Chapter 12 The Public Conscience Calling (1)

Shortly after Xi Jinping took office, he ordered that “no delusional comments about the central government” – with immediate effect, no discussion about him and all people were banned from speaking out but many public intellectuals still dared to speak out and attacked Xi Jinping directly. Ren Zhiqiang, who is known as a “cannon,” has been publicly attacking Xi Jinping since he took power in 2013 and in 2012 he spoke at Beijing University, calling on students to rise up and tear down the wall of the Chinese Communist dictatorship and re-establish a democratic system. In February 2016, when Xi inspected the three major media, Ren sharply criticized Xinhua News Agency for its “Party media surnamed Party and absolute loyalty to the CCP in February 2016 “. 

Ren was born in 1951 and his father, Ren Quansheng, was the vice minister of commerce of China. Ren belongs to the second generation of the red, a real estate entrepreneur, a master of law from Renmin University and is a contemporary of Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan. In 2020 March Ren has published an article with heavy artillery bombarding Xi Jinping, attacking Xi Jinping’s speech on February 23, 2020 at a national video conference of 170,000 people and attacking Xi Jinping calling him a clown who wants to become emperor even after being stripped naked. He has exposed Xi Jinping’s ambition to be an emperor and whoever does not let him be the emperor will be made to perish. At the time the Chinese people were trapped by the pandemic, Ren pointed out: people’s lives were hurt by the virus together with the serious illness of the system.

On March 12, 2020, Ren was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party’s Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and his son and secretary were also controlled by the CCDI. Ren has been out of contact since then. On September 22, 2020, Ren was sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment by a Beijing court on economic charges.

It was rumored on the mainland internet that Ren was on a hunger strike in prison despite having heart attacks and health worries. In March 2021, it was even rumored that he had died in prison. Officials are not sending any messages.

Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, has raised the banner of criticizing Xi Jinping’s authoritarian perversions and has continuously published long and well-reasoned articles which are very popular and thus he is the most representative leader of public intellectuals on the mainland. After publishing a long article on “Humming Reform and Opening Up” in January 2018, Professor Xu has published a long article exposing Xi Jinping’s dark rule, “Our Current Fears and Expectations” in 2018 listing the people’s “eight kinds of grievances”: 1. fear of losing property rights, the party to eliminate private ownership in the end 2. Another political hangover, far-left reappearance, intellectual panic, 3. Class struggle again 4. Shutdown again. The government’s policy is to make sure that the government will not be in trouble with the U.S., but it is in hot water with North Korea, 5. The foreign aid overload to tighten everyone’s belt 3 trillion foreign reserves, 40 years of hard work and accumulation to pay water 7. The war system and stability maintenance system in parallel, 8. Reform to end the return of totalitarianism for the nation’s greatest panic.

Then Xu Zhangrun has listed the eight expectations of the people: 1. stop the big spending on foreign countries, do justice, domestic problems are like a mountain, the countryside is withered, people’s welfare gone 2. stop the spread of wastefulness, 3. abolish the privileges. 4. abolish the special offer. 5. implement the sunshine bill on officials’ property. 6. the cult of the individual hurriedly breaks and the party media stops creating gods.. 7. restore the tenure system, end lifelong leadership, no checks and balances, the people tremble. 8. vindicate “The June Fourth Incident.

Professor Xu has finally attacked Xi’s core power manipulation, governance, perverse practices and collusion between government and business. The village of Liangjiahe in Shaanxi Province where Xi Jinping went to his hometown has only 40 to 50 families but it has a permanent liaison office and agricultural products exhibition hall in Shanghai which is a double act of collusion between government and business. Beijing Supreme Procuratorate has also opened a “Procuratorial Service Center” here and it is jointly listed with the “Liangjiahe Village Party Branch”. The actual “Liangjiahe University Question” project was launched by the Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Federation which has been frantically pushing against the trend of the God-making movement.