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I was wrong. This Yang Lanlan, the woman who was drunk driving,
crashing her million-dollar Rolls Royce in Sydney, Australia in the middle of the night,
well, she does have a mysterious identity tying her to a powerful CCP family. Why?
Well, because the number one barking dog for the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Xijin,
has come out defending and whitewashing what she had done in Australia. And Hu Xijin doesn't just
bark for anything. He barks to defend the image of the CCP. And like this comment says,
I wait for Mr. Hu to comment. If he doesn't lick the boot, that means Yang Lanlan is only rich,
not powerful. If he licks the boot, it means Yang is powerful, but not at the top.
Now that he has gone all out, this means that Yang is probably a top brass. And I do believe
it too. Some of the rumors floating around, like suggesting that she's the fourth generation
offspring of a powerful CCP military family, or another version of this is that she's actually
a secret child of Xi Jinping, who had an affair with an opera singer back in the 1990s,
and now they reside in Australia. But regardless, the objective truth is that we can't find any
information about her. And so people in China have been giving her, or people like her,
the nickname of celestial dragons, or the descendants of celestial dragons,
meaning that they were imprinted with the blessings of the celestials of having a good,
fortunate life, you know, born into this family of power. But let's just stick with the latest.
As you watch this video, Yang Lanlan had already appeared virtually in court for her pretrial,
I believe, where her lawyers argue that right now is not the time to plead guilty or not guilty
because the police investigation is still going on. She will be due back in court again in about
six weeks time. But she didn't show up physically. A lot of people were waiting in front of the
courthouse for her to show up, but she obviously didn't show up. And as the case proceeds,
it seems like she's going to hire a very good team of lawyers to defend her. A few days ago,
she was out and about, and she was caught on camera wearing a custom vintage Chanel
jacket with a matching hat. And these are priced at, according to the Daily Mail,
more than $18,000 and that matching cap retailing at over $3,000. So she's obviously rich, right?
She also paired it with a Miu Miu glasses at $750. Now, when confronted by the Daily Mail reporter,
she didn't say anything. She didn't respond. She just entered a Toyota Vellfire van,
which is priced at about $100,000. I assume this is Australian dollars, so maybe about $80,000 to
$90,000 USD. And obviously this is her version of keeping it low profile.
Still pretty high profile for most people, but in her level, that's low profile. But the question
or the center of attention are the jewelry she was wearing. So she had earrings and the jacket
brooch, which apparently are believed to be custom designed and only for the clientele who don't
ask for the price, but rather the taste only. And so again, this is all reporting from the Daily
Mail. Apparently, insiders say that it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars, which again,
you know, it's fair for her, right? Now, there's no doubt that she's rich. It's if her richness
comes from power or from some sort of, say, dark business like money laundering and who does she
work for, right? So that's where people are kind of confused still, because there's really no
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So check out the membership tab and sign up today to support us. Okay, so let's dive into the rumors
about her identity. The first one is pretty simple. The rumors basically allege that she
is a secret child of Xi Jinping. Yang Lanlan is not her real name. Her real name is Xi Minglan,
which for anyone that's been following for a while, Xi's real daughter's name is Xi Mingze.
So Xi Minglan is supposed to be the real name. But obviously, in the Australian media,
in her official court names, they all say Yang Lanlan. So this idea of it being an official
name is probably only in China. Or if the fact that Yang Lanlan is supposed to be a pseudonym,
it's still the officially registered name in Australia. So that part, it doesn't matter.
Allegedly, she's the secret love child of Xi Jinping, who had an affair with a Cantonese
opera singer, or I guess you would call it a Canto opera singer, not really Cantonese,
but Canto-style opera singer. You look at her Wikipedia, she's disappeared in 1999.
She basically hasn't performed since then. And if we compare the age of Yang Lanlan, she's 23,
so she would have been born in 2002. It could line up if Xi Jinping did have an affair while
he was in the province of Zhejiang for his roles there. But then again, there's nothing like zero
concrete evidence suggesting that this is the case, other than some speculations. And also,
some people took it a step further saying that, look, Yang Lanlan, when you compare the photos
here, looks like Xi Jinping's mother, right? Xi Xin is the mother of Xi Jinping. You look at the
nose and everything. Someone even did an AI analysis. It looks about 70% accurate from each
other. Or if you take the younger photos of Xi Jinping, maybe it kind of looks like her. Again,
I don't see the similarities at all, but that's exactly what rumors are, right? It gets us
thinking, and we can analyze whether this would be true or not. I'm not saying there's no
possibility that this could happen, because the very ideas of mistresses or extramarital affairs
or even secret children, that's the normal thing for CCP officials. So at Xi Jinping's
level and his tenure, yeah, they're bound to have a few. So that's not the strange part, right?
But the strange part for me would be that if this was indeed Yang Lanlan, a secret child of Xi Jinping,
I still don't think the CCP wants to escalate the situation beyond one of traffic violations or
minor criminal charges. Because I mean, the more publicity this one generates,
the worse it is for the CCP, right? Public opinion aside, they just don't want their people to be
involved in these types of situations. Now, considering the fact that what is true in
these cases is the fact that Xi Jinping's family does have heavy ties to Australia.
Xi's younger brother, Xi Yuanping, does business in Australia, even holds an Australian national
citizenship. And Xi's family, obviously, according to Bloomberg and various other
news outlets reports in 2012, but still more recent as well, they have a lot of wealth overseas.
Part of that is in Australia, some of their relatives are there. So although Xi Jinping
has told his family to tighten up their overseas assets, it seems like they still have a lot of
money, right? Because considering the fact that Xi Jinping was trying to protect his political image,
doesn't mean his family can't profit off of it in the same sort of fashion. You got to remember
though, like none of this actually points to Yang Lanlan being anywhere connected, right? Directly
or indirectly. So let's talk about our second version of this. And this also in some levels
involves Xi Jinping as well. But this one is more complicated and more detailed. So I'll try my best
to be clear on what I'm trying to say here. So the second version of the rumor suggests
that Yang Lanlan isn't a secret child, but rather a fourth generation offspring of a powerful or
prominent CCP military family. In fact, two of them. So Yang's grandma is the daughter of a
PLA former defense minister of the People's Liberation Army named Chen Jingwei. The grandma
got married with the son of a PLA general named Yang Chengwu, whose home base is down in Fujian.
So Yang Lanlan's great-grandpa is a PLA general who took special care of Xi Jinping when she went
down to Fujian to assume the role of deputy mayor in Xiamen. And her great-grandpa on the mother's
side, so these are all Yang Lanlan's great-grandpa on the mother's side, was the defense minister
and his name was Chen Jingwei. So the Chen family and the Yang family basically had a marriage
through Yang Lanlan's grandma and grandpa. And that's how these two military families got
together. And it just happens that the Yang family helped Xi Jinping out when he was the deputy mayor
in Xiamen. Okay, I hope that makes sense right now. If not, just go back and pause and re-watch
it. I'll try to summarize as we go. Okay, so Yang Lanlan's great-uncle, so the older brother of the
grandma, actually had this one famous incident back in 2007, which a lot of this you can
verifiably find a lot of information on. So a lot of the information you can actually verify by
searching online because a lot of it still exists. So I'll start with the great-uncle incident,
which he basically smashed up a place involving soldiers. So this happened in 2007, okay, so the
Now what happened was he was in this like spa, so the hotel has a spa, and the spa, he went there
to meet an old friend, they were watching the World Cup. He broke a mug, like a tea cup or a mug,
some sort of thing that was broken. Anyways, he offered to pay for it. So when he checked out,
he went to the front desk and he offered to pay for it. And the front desk says that they were
asking for 50 yuan for the price of the mug. And Chen obviously said that, well, it's too much,
like this is nothing worth more than like maybe 10 yuan or something like that. So he wasn't
willing to pay that. And then he said, I would talk to the manager, that would be 500. So they
jacked off the price, they were trying to scam him, right? And obviously, when the manager arrived,
it somehow turned into this whole argument, and apparently Chen smashed another mug. And then
basically, they had a bunch of thugs that came out. So this place was kind of like a mafia run,
sort of a shady place, right? So the driver for Chen thought they would be in danger. So he went
to the car, he grabbed 1,000 yuan and gave it to them, and they left. Now, when they returned to
the military base, one of the senior officers heard the story and basically said, OK, we got
to get you back, right? Like you lost your honor, like they're so bad there. And he took five trucks
full of soldiers, some of them with guns, some of them with shovels. They went to the place,
they just smashed everything up, like destroyed the place. And so then Chen called the provincial
level leaders and told them what happened. And they basically said, well, we're not going to
intervene in what just happened. You deal with it, right? So he has some influence, obviously.
Now, this literally sounds like a made-up story, but it's true. I'm literally reading off of the
articles as I'm telling you this. And there's a lot of different versions of this. But it sort
of became an urban legend in the sense that it's so unbelievable that this could happen.
So yeah, it's pretty bizarre. But anyways, the father side of Yang Lanlan, the Yang family,
the great-grandpa fought in the anti-Japanese war. He later became sort of the commanding officers
in that area of Fujian. He essentially grew his power base there. And eventually,
when Xi Jinping came to take on the role of deputy mayor, he had a lot of influence there.
He basically backed up Xi Jinping that way and helped him to secure his promotion through the
ranks later on. So even Xi Jinping is quite thankful for what he did in that sense. Basically,
it helped to kickstart Xi Jinping's career. So to some level, I guess you would say that
Yang Lanlan allegedly is connected to Xi Jinping, just not a father and daughter situation.
But anyways, the point is that this is all still a rumor, right? There's, again,
the information suggesting that these are real people, you can find that,
no problem. But to suggest that this is somehow tied to Yang Lanlan, again,
same last name, yes, but there's no way we can tell. So the point of this is that
all of this is just speculation because we can't get any information, right? It just so
happens that some people provide more detailed speculations than others. But something interesting
was that the alleged grandma of Yang Lanlan had been involved in this gold company that was
listed until 2020 on the NASDAQ. So more than a dozen Chinese financial institutions,
mainly trust companies, loaned about 20 billion yuan or about 2.8 billion USD worth over the past
five years, this was 2020, to a company called Wuhan King Gold Jewelry Incorporated. And this
is pure gold as collaterals with insurance policies to cover any losses. But then it was
found that at least some of the 83 tons of gold bars that had been used for collateral for the
loan turns out to be nothing but like plated copper. So it was a huge issue in China, the scandal.
So it seems like to some level, allegedly, the grandma, or at least the grandma's side
of the family had been involved in some business. Could this be a way where they laundered money to
Australia through Yang Lanlan and that's how she got all the money? Possible, right? We don't know.
But the point is, it's just her identity and what the response from the state, from the CCP has been,
it just calls into question that she's not a simple person who just has money, or she's powerful but
not quite there. Now it seems like she's really powerful, really rich, and there's definitely
people who want to protect her. So that's it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Do you
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