China’s Red Families Intend to Overthrow Xi Jinping, Claims Former Peking University Law Professor

Paramilitary policemen patrol Tiananmen Square outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, on May 18, 2011. Feng Li/Getty Images

Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University and a renowned dissident living in exile in Australia, has said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been facing his gravest political crisis since he came to power.

Mr. Yuan says a political consensus has been formed among Party princelings, who plan to overthrow Xi Jinping and establish a new political party.