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By assassination I assume you mean metaphorical? As in to derail his rise before becoming party leader?

by ls612 3y ago

chaostheory 3y ago
No, literal attempts. One attempt involved a battleship “accidentally” firing onto another battleship where both Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping were visiting. https://jamestown.org/program/president-xi-suspects-political-conspiracy-behind-tianjin-blasts/ https://jamestown.org/program/president-xi-suspects-politica... Biased source, but she’s able to get a lot of unreported news from the mainland. https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2021/9/20/deleted-report-assassination-plot-and-the-ccps-intensifying-power-struggles https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2021/9/20/deleted-repo... I will try to find more sources but Google is just shit these days. See my other comment for more. A big problem is that mainland China is like the hermit kingdom. It’s a black hole for any news the CCP doesn’t want to get out
- wolverine876 3y ago
  Search for search terms site:nytimes.com (or bbc.co.uk or ap.com or another trusted source)
- jacquesm 3y ago
  > One attempt involved a battleship “accidentally” firing onto another battleship where both Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping were visiting. Hm. That really does qualify as an assassination attempt if it wasn't an actual accident. Enough such things happen by accident that it has a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire
- _tik_ 3y ago
  These are FalungGong. I will not trust Falun Gong's news on China. They are known to create conspiracy stories.
  - chris_wot 3y ago
    Agreed. Whilst I don’t trust China’s CCP, I sure as heck don’t trust anything from Falun Gong. Those guys are running an asymmetric battle against the Chinese State and frankly they would be capable of saying anything if it helped their cause.
  - g42gregory 3y ago
    What is Falun Gong exactly? I never understood what they are.
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong No guarantees about NPOV on that page. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Falun_Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Falun_Gong If you want to see what makes WikiPedia tick that's a great place to start.
      - g42gregory 3y ago
        Interesting. The Wikipedia's declaration about them being "new religious movement" is inconsistent with the body of the article. It looks like it started as some kind of Chi Kung exercise and wellness group, but it got big very fast and Chinese Government got concerned about their popularity. Then, under CCP persecution, it escalated and morphed into a full-blown political dissident movement. Initially viewed favorably by the press as a dissident movement. Now, Wikipedia article is very unfavorable because The Epoch Times misalignment with press. Ok, I think I understand.
        jacquesm 3y ago
        I wouldn't trust either the CCP or Falun Gong to speak my weight, they are both power structures and they are both engaging in all kinds of PR exercises to put themselves in the best light. But to Falun Gong's credit: I don't think they've engaged in massive human rights violations so they have that going for them. But there are certain cult like aspects to it and 'new religious movement' or not I think that the fewer such entities there are the better (and also fewer of the likes of the CCP please).

By assassination I assume you mean metaphorical? As in to derail his rise before becoming party leader?

by ls612 3y ago

By assassination I assume you mean metaphorical? As in to derail his rise before becoming party leader?

No, literal attempts. One attempt involved a battleship “accidentally” firing onto another battleship where both Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping were visiting. https://jamestown.org/program/president-xi-suspects-political-conspiracy-behind-tianjin-blasts/ https://jamestown.org/program/president-xi-suspects-politica... Biased source, but she’s able to get a lot of unreported news from the mainland. https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2021/9/20/deleted-report-assassination-plot-and-the-ccps-intensifying-power-struggles https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2021/9/20/deleted-repo... I will try to find more sources but Google is just shit these days. See my other comment for more. A big problem is that mainland China is like the hermit kingdom. It’s a black hole for any news the CCP doesn’t want to get out

wolverine876 3y ago
Search for search terms site:nytimes.com (or bbc.co.uk or ap.com or another trusted source)
jacquesm 3y ago
> One attempt involved a battleship “accidentally” firing onto another battleship where both Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping were visiting. Hm. That really does qualify as an assassination attempt if it wasn't an actual accident. Enough such things happen by accident that it has a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire
_tik_ 3y ago
These are FalungGong. I will not trust Falun Gong's news on China. They are known to create conspiracy stories.
- chris_wot 3y ago
  Agreed. Whilst I don’t trust China’s CCP, I sure as heck don’t trust anything from Falun Gong. Those guys are running an asymmetric battle against the Chinese State and frankly they would be capable of saying anything if it helped their cause.
- g42gregory 3y ago
  What is Falun Gong exactly? I never understood what they are.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong No guarantees about NPOV on that page. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Falun_Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Falun_Gong If you want to see what makes WikiPedia tick that's a great place to start.
    - g42gregory 3y ago
      Interesting. The Wikipedia's declaration about them being "new religious movement" is inconsistent with the body of the article. It looks like it started as some kind of Chi Kung exercise and wellness group, but it got big very fast and Chinese Government got concerned about their popularity. Then, under CCP persecution, it escalated and morphed into a full-blown political dissident movement. Initially viewed favorably by the press as a dissident movement. Now, Wikipedia article is very unfavorable because The Epoch Times misalignment with press. Ok, I think I understand.
      - jacquesm 3y ago
        I wouldn't trust either the CCP or Falun Gong to speak my weight, they are both power structures and they are both engaging in all kinds of PR exercises to put themselves in the best light. But to Falun Gong's credit: I don't think they've engaged in massive human rights violations so they have that going for them. But there are certain cult like aspects to it and 'new religious movement' or not I think that the fewer such entities there are the better (and also fewer of the likes of the CCP please).