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The New Chinese Cultural Revolution Had Been Declared
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Why China is erasing the rich and famous
September 4, 2021 - 12:58PM
A film star, the head of Interpol and one of China's wealthiest investors have gone missing after apparently falling afoul of the Communist Party. The message to Chinese citizens is clear: No matter who you are, the party can get you.
“Helmsman” Xi Jinping is changing course.
The mega-wealthy. Supremely popular celebrities. He sees these as products of Western ideology. Now he wants to impose a new “Common Prosperity” – with Chinese characteristics.
The sudden ‘erasure’ of billionaire singer and actress Zhao Wei from China’s social media and entertainment platforms marks a dramatic change in the nation’s course.
It should come as no surprise.
Chairman Xi awarded himself the title of “core navigator and helmsman” last year. Previously it had been reserved only for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) greatest revolutionary hero, Chairman Mao Zedong.
The honorific imparts ultimate authority. It entrenched the ambitious Chairman as the sole controller of every aspect of Chinese society.
And Helmsman Xi doesn’t like what he sees. Influential celebrities. Rich entrepreneurs.
The Helmsman sees these as dangerous capitalist reefs upon which the great ship the Party state could be wrecked. So he’s spun the helm over, hard.
“Capitalism with Chinese characteristics” has had its day. Helmsman Xi wants to guide his people to a new era of “Common Prosperity”.
But that’s not enough. He’s also embarking on a massive social re-engineering project to clear the path of any possible threat.
Troubled waters
Communist China embarked on an era of reform and “opening up” in the 1980s.
The stated policy was “let some people get rich first”. The idea was this would accelerate the nation’s drive to modernise its economy.
It worked. But it came with a price.
The rich quickly became super-rich. Others became immensely popular.
Combined, that meant individuals wielded significant influence and power on both the national and international scale.
But that was supposed to be the sole domain of the Party. Communism has clashed with capitalism.
A screen shows a video of celebrity idols at a fan merchandise store at a shopping mall in Beijing. Picture: Jade Gao/AFP
Helmsman Xi sees the immense individual wealth of entrepreneurs as a source of competing power. It also represents severe economic risk. The fate of enormous companies taking on massive debt as part of their global dominance games could drag China upwards – or downwards.
That may be why the Communist Party ‘disappeared’ tech billionaire Jack Ma and terminated the public float – issuing of shares – of his wildly successful Ant Group.
Tech millionaire Jack Ma hasn’t been seen in public for 10 months. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
His success, and those of many other Chinese billionaires, risked undermining the Party’s core principles.
“The rich should bring others along with them … focusing on hard work and legally compliant operations,” Beijing’s new Common Prosperity Policy proclaims.
Greed is good?
Lush golden fields. Joyous citizens in colourful traditional dress. Smiling workers selflessly labouring for the common good.
Such are the scenes flooding Chinese state-controlled media. But nothing’s ever that simple.
High-profile performers have been falling foul of the Communist Party in recent years.
Their celebrity makes them choice examples. And easy targets.
In 2018, actress Fan Bingbing suddenly disappeared from her high-profile life without warning. Several months later, a humbled Fan made a public apology for not paying her taxes.
She’s barely been seen since.
Fan Bingbing at Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Last week, television actress Zheng Shuang was fined $62 million. She’d allegedly attempted to hide the full extent of her income – a time-honoured tradition in the west. Several corporations were also named, shamed and issued fines totalling more than a billion dollars.
The fate of billionaire actress Zhao Wei – who suddenly had her name censored on social media and appearances removed from streaming platforms – remains the subject of speculation.
What did she do to enrage the Party?
Some point to her close working relationships with Japan and Taiwan. Others suggest her entertainment company had leveraged too much debt.
“Any business that is making huge profits but doesn’t provide tangible goods that the [Chinese Communist] Party thinks society needs had better watch out,” China analyst Wen Zhao warns.
Helmsman Xi’s said it himself.
His speeches talk of preventing “irrational expansion of capital”. They warn of the “barbarous growth” of private corporations. He insists his commissars must “guide companies to obey the Party’s leadership”.
Operation Chaotic Rectification
Helmsman Xi Jinping’s vision of Common Prosperity requires rules. Lots of them.
The technology sector has been targeted. As has the insurance and education sectors.
But entertainment has earned the highest-profile treatment.
On Friday, August 27, the Cybersecurity Administration launched a campaign to crush the “rice circle” (wealthy power bloc) of the Chinese film industry.
It prohibits “celebrity worship”. It regulates “fan community chaos”. It requires compliance with official Communist Party values.
Actress Zhao Wei has been erased. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images for Sun SevenStars Media
Actor Zheng wasn’t only in trouble over taxes. She’d created a scandal by allegedly abandoning two surrogate children. Xi exacted his price. Zheng announced: “I apologise for the bad effects caused by my surrogacy, and I am willing to accept criticism and teaching from the public.”
Actor Zhao wasn’t only taking risks and wielding power as a billionaire. She’d been seen to be cosying up with China’s greatest cultural enemies. No public admission of wrongdoing and acceptance of State authority has yet been made.
With Xi Jinping Thought now compulsory teaching in schools, the Communist Youth League has taken up the battle cry “virtue before artistry” – and is actively encouraging members to report any “violation of morality”.
Common Prosperity
The idea isn’t anything new. As far back as 1953, Great Helmsman Mao Zedong announced the goal of eliminating exploitation of the public and conquering poverty.
Chairman Deng Xiaoping embraced this idea. He just allowed some to get rich faster.
Helmsman Xi Jinping believes it’s time to collect.
“We can allow some people to get rich first and then guide and help others to get rich together,” he said, “but we must also do our best to establish a ‘scientific’ public policy system that allows for fairer income distribution.”
Xi has claimed victory in eliminating poverty.
A customer browses clothing similar to those worn by celebrity idols. Picture: Jade Gao/AFP
It took a massive private sector incentive campaign to do so.
But now, Xi believes it’s time to reign in the entrepreneurial spirit and replace it with the ideology of common prosperity.
At the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s foundation in July, Helmsman Xi set out his navigation plan.
“The Party has no special interests of its own — it has never represented any individual interest group, power group, or privileged stratum,” he said. “As we have fought to establish and consolidate our leadership over the country, we have in fact been fighting to earn and keep the people’s support”.
It’s a case of back to the future.
“We must continue to adapt the basic tenets of Marxism to China’s specific realities and its fine traditional culture. We will use Marxism to observe, understand, and steer the trends of our times, and continue to develop the Marxism of contemporary China and in the 21st century.”
But no dissent will be tolerated.
“We must tighten the Party’s organisational system, remain committed to improving Party conduct, upholding integrity, and combating corruption, and root out any elements that would harm the Party’s advanced nature and purity and any viruses that would erode its health.”
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Don’t put your expectations too high or I would say you don’t need to be surprised at what CCP is doing to China, after all, he is primary school student at best for academics, you can’t ask for too much.
furthermore he is not placed in that position with mandate, he doesn’t need to answer to anyone.
with all these, the liberation of China won’t be too far away. Once that happens, the world will be cleaner and importantly quieter.
furthermore he is not placed in that position with mandate, he doesn’t need to answer to anyone.
with all these, the liberation of China won’t be too far away. Once that happens, the world will be cleaner and importantly quieter.
Millions caught in China’s celebrity ban
Wenlei Ma
If you go after the K-Pop fans, you must be feeling pretty invincible.
Chinese social media network Weibo has banned 22 fan accounts dedicated to Korean bands including BTS and Blackpink as part of a wider government crackdown on celebrity fan culture.
The latest action comes after one BTS fan account, which had 1.1 million members, crowdfunded for a stunt to celebrate Park Jimin’s 26th birthday. According to Al-Jazeera, the group raised $US150,000 within three minutes and $US360,000 within the hour.
The money went towards wrapping an entire Jeju Air plane with Jimin’s image as well as a celebratory message.
Weibo said it was suspending the account for 60 days for supposed illegal fundraising and also what it called “irrational star-chasing behaviour”, according to The New York Times.
Soon afterwards, Weibo suspended 21 other fan accounts for 30 days. Between the accounts, millions of fans have been caught in the crackdown.
Weibo’s move comes as the Chinese government turned its attention to celebrity and pop culture as part of a suite of social controls in the 100th anniversary year of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Last week, the government’s National Radio and Television Administration issued a series of dictates which tightened controls on TV content it said was “unhealthy”. It included a ban on what it views as “effeminate men”, criticising male actors who wore “excessive” make-up.
The ban also extended to reality TV shows that voted off contestants, unless the voting was done by a live audience, and talent search TV competitions or “idol audition shows” that groomed the next generation of stars.
BTS has legion of fans around the world, including in China. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
BTS has legion of fans around the world, including in China. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
It encouraged TV programs that would promote socialist, traditional or patriotic values and that actors and celebrities with the “wrong” political or moral values should not be featured in projects.
It also struck out at “vulgar internet” celebrities as it condemned online fan culture as “chaotic”. Earlier, the government banned online rankings of celebrities.
The government has also restricted people under 18’s online video gaming time to one hour a day on Fridays, weekends and public holidays.
Chinese celebrities have become a target for a government that appears to be seeking a wind-back of modern pop culture and fandoms.
Actor and billionaire Zhao Wei, who first broke out in the late 1990s, has had her online presence scrubbed in China. Her TV shows and films have been removed from all online platforms, her fan pages were taken down and hashtags referring to her were also censored.
Zhao Wei’s work has been scrubbed from the internet in China. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images
Zhao Wei’s work has been scrubbed from the internet in China. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images
No official reason has been given for Zhao Wei’s “cancellation” but she is an associate of Jack Ma, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who disappeared from public view for several months last year amid a government crackdown of the tech sector.
Among other celebrities to be caught in the net of the government’s crackdown is Zheng Shuang, who was fined $US46 million for tax evasion, and Zhang Zhehan who saw his work scrubbed from the internet after an old photo of him posing at a Japanese shrine resurfaced.
International star Fan Bingbing was the first high-profile actor to be targeted in 2018 when she disappeared from public view for four months. She was later required to repay $US70 million in unpaid taxes.
State broadcaster CCTV said last week, “For some time now, artists’ moral failures and legal violations, the cultivation of younger idols and chaotic fandoms have attracted widespread attention society”.
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Wenlei Ma
If you go after the K-Pop fans, you must be feeling pretty invincible.
Chinese social media network Weibo has banned 22 fan accounts dedicated to Korean bands including BTS and Blackpink as part of a wider government crackdown on celebrity fan culture.
The latest action comes after one BTS fan account, which had 1.1 million members, crowdfunded for a stunt to celebrate Park Jimin’s 26th birthday. According to Al-Jazeera, the group raised $US150,000 within three minutes and $US360,000 within the hour.
The money went towards wrapping an entire Jeju Air plane with Jimin’s image as well as a celebratory message.
Weibo said it was suspending the account for 60 days for supposed illegal fundraising and also what it called “irrational star-chasing behaviour”, according to The New York Times.
Soon afterwards, Weibo suspended 21 other fan accounts for 30 days. Between the accounts, millions of fans have been caught in the crackdown.
Weibo’s move comes as the Chinese government turned its attention to celebrity and pop culture as part of a suite of social controls in the 100th anniversary year of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Last week, the government’s National Radio and Television Administration issued a series of dictates which tightened controls on TV content it said was “unhealthy”. It included a ban on what it views as “effeminate men”, criticising male actors who wore “excessive” make-up.
The ban also extended to reality TV shows that voted off contestants, unless the voting was done by a live audience, and talent search TV competitions or “idol audition shows” that groomed the next generation of stars.
BTS has legion of fans around the world, including in China. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
BTS has legion of fans around the world, including in China. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
It encouraged TV programs that would promote socialist, traditional or patriotic values and that actors and celebrities with the “wrong” political or moral values should not be featured in projects.
It also struck out at “vulgar internet” celebrities as it condemned online fan culture as “chaotic”. Earlier, the government banned online rankings of celebrities.
The government has also restricted people under 18’s online video gaming time to one hour a day on Fridays, weekends and public holidays.
Chinese celebrities have become a target for a government that appears to be seeking a wind-back of modern pop culture and fandoms.
Actor and billionaire Zhao Wei, who first broke out in the late 1990s, has had her online presence scrubbed in China. Her TV shows and films have been removed from all online platforms, her fan pages were taken down and hashtags referring to her were also censored.
Zhao Wei’s work has been scrubbed from the internet in China. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images
Zhao Wei’s work has been scrubbed from the internet in China. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images
No official reason has been given for Zhao Wei’s “cancellation” but she is an associate of Jack Ma, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who disappeared from public view for several months last year amid a government crackdown of the tech sector.
Among other celebrities to be caught in the net of the government’s crackdown is Zheng Shuang, who was fined $US46 million for tax evasion, and Zhang Zhehan who saw his work scrubbed from the internet after an old photo of him posing at a Japanese shrine resurfaced.
International star Fan Bingbing was the first high-profile actor to be targeted in 2018 when she disappeared from public view for four months. She was later required to repay $US70 million in unpaid taxes.
State broadcaster CCTV said last week, “For some time now, artists’ moral failures and legal violations, the cultivation of younger idols and chaotic fandoms have attracted widespread attention society”.
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Whatever xi jinping is doing, I am sure he gets the support from the majority of chinese people who are poor and not so well educated
Like how umno got to power.
Like how umno got to power.
Wow... U jin understanding, cik
Toagong, xi idealogy, is now actively discussed at at big companies level, sg should also learn De wohIf you're looking at the economic improvements... that happened under Deng Xiaoping.
Winnie will undo everything very quickly. He's an imbecile who fantasizes himself as Mao version 2.0.
The Tiongs who managed to get out of China should thank their lucky stars... it will be near impossible to do that in the near future.
Always use majority to hijack the middle class
Tiagong, Hungry for huat la huat la ish very good De woh, sound familiar?Why China is erasing the rich and famous
September 4, 2021 - 12:58PM
A film star, the head of Interpol and one of China's wealthiest investors have gone missing after apparently falling afoul of the Communist Party. The message to Chinese citizens is clear: No matter who you are, the party can get you.
“Helmsman” Xi Jinping is changing course.
The mega-wealthy. Supremely popular celebrities. He sees these as products of Western ideology. Now he wants to impose a new “Common Prosperity” – with Chinese characteristics.
The sudden ‘erasure’ of billionaire singer and actress Zhao Wei from China’s social media and entertainment platforms marks a dramatic change in the nation’s course.
It should come as no surprise.
Successful star Zhao Wei no longer exists on the Chinese internet. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Jaeger-LeCoultre
Chairman Xi awarded himself the title of “core navigator and helmsman” last year. Previously it had been reserved only for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) greatest revolutionary hero, Chairman Mao Zedong.
The honorific imparts ultimate authority. It entrenched the ambitious Chairman as the sole controller of every aspect of Chinese society.
And Helmsman Xi doesn’t like what he sees. Influential celebrities. Rich entrepreneurs.
The Helmsman sees these as dangerous capitalist reefs upon which the great ship the Party state could be wrecked. So he’s spun the helm over, hard.
“Capitalism with Chinese characteristics” has had its day. Helmsman Xi wants to guide his people to a new era of “Common Prosperity”.
But that’s not enough. He’s also embarking on a massive social re-engineering project to clear the path of any possible threat.
Troubled waters
Communist China embarked on an era of reform and “opening up” in the 1980s.
The stated policy was “let some people get rich first”. The idea was this would accelerate the nation’s drive to modernise its economy.
It worked. But it came with a price.
The rich quickly became super-rich. Others became immensely popular.
Combined, that meant individuals wielded significant influence and power on both the national and international scale.
But that was supposed to be the sole domain of the Party. Communism has clashed with capitalism.
A screen shows a video of celebrity idols at a fan merchandise store at a shopping mall in Beijing. Picture: Jade Gao/AFP
Helmsman Xi sees the immense individual wealth of entrepreneurs as a source of competing power. It also represents severe economic risk. The fate of enormous companies taking on massive debt as part of their global dominance games could drag China upwards – or downwards.
That may be why the Communist Party ‘disappeared’ tech billionaire Jack Ma and terminated the public float – issuing of shares – of his wildly successful Ant Group.
Tech millionaire Jack Ma hasn’t been seen in public for 10 months. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
His success, and those of many other Chinese billionaires, risked undermining the Party’s core principles.
“The rich should bring others along with them … focusing on hard work and legally compliant operations,” Beijing’s new Common Prosperity Policy proclaims.
Greed is good?
Lush golden fields. Joyous citizens in colourful traditional dress. Smiling workers selflessly labouring for the common good.
Such are the scenes flooding Chinese state-controlled media. But nothing’s ever that simple.
High-profile performers have been falling foul of the Communist Party in recent years.
Their celebrity makes them choice examples. And easy targets.
In 2018, actress Fan Bingbing suddenly disappeared from her high-profile life without warning. Several months later, a humbled Fan made a public apology for not paying her taxes.
She’s barely been seen since.
Fan Bingbing at Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Last week, television actress Zheng Shuang was fined $62 million. She’d allegedly attempted to hide the full extent of her income – a time-honoured tradition in the west. Several corporations were also named, shamed and issued fines totalling more than a billion dollars.
The fate of billionaire actress Zhao Wei – who suddenly had her name censored on social media and appearances removed from streaming platforms – remains the subject of speculation.
What did she do to enrage the Party?
Some point to her close working relationships with Japan and Taiwan. Others suggest her entertainment company had leveraged too much debt.
“Any business that is making huge profits but doesn’t provide tangible goods that the [Chinese Communist] Party thinks society needs had better watch out,” China analyst Wen Zhao warns.
Helmsman Xi’s said it himself.
His speeches talk of preventing “irrational expansion of capital”. They warn of the “barbarous growth” of private corporations. He insists his commissars must “guide companies to obey the Party’s leadership”.
Operation Chaotic Rectification
Helmsman Xi Jinping’s vision of Common Prosperity requires rules. Lots of them.
The technology sector has been targeted. As has the insurance and education sectors.
But entertainment has earned the highest-profile treatment.
On Friday, August 27, the Cybersecurity Administration launched a campaign to crush the “rice circle” (wealthy power bloc) of the Chinese film industry.
It prohibits “celebrity worship”. It regulates “fan community chaos”. It requires compliance with official Communist Party values.
Actress Zhao Wei has been erased. Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images for Sun SevenStars Media
Actor Zheng wasn’t only in trouble over taxes. She’d created a scandal by allegedly abandoning two surrogate children. Xi exacted his price. Zheng announced: “I apologise for the bad effects caused by my surrogacy, and I am willing to accept criticism and teaching from the public.”
Actor Zhao wasn’t only taking risks and wielding power as a billionaire. She’d been seen to be cosying up with China’s greatest cultural enemies. No public admission of wrongdoing and acceptance of State authority has yet been made.
With Xi Jinping Thought now compulsory teaching in schools, the Communist Youth League has taken up the battle cry “virtue before artistry” – and is actively encouraging members to report any “violation of morality”.
Common Prosperity
The idea isn’t anything new. As far back as 1953, Great Helmsman Mao Zedong announced the goal of eliminating exploitation of the public and conquering poverty.
Chairman Deng Xiaoping embraced this idea. He just allowed some to get rich faster.
Helmsman Xi Jinping believes it’s time to collect.
“We can allow some people to get rich first and then guide and help others to get rich together,” he said, “but we must also do our best to establish a ‘scientific’ public policy system that allows for fairer income distribution.”
Xi has claimed victory in eliminating poverty.
A customer browses clothing similar to those worn by celebrity idols. Picture: Jade Gao/AFP
It took a massive private sector incentive campaign to do so.
But now, Xi believes it’s time to reign in the entrepreneurial spirit and replace it with the ideology of common prosperity.
At the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s foundation in July, Helmsman Xi set out his navigation plan.
“The Party has no special interests of its own — it has never represented any individual interest group, power group, or privileged stratum,” he said. “As we have fought to establish and consolidate our leadership over the country, we have in fact been fighting to earn and keep the people’s support”.
It’s a case of back to the future.
“We must continue to adapt the basic tenets of Marxism to China’s specific realities and its fine traditional culture. We will use Marxism to observe, understand, and steer the trends of our times, and continue to develop the Marxism of contemporary China and in the 21st century.”
But no dissent will be tolerated.
“We must tighten the Party’s organisational system, remain committed to improving Party conduct, upholding integrity, and combating corruption, and root out any elements that would harm the Party’s advanced nature and purity and any viruses that would erode its health.”
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Imagine 1 billion hungry consumers who want to jiak beef rideye and sushi every meal, this world can substain meh?
Aka Multi polar world
Empreor Xi also see many bg shot sirs raise to power and becum mini power centers, if this continue, China will go back to Spring AUTMUM Warring states
Ask any chinese, they will jump at chance to go USA. First treat your own citizens well then others will admire you
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