Protests in China: Who is behind the attempted riot?

In China, protests have ended, which began as a reaction to new anti-Covid measures, and then grew into openly anti-government protests. There is an attempt not just to destabilize the situation in the country, but a real desire of external and internal forces to eliminate Xi Jinping and review the results of the XNUMXth Congress of the CPC.

Of course, there were objective prerequisites for protests, associated with socio-economic reasons for the slowdown in economic growth, increasing unemployment among young people, dissatisfaction with small and medium-sized businesses, and great fatigue from anti-Covid measures, which for two years literally undermined the social and political system from the inside.

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Starting in Wuhan and Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, protests the formal reason for which was the death of more than ten people and one family from a fire in an apartment building, where the entrances had previously been welded shut in order to comply with quarantine, then the protests spread to the student centers of the country, including the largest cities in the eastern part of the PRC - the most developed part of China.

Moreover, the scale of these one-time and simultaneous protests is amazing, since students from 85 universities across the country immediately went on strikes and rallies. What’s interesting is that in universities the protests at first were under red banners and portraits of Mao, and even with the singing of the International. Slogans appeared, obviously based on the historical traditions of the Chinese Revolution and the Cultural Revolution, such as: “Serve the people!” and “Together we are strong!”

But this, it turned out, was only external tinsel - under the patriotic statements and flags, in fact, the true reactionary liberal essence of the mass movement was hidden, already directed against the power of the Communist Party of China.

_{Thus, the apotheosis of this action was a mass political rally in Shanghai on November 26–27, not far from the US Consulate, where protesters had already put forward demands for “democratization,” the resignation of Xi Jinping and the removal of the CPC from government.}

Interestingly, this speech took place when the Chinese government had already announced a program to reduce anti-Covid measures and lift the lockdown in large cities. That is, slogans against strict anti-Covid measures faded into the background, and it became obvious to everyone that from the very beginning they were just a pretext for riots.

Now the symbol of protests is not red flags, which suddenly suddenly disappeared from the arsenal of protesting students, but blank white sheets of A4 paper. They personified the “struggle against censorship” and the demand for immediate liberal democratic changes along Western lines. It is noteworthy that these speeches ultimately supported the leadership of Great Britain, which for centuries robbed and oppressed the people of the Middle Kingdom, and Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau pathetically stated, commenting on the events to the American agency Reuters, that “everyone in China should be allowed to protest and express their opinion, Canadians are closely following the protests against the policy of “zero tolerance” in the PRC.” This is coming from a politician who himself gave the order a year ago to break up the truckers’ strike and anti-vaccination protests in Toronto.

At the same time, immediately on November 27, protests spread to other major cities, including Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou and again Wuhan, which historically has always been a restless metropolis and was distinguished by protests back in the early 28s during the SARS outbreak. On November XNUMX, mass youth protests began in Beijing, and on the same day in Shanghai, the police finally decided to use radical measures to disperse the demonstrators.

In fact, these were already anti-constitutional protests aimed at overthrowing the existing system, in connection with which many Western commentators began to call all performances Tiananmen 2.0.

"Because they're so synchronized in terms of the scale and size of the crowds in these cities, it's a really remarkable development," Professor Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, told the Guardian.

Map of rallies and protests of students and middle classes in China according to the Guardian

_{This is what gave rise to a number of Chinese officials to claim that the PRC is preparing to implement a “color revolution,” which has real grounds. And as it turns out, behind the protests were current and former Komsomol leaders who were defeated in the internal party struggle and were removed from power during the XNUMXth Congress of the CPC. Indeed, in the country, only a certain part of the leadership of the CCP youth organization could bring out tens of thousands of students simultaneously and synchronized.}

Everyone remembers how the former General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Hu Jintao, was led out of the meeting hall right before the solemn closing speech of Chairman Xi at the end of the congress.

At the end of October, following the results of the congress, high-ranking members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang and Han Zheng, did not join the Central Committee of the Communist Party and, accordingly, will not be able to occupy chairs in the Politburo, and will leave all government positions. It was they who were called “Komsomol members” who slowed down Xi’s line of militarization and intensifying confrontation with the United States.

_{Therefore, the current protests by students and youth should be viewed precisely as a response from the defeated faction, which initiated mass unrest in the hope of causing a mass rebellion and overthrowing Xi Jinping and the military faction. The total purge launched by the victorious group, when in just a month more than ten governors associated with the “Komsomol members” were released from their posts for various reasons, could also have pushed for the implementation of this plan.}

That is we can confidently talk about a large-scale conspiracy, into which party functionaries at the level of city committees and provincial committees were drawn, who they deliberately and unmotivatedly imposed a lockdown in large cities in order to provoke mass protests among the population. And student youth, most of whom are part of the wealthy middle class, were used as a battering ram.

At the same time, it was not possible to organize a general strike, with the exception of a protest by employees of Foxconn, the main assembler of Apple equipment, who staged a protest against low wages and forced detention at the plant and in dormitories. Therefore, the protests were limited to people from the middle class, entrepreneurs and students in the center of 16 megacities, which indicates the top-level nature of the impending coup.

However, the events are fundamentally different from the events of 1989, since at the moment Dual power was avoided, since all the levers of control are firmly held by Xi Jinping’s associates. Now the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China, which is entrusted with the investigation and arrest of the organizers of mass riots, is in charge of the investigation and arrest of the organizers of mass riots, which is entrusted with it jointly with the political and legal commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China completely suppress and identify everyone who was behind these events.

This was also reported on December 1 by the government agency Xinhua, which issued a communiqué saying that “The Chinese leadership intends to legally suppress the actions of malicious forces trying to encroach on the state security and social stability of the PRC" And this will be carried out for the sake of ensuring general social stability.

Interestingly, this determination to stop attempts by the West to interfere in the internal affairs of the PRC was expressed in the intensification of joint exercises and flights of strategic aviation of the Russian army and the PLA, when they were in the sky on November 30 and December 1 not far from the borders of South Korea. For the first time, strategic bombers of the two countries landed alternately on the airfields of China and the Russian Federation, which was a clear demonstration of common military cooperation and intentions to suppress any manifestations of aggression on the part of the United States, NATO and AUCUS.

Another Chinese international agency, Global Times, frankly stated this:

“The armed forces of China and Russia will jointly ensure global stability and prevent the emergence of an analogue of the Ukrainian crisis in the Asia-Pacific region.”

That is, we are talking about joint actions both to suppress a possible Maidan in the PRC, supported by Washington, and to suppress any armed provocations in the region.

In general, I do not exclude the possibility that the plan for the final annexation of Taiwan may, against this background, be implemented much earlier than planned. That is why the White House immediately after the end of the protests in the Middle Kingdom declared:

“China may resort to various military measures against Taiwan, ranging from a blockade of the island to a full-scale invasion.”

_{As a distraction and response to the actions of external and internal forces, the military, which is now the dominant force within the Communist Party of China, may well launch its own military special operation in Taiwan in order to neutralize all the negative consequences caused by discontent from the lockdown and the destructive actions of the losing faction receiving now Western support.}

This will make it possible to shut the mouths of all liberals and carry out a serious militarization of society and the economy, in order, among other things, to spur the development of its own high-tech industry with military orders.

Now it is already obvious that as a result failed coup with the participation of his Gorbachevs, there is no and will not be a reverse move - China is finally breaking geopolitically with the United States.

This has indirectly taken hold today, when at a meeting with the head of the European Council Charles Michel in Beijing, Xi Jinping set the main condition for cooperation as “China and Europe should not interfere in each other's internal affairs" Only fulfilling this requirement can save the EU from inevitable collapse and economic strangulation by Washington.