are all related, all related, right? Look at what Chen Zhenggao eventually became: Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. What is the concept of the Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development? Right? He was the boss of China's real estate. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development manages real estate, land, and construction; he was in charge of all of that. After Li Keqiang came to power, Chen Zhenggao was actually quite capable. He was from Haicheng, Liaoning. He was very capable, a man of action, and also a landmark figure of the Youth League faction. Of course, he wasn't from the Central Committee of the Youth League; he was local, in Liaoning, right? He had always been a leader in Liaoning. He himself was a Youth League faction figure like Li Keqiang, but relatively speaking, it was like when Hu Jintao went to Tibet and met Hu Chunhua back in the day; they were all these Youth League faction people. Deep down, they looked down on these 'princelings' (red second generation), as many of the princelings were relatively uneducated. You see, these people [the Youth League faction] all graduated from Tsinghua, Peking University, or similar institutions; they all entered the Youth League and got their diplomas through these connections. Look at Xi Jinping and you know that his learning ability is absolutely terrible, right? Even as the Chairman, he has secretaries doing his homework for him; he is definitely someone who doesn't want to learn. If he were someone who wanted to learn, someone very cautious in his work, he would absolutely not read these characters wrong or mispronounce them. If you don't understand, you just mark the pronunciation, right? You just find a secretary. Look, there are some characters that look difficult to understand, so why don't I pay attention and mark them? Just have the people below mark the pinyin for him. I suspect Xi Jinping doesn't even understand pinyin; he can't mark it, he can only mark the wrong characters. So, at that time, he was like that every day, and people are like this: you cannot elevate yourself. Once you elevate yourself, if he were to say in front of his secretary, 'I don't understand this character,' he would lose face. So, in the end, he makes a fool of himself everywhere, makes a fool of himself everywhere.

Look at Liu Yandong. Liu Yandong is 81; she has already safely stepped down and retired. These people, let me tell you, these retired officials within the Communist Party, they all care about rank. 'What was my rank before?' Every year, the people below have to come and pay tribute, right? Because they still have many connections, right? The Communist Party—having been an official in the imperial court for so many years, think about how many people below he had to arrange for? These people owe him favors. During holidays, many people have to visit; sometimes for big events, they even have to communicate with him. Liu Yandong was a Vice Premier at the time, so they all had to go and give her face, right? So, for some things, for example, after I communicate with her, if something unhappy happens to the people below, or if there are different opinions, then such old leaders from above will also say a word, right? Because they have the status. So Liu Yandong was also considered one of the Youth League faction. So Xi Jinping, look, even these Youth League faction people—don't even mention Hu Chunhua, don't mention Shen Yueyue or Zhou Qiang, who have already retired. Liu Yandong even helped Xi Jinping back then, right? She served as Vice Premier during Xi Jinping's term. Think about it, at 81, there is no such thing as a Communist Party official [dying easily]; look at Xi Jinping's mother, she is still alive to this day. Look at how good the medical conditions are for these people. Liu Yandong's medical conditions were good; she was a member of the Standing Committee, and people like her have the treatment of a national-level leader. Think about it, these people are all 81, and suddenly they are gone. Ah! The medical conditions of the Chinese Communist Party are completely different from those of ordinary people; they will keep you alive, dragging it out, at 81. So Xi Jinping is now dealing lethal blows, lethal blows. He wants to... look, in a while, look at people like Han Zheng, they will all disappear, they will all disappear. Either they go to Qincheng Prison, or they suddenly get sick and are gone, just get sick and are gone. Look, Li Keqiang was just gone; Li Keqiang and Chen Zhenggao were gone. Chen Zhenggao was also in very good health. Look, he's just gone. This is really about Chen Zhenggao, because I have mentioned before that I met Li Keqiang twice. The second time I met Li Keqiang was in Shenyang, and it was Chen Zhenggao who introduced us. Was Chen Zhenggao the Shenyang Municipal Party Secretary or the Mayor at the time? I remember the Municipal Party Secretary should be the boss, should be the boss.

The Communist Party, you ask about the ultimate outcome of the Communist Party? The Communist Party is like this; they are like people, like gambling. If you encounter a good era within the Party, then you won't be impacted. For example, if you encounter the era of Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping came to power, and you also came to power. After coming to power, then you retired in the 80s or 90s, and after retiring, by this age now, you are already bedridden or have already left this world. Then these people are safe, relatively safe, and have not suffered a major impact. Then as for the people who came later, for example, this decade, those who retired ten years ago, from now on, as long as someone like Xi Jinping appears, the purging of the entire Communist Party begins. Over the last couple of days, many media outlets—there is a media outlet in Hong Kong saying that probably...

Only about 77% of the people attended this meeting, which means that more than 20% of the people have been purged. Among them, some people, people like Miao Hua, and Qin Gang, these are the people of the 20th National Congress, and they themselves are members of the Central Committee of the 20th National Congress, and this entire committee is within the collective. Since these people have been removed—I calculated, there are probably about twenty, probably only twenty-odd people. That means, assuming there are two hundred people now, and I remember there are two hundred and two members of the Central Committee, then about forty or fifty people need to be purged. More than forty people, forty-odd people need to be purged, forty-odd people need to be purged. Now we can count on our fingers, there are probably more than twenty people who definitely will not show up. Then there are still more than twenty people, and right now nobody knows who these twenty-plus people are. I have talked to people; I have friends inside, and even I don't know whether this person will be purged or not. Will they be purged or not? A long time ago, about ten years ago, I talked to him and said, your position is completely different from mine. He used to come to Shanghai often to find me. I said to you, at that time I couldn't tell him, I couldn't tell him to flee abroad either. I said to you, I said you are in great danger. He said yes, he said we are relatively in danger, nothing can be done, because when we were young, due to family connections, his family itself was also second-generation officials, also from official circles. So these people, it seems that the official fathers of these people are all leaders, but actually they are planting landmines for their own children. Liu Yandong is like this, Liu Yandong is like this. Now you see, including Li Keqiang, it's the same. Li Keqiang, whose father was once a county party secretary and also previously belonged to the New Fourth Army in Anhui. These people's parents determined the fate of their children. Although Li Keqiang seems to be from a grassroots background, actually he is not from a grassroots background; he was poisoned by the Communist Party since childhood. Meaning that, you see, parents in the past often used to be like this: you must strive for progress, you must strive for progress, you must become the Communist Youth League secretary, and so on. Actually, they don't know that once you enter the Communist Party system, enter the Communist Youth League, enter the party committee, enter the Communist Party, as soon as you take an oath, you are finished. Your life—your life is no longer your own. The higher you climb, the greater your risk, and you might even drag your whole family down into it. These people are just these people; they have no awareness of family risk, no awareness of personal risk. One can even say that until they die, the parents of these people never saw the Communist Party clearly until death, ultimately harming themselves and harming their descendants. The descendants of these people have all been ruined. Look at Liu Yandong's entire family, do you think anyone will rise up in the future? It is impossible to rise up. I believe that these people, including Li Keqiang's entire family, they also know. Look at whether Li Keqiang's death was a normal death or an unnatural death? Anyone with a normal brain just thinks about it for a second and you will know, because Li Keqiang openly challenged Xi Jinping, and he—Li Keqiang can tell everyone, he was murdered. He was propped up, and he simply couldn't stand it anymore. This person was deeply poisoned by the Communist Party, poisoned very deeply by the Communist Party. He believed that the Communist Party is a righteous party, he believed that the Communist Party can be reformed, you understand? He believed that all the evils committed by the Communist Party were just mistakes made by the Communist Party. I used to argue with those pro-democracy people overseas as well, we argued, and it really is like this. They believe that the Communist Party can be reformed, while I believe that the Communist Party can absolutely not be reformed. Look at reform—they reformed themselves right into the grave, reformed themselves right to go meet Marx, right? Look, what Li Keqiang wanted to do was to reform the Communist Party. Just think, isn't that so? Right? What he did, including what Hu Jintao did, was the same. Can these people succeed? You have to stand at a very high elevation to examine the Communist Party, to look at what the Communist Party has done. Ah! You have to—you have to—you have to use these real data: how many people has the Communist Party killed? How many sins has the Communist Party committed? How many profound disasters has the Communist Party brought to this society, to this ethnic group, to this country? When you look back at this history, are you still a normal person? Is this done by a normal group?

Some people are still talking about it. Back then, I talked about Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang. Regarding Zhao Ziyang, I gave an example; I once did a program about how Zhao Ziyang killed people during the land reform. Yet, those so-called pro-democracy activists overseas are still talking about it. What is Zhao Ziyang? They say Zhao Ziyang just made a mistake. Think about it, you killed people, you killed so many people, and they call it a mistake. They think Zhao Ziyang is forgivable. How worrying! If that's the case, then none of the criminal murderers in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) need to be executed or sentenced; they should just be released. Let them reform slowly, let them improve. People must have a sense of character. Just like when I used to work in corporate management, some people make mistakes occasionally, and it's not intentional. You have to distinguish the nature of these things. You might think, 'Oh, this person made a mistake, this is forgivable.' But some people are absolutely unforgivable, even if they only made one mistake. If you forgive them, you are planting a time bomb in the company that might suddenly explode one day. You have to look at the nature of the matter. What is the nature of the CCP? The attribute of the CCP is intentional murder, right? Now look, inside the CCP, everyone is killing each other. Liu Yandong is a very unfortunate woman; the last time she appeared seemed to be a few years ago. She still appeared a few years ago, attending some event, maybe an anti-Japanese war commemorative event. I saw a photo of it online. In the end, she sent herself straight to the grave! These people... So, Xi Jinping, I said, I was talking about it a couple of days ago, what is Xi Jinping thinking regarding the Tuanpai (Youth League faction)? He wants to completely purge the Tuanpai; he believes the Tuanpai is his stumbling block. He wants to eliminate all the thoughts and hopes of the Red Second Generation and the Military Second Generation. In fact, those who truly hold onto the ideas of Reform and Opening-up—these are the people I'm talking about, the Red Second Generation—they actually treat the Tuanpai as a treasure, as a treasure, just like Deng Xiaoping did back then. Deng Xiaoping knew, Deng Xiaoping was very clear, that if these Red Second Generation people were brought to power, the country would be finished, the country would be finished.

So at that time, he hoped there would be centrists, people walking in a gray zone, meaning they had connections with ordinary people as well. Well, their background—to Xi Jinping and these princelings, these people came from grassroots origins. Their understanding of society as a whole, their thirst for knowledge, the logic behind how they did things—they respected, relatively speaking, facts. Because they didn't have resources around them. The princelings and people in the Communist Party before had resources around them; they could do whatever they wanted, do anything casually, and everyone protected each other. They wouldn't hold anyone accountable; even if you did something wrong, they wouldn't hold you accountable. You'd hear things like, "My mom and dad previously went on the Long March, previously served as Central Committee members of the Politburo, fuck!" But these people naturally had an umbrella of protection. Except when people within the Communist Party fought among themselves—when there was infighting within the Communist Party and everyone was fighting each other—many princelings considered what to be what? They considered it to be a mutual sacrifice within the Communist Party. They didn't think this was something very evil; they didn't think so. I once—Guo Moruo's daughter, I once talked about her, Guo Suying, I had dinner with her several times. At that time, I even asked her and communicated with her. She is older than me; she is in her eighties now. Back then she was young, in her sixties, only over twenty years ago she was in her sixties, still very young. Well, Guo Moruo's family suffered a huge impact and trauma during the Cultural Revolution. As long as you talked to her about Mao Zedong, as long as you talked to her about that period of history in her family during the Cultural Revolution, she would absolutely never resent Mao, never resent Mao. Throughout my entire communication process with her, there wasn't a single word of resentment toward Mao. She believed that our country's political line had run into problems; she believed this was a necessary sacrifice, a necessary sacrifice of the family. Because once the Communist Party enters this group, it inherently requires giving, requires sacrifice. They always maintain this group, because they know that only by maintaining their group well can their children and descendants in the future stand above ordinary people, completely different from everyone else. They can be high above, enjoying endless wealth and glory—where do ordinary people ever get that kind of treatment? So they have to maintain these things; this is what is in their hearts, so these people are truly vicious at heart. The Communist Party—that is why when Xi Jinping talks about the fish-and-water relationship between the people and the party, look at it: the more he talks about the fish-and-water relationship with the people, the more miserable ordinary people under the Communist Party become, the more miserable they are. Look at ordinary people now: they have nothing to eat, no jobs to do, and yet you see Xi Jinping still firmly controlling his power, constantly engaging in internal strife. He has no interest whatsoever in all these economic matters and things like that. Look, has his relationship with the West eased? There has been no easing; he still wants to fight Taiwan, still wants to intimidate, still wants to intimidate. Everyone must know that Taiwan and Hong Kong were the pioneers that supported the CCP's economy when China first started reform and opening up! Look at the coastal areas near Fujian, previously the Taiwan-funded zones, including the Taiwan-funded zones in Kunshan near Shanghai, including places like Jiaxing—industrial parks from Taiwan were everywhere, and all over the Jiangnan region there were many Taiwanese-funded enterprises. These people took risks to invest at that time. The first batch of investors all took risks. You don't know the Communist Party; today the Communist Party is like this, but previously it was completely hostile to the Kuomintang—in the past, if you were caught you would have your head cut off, so these people show no gratitude. Look at these brainwashed idiots in China, brainwashed by Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. Look at how, when the Communist Party suppressed the protests of the people of Hong Kong, the resistance of the people, these people were all cheering: "Serves them right, kills are good, serves them right to suppress them." Look, these people are all ungrateful wretches, all ungrateful wretches. They do not know that reform and opening up was a redemption of China by Western free and democratic countries; this was a movement of redemption. They have no idea at all, thinking it's because I've gotten awesome. I used to be in the West; earliest on, I worked in a national research institute, and later I left very early. Left very early. Not many days after I worked in the research institute, oh, I thought these places were simply not where I should stay; every single day, the people there were talking abnormally, completely not my kind of people. I directly jumped ship to a foreign-invested enterprise. Back then, foreign enterprises started appearing in the 1990s; I jumped ship directly to a foreign-invested enterprise around the early to mid-1990s, there was simply no way, you couldn't communicate with them at all.

Alright, I believe that these Tuanpai (Youth League faction) members—look at Liu Yandong, Liu Yandong is still alive, or let's assume she has already passed away, that she died yesterday. Among those still alive, she is the only one, after Hu Jintao—she is the second most iconic figure of the Tuanpai, second only to Hu Jintao. Her iconic weight is much greater than that of Li Keqiang, and now she is gone too, just like that. I will go to Beijing in the next couple of days to inquire about her specific situation, how exactly did Liu Yandong die? Regarding Chen Zhenggao's death, I inquired about it later. Chen Zhenggao was, uh, the Chen Zhenggao I knew, who later became the Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. During Li Keqiang's era, Li Keqiang brought him from Shenyang to Beijing. Chen Zhenggao was a very capable person, very capable. Tuanpai people are different; when we interact with Tuanpai people in daily life, we can actually talk to them. As for the others, these other people within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), they simply have no logic, only positions. With Tuanpai people, you can talk about logic; these people who have read books are all high-IQ individuals. Actually, it was a huge waste for Tuanpai people to enter the CCP. These people should have gone into academia. In the end, they all sacrificed their lives. The few people I know of all sacrificed their lives. Alright, I will stop here for this topic. If there is any new information, I will continue to do live streams for everyone. Thank you all for watching, and I will see you in the next topic.