Chapter 01 Xi Jinping’s Path to Rise (3)

Ke Lingling has been in London, but in recent years her good friends can’t find her. She was probably recalled to China by Xi Jinping who treated her generously to conceal Xi’s private life in their marriage. As Ke Lingling knew Xi’s background, Xi Jinping was on the edge of his seat, worried that he would be exposed at some point. One day, Ke told her friend why they divorced. “It is hard to live with a person who do not take shower for a week . Besides, he has no interest in anything except becoming a higher rank official, that is his dream of life. ”

Xi met Peng Liyuan in 1986 and married her in Xiamen in 1987. This is Xi Jinping’s 2nd marriage. They have a daughter, Xi Mingze. Xi Mingze was born in 1992. She studied psychology at Harvard University in the U.S.. When she was about to graduate, she was recalled to China by Xi Jinping in 2014 to work as her parent’s image designer, who is very active in China’s internet media.

Xi’s mother, Qi Xin, is an old retired CCP cadre in her 90s and lives in Shenzhen. Xi’s eldest sister, Qi Qiaoqiao, and brother-in-law, Deng Jiagui, reside in Canada. Second sister Qi Anan, second brother-in-law Wu Longchang, live in Australia, and young brother Xi Yuanping, lives in Australia.

All the way from the countryside as a youth, to Tsinghua University, especially in Hebei after becoming an official, there was explicit news of Xi Jinping’s sexual affairs, in 2014. A writer collected the news of his sexuality into a book in order to publish it in Hong Kong. Somehow, Xi Jinping heard it and immediately sent guobao (state security officers) to Hong Kong to kidnap the publisher so that the book publication could be aborted.

Five years later, in 2019, still similar contents were published in the United States. (Xi Jinping and His Lovers), which, in addition to chronicling Xi’s racy affairs, also exposed the rules of the game and the unspoken rules of the Chinese Communist Party officialdom. The book led to the arrest of the owner of the Causeway Bay bookstore in Hong Kong, which triggered the anti-sending campaign and the subsequent Hong Kong National Security Law. This event shows that private lives of leaders of totalitarian states can be the spark for a social movement, and exposing their private lives can be the starting point for the downfall of a thriving city.

Xi also intervened in other cases that would have affected him. Lai Changxing, born in 1958, a native of Fujian province and five years younger than Xi Jinping, was a treacherous businessman who colluded with the official smuggling to get rich. Being most wanted by the Chinese government, he evaded Canada for 12 years. He was deported to China in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012. It is rumored that the central government is discussing the death penalty, but Xi Jinping is strongly in favor of not killing him.

At the end of 1986, a seminar on cross-strait relations was held in Xiamen, and a female professor from Tsinghua University, Bai Liping, was on the delegation of Taiwan. Talking with Vice Mayor Xi, Professor Bai gave Xi Jinping one of her papers, asking him to study it and write his own report to influence the Communist Party’s high-level policy on Taiwan. The thesis was to be clear that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were no longer rivals, and that the common heartache was the DPP. The Kuomintang wanted to use the power of the Communist Party to crush the DPP. Xi Jinping was very happy by saying, “very good, very good, working together.”

In 2007, the Chinese Communist Party opened the 17th National Congress election to determine the next successor for the post of general secretary , Jiang Zemin preferred Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao preferred Li Keqiang, both sides laid out for votes.