Chapter 12 The Public Conscience Calling (4)

In 2021, Geng Xiaonan was brutally sentenced by the authorities to three years imprisonment for “illegal business operation” and her husband was released on bail to live under surveillance.

Xu Zhangrun kept speaking out even though he lost his freedom under surveillance and on September 29, 2020 he wrote another long article “Why do you shiver so hard? ” Ruthlessly he dissected and condemned the CCP revolution from Mao to Xi for creating terror, building a kingdom of lies, bringing everyone into deception, infinite dictatorship, open shamelessness, causing mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He has said the leader of CCP is the biggest master slave. The revolution is a marathon of competing who is more ferocious and who is more cunning, the end of which is a ten-thousand-foot cliff, piling up the bones of countless slaves.

In “Our Current Fears and Expectations,” Xu Zhangrun asks Xi Jinping’s government to maintain a minimum of “four bottom lines”: 1. maintain basic law and order, 2. respect private property rights, 3. tolerate freedom of life, and 4. maintain the term system (abandon the lifetime system). The eight expectations require President Xi to do one of them first. First of all is to announce the removal of the ban on “no presumptuous discussion of the central government”. They can clamp down on the people of the country as they wish and a certain corrupt official is paying people “hush money” to prevent scandals from leaking.

Xu Zhangrun’s appeal to “hold the bottom line” was strongly echoed by Yi Zhongtian, a professor of history who also condemned his majesty for singing high tones and not holding the bottom line but doing the “Chinese dream” and “world dream”. He is keen on holding international forums’ everywhere, appearing as a world leader and likes to talk big and release “global governance” in a high profile, disregarding the fact that a large number of people in China are poor and living in hardship and suffering. Medical, education and livelihood problems are piling up like a mountain but the money from the accumulated blood and sweat of 1.4 billion people are spilling to the outside world. Various deadly disasters in the country are only engaged in “telegram governance” yet never actually solved. Yi Zhongtian has pointed out: what is lacking in China nowadays? The most lack of the CCP is the abandonment of the bottom line which is the lifeline of the CCP. Without the bottom line, the government will dare to do anything. They torture people to extract confessions. Anything, like slaughtering people, will happen. Yi Zhongtian has said: My hope for the Chinese Communist Party is eight words: “Do not sing a high tune, keep the bottom line”.

Beijing University sociology professor Zheng Yefu has also bravely spoken out on Dec. 22, 2019. Professor Zheng had published “The Cause of the Difficulty of Political Reform” in 2018, pointing out that the Chinese Communist Party did not even dare to implement the property disclosure system, so how could it reform? He asked the 7 Standing Committee of the CPC, starting with Xi Jinping to take the lead in public disclosure of property and Zheng’s stern initiative: “The CPC retires with dignity and fades out of history.”

Zhao Shilin, a professor at Beijing’s Central University for Nationalities, has written a letter to Xi Jinping in March 2021, sharply criticizing the human factors that have led to the ferocious spread of the pandemic and pointing out that Xi should take the primary responsibility. Professor Zhao has said that Mr. Xi can only get a 0 on this test. Zhao has analyzed the five major causes of the out-of-control pandemic: 1. the system’s extreme stability maintenance, 2. the system’s failure to report good news, 3. the system’s exclusive use of power, 4. the loss of civil society functions, and 5. the lack of transparent and unobstructed information. It is pointed out that it is a systemic crisis and President Xi is responsible for the first.

Zhao Shilin has said: to uphold conscience and assume social responsibility is the duty of intellectuals. Speaking out is the job of the intellectuals just like workers to do work and the farmers to do planting. However, after the disclosure of his petition, his WeChat and Weibo accounts have been blocked.

Cai Xia, a professor at the Central Party School in Beijing who had always criticized Xi Jinping, could no longer gain a foothold at home and fled to the United States in August 2020, saying bluntly, “The CCP is already a political zombie, Xi Jinping is a gangster, I am off fishing and back in the ranks of the people, I am back in line, my retirement package is gone, my life is broken from its source but I do not regret criticizing Xi Jinping.”