Peering Into China’s Political Future, Part 1

More heads will roll before the CCP’s 18th National Congress this fall, says a George Mason University scholar.

On April 29, 7,400 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and composed images of Falun Gong’s founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, forming a grand and magnificent scene. The Epoch Times

Later Zhang also correctly predicted Bo’s vengeful betrayal of Zhou Yongkang and the effect this would have on Zhou and many other officials.

Zhang said he had no insider information, but based his predictions on his understanding of China’s political system and the mentality of its political leaders. Zhang said he and his colleagues at The Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty Television were able to have such foresight because they use the persecution of Falun Gong as the primary parameter in their predictions.

Many China experts mistakenly ignore the Falun Gong issue and its weight in China’s development over the past decade, Zhang said.

“Not reflecting on why the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong, not reflecting on why they failed to eradicate Falun Gong, and not treating Falun Gong—the CCP’s greatest fear—as an important factor in the analysis of Chinese politics, is, in my opinion, a great mistake,” Zhang said.

According to Zhang, Falun Gong’s response to persecution is very unique in many ways. “In the CCP’s history, it never took the Party more than three days to beat down and defame a target, even if it was the nation’s chairman or some prominent general. But Falun Gong is different,” Zhang said.

On the political front, the Jiang faction not only established the “610” office, an extra-judicial organ with supreme power to supervise the persecution, but also took pains to limit Hu and Wen’s power since they do not support the persecution, Zhang said.

The existence of the “610” office, which is free from oversight or restriction, has undermined China’s legal system and contributed greatly to the deterioration of China’s human rights and social justice, he said.

Zhang explained that the Jiang faction is anxious to seize power in order to ensure that the anti-Falun Gong policy will not be changed, and that those responsible will not be brought to justice.

For this reason, Zhang said, the Jiang faction chose Bo Xilai as their successor, since Bo aggressively carried out the persecution and has much blood on his hands. Knowing this, made it easy to predict that Zhou Yongkang would give Bo his full support until he himself sank too deeply into the mire.

According to Zhang, Zhou Yongkang’s career will not end any better than Bo’s, and this will become apparent before the CCP’s 18th National Congress this fall.

When Chongqing’s former top cop, Wang Lijun, fled for his life to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu on Feb. 6, he set in motion a political storm that has not subsided. The battle behind the scenes turns on what stance officials take toward the persecution of Falun Gong. The faction with bloody hands--the officials former CCP head Jiang Zemin promoted in order to carry out the persecution--is seeking to avoid accountability for their crimes and to continue the campaign. Other officials are refusing any longer to participate in the persecution. Events present a clear choice to the officials and citizens of China, as well as people around the world: either support or oppose the persecution of Falun Gong. History will record the choice each person makes.

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