Xi Jinping’s Credibility Nosedives as CCP Loses Control Over Pandemic in China

The Xinjiang fire tragedy went viral on the mainland and sparked small-scale demonstrations in many parts of China. Students were seen waving blank sheets of paper in reference to a Soviet-era dissident joke to mourn the dead and protest the “zero-COVID” policy. On Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai, youths were filmed shouting, “Down with the CCP! Down with Xi Jinping!”

From Mao Zedong to Jiang Zemin: The Chinese Communist Party Fools People with Lies

After rising to the top position of the CCP from the bloodshed of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Jiang had no credibility in the eyes of both senior officials and ordinary citizens. To earn their loyalty, he allowed officials to amass wealth by taking bribes and/or using their power as leverage in business dealings. He also led them in indulging in a promiscuous lifestyle.

U.S. State Department Sanctions Chinese Communist Party Officials Ahead of Human Rights Day

The U.S. government has issued several sanctions against Chinese human rights violators in recent years. In May 2021, the DOS announced sanctions against Yu Hui, former director of the Central Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, for “gross violations of human rights, namely the arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners for their spiritual beliefs.”