Behind Xi’s Tibet Trip: The Secret deal and Zhang Youxia’s move

Hello. Hello everyone. Hi. Welcome to Lays Roll Talk. I was just reading comments and I saw someone said that he is a redneck from Los Angeles. Well, welcome. You know that Lei aspires to uh to be a redneck. All right. Welcome to Lelay's Real Talk. Well, uh we're at the end of August. Believe it or not, the summer is almost behind us and I hope everyone has had a great summer. Yes. Okay. So, for the month of August, all eyes have been on on the CCP's secret behings and on the fate of Xiinping's power. Will he continue to rule after the fourth party plenum? Or will he be forced into some kind of partial retirement? Speculation has been running wild. After showing up at the Great Hall of the People on July 25th to receive credentials from 16 newly arrived ambassadors, Xiinping disappeared from the public view for more than 20 days. In that time, his minister of international leazison department uh here we go. There there we go. uh is rumored to be detained for in for investigation. Then came a bizarre story, a million dollar car crash in Sydney, Australia, involving a 23-year-old woman allegedly linked to the Shei family. Rumors swirled that she himself had been admitted to the 301 military hospital and that three top medical experts from Shanghai were flown into Beijing to see him. Then guess what? On August the 20th, yesterday, Xiinping suddenly reappeared, making what state media hyped as a grand comeback. I mean, they didn't really say that, but the way they promoted his uh appearance in in Tibet is suggesting that it's a grand comeback. So he showed up in Tibet with a massive entourage as if he's saying I'm back. So um let me see. Do I have a picture of him? Oh, there he is. Um in in Lassa Lassa in the square where they held the celebration, there was a giant portrait of Xiinping erected in the main square and state media glorified him this time with the title Lingu or Supreme Leader and even the PLA daily resumed calling him the core. The message was clear. The regime wanted to show she's grip on power and to show that it was unshakable. Meanwhile, Beijing itself has gone into a kind of semilockdown in preparation for the upcoming military parade on September 3rd. Um, which is the parade to commemorate the victory uh in World War II. The PLA spokesperson has confirmed that Xiinping will inspect the troops that day. But the level of tension surrounding the preparations is so unusual that many are asking, is this really about a parade or could it be a disguised military showdown led by she's rival General Jang Yosia? So these developments may all be tied to a temporary deal Xiinping struck with his rivals at Betai. Let's break this down. I'll first tell you about the Bahai consensus. Then Xiinping's Tibet trip. Last but not least, General Jang's parade preparation, which is anything but unusual. So, first things first, let me um first tell you about um what Mr. Woo, where's Mr. Woo? Oh, here's the here's the portrait. a portrait in Tibet in Lassa. There we go. The Supreme Leader is back. Okay. So, here's Mr. Woo, one of the dissident living in the US. And so, on August the 15th, he posted what he called the four the fourpoint consensus of the Beta meeting. Um so these are the agreement or temporary agreement that Xiinping had reached with his rivals or this is the temporary agreement that all factions have reached. So there are four points. The first one is to maintain the stability of the party's central leadership. Um Xiinping will remain in his post and continue to play the role of the top leader. State propaganda should stay consistent about his status, but excessive personal worship will no longer be allowed. Point number two, Xiinping will not be permitted to serve in another term. Number three, party, government, and military powers will be relatively separated. Number four, the party's coordinating bodies will oversee preparations for the fourth platinum and begin laying the groundwork for the 21st party congress in 2027. So to me, this consensus looks like a deadlock. It basically says she will step down eventually in 2027 at the 21st party congress, but until then, no one knows what to do with him. So, for now, we'll keep him in place until figuring out the next move. Um, that explains why state media suddenly revived the Xiinping core, the core title, right? the and it also explains why um Pawi Daily fell in line and why Xiinping needed such a dramatic display in Tibet. So let me talk about his trip to Tibet Tibet. Well, officially his visit was to attend the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region or the establishment of the uh autonomous region of Tibet. It was established in 1965, six years after the 14th Dalai Lama fled into exile in India following the failed 1959 uprising. But here's what's odd about the trip. I have summarized I think seven points. Um first of all, he didn't need to go at all. Shiinping didn't have to go. uh the 60th anniversary which is this year isn't as significant as the 50th. In fact, back in 2015, 10 years ago, Xiinping didn't attend the 50th anniversary. He sent Polo Standing Committee member uh Eugen instead. At the time, Yu's rank was about the same as Wan Huning's rank today. This time, Xiinping went in person, likely because he he desperately needed a high-profile event to show he's still in command or as some people believe that he desperately needed divine protections and so he visited the um the holy place in Lassa, the holy place of Tibetan tantism. So some people believe that he needs some uh spiritual guidance in Tibet. All right. Um so that's point number one. Why I believe it's unusual, right? He didn't have to go but he went. Number two, he brought an unusually large and entourage. Two standing committee members joined him. Woning uh Oh yeah. Th this is this was the event. So he brought Wang Huning, the head of the head of the CPPCC, and also um Tai Chi, his right-hand man, and the chief um the chief in charge, his right-hand man in charge of party affairs. And alongside them were Let me see where were Chris has helped me with pictures. Oh, here's Yeah. So here you have who is the minister of United Front, head of the United Front work, vice premier in charge of um economy, the economy, Janguin, another vice premere, and then Wang Xiaoong uh the minister of public security. Uh there's a vice chairman of the National People's Congress uh who's a Tibetan Lan Jam Kang Jam Kong and then Hua vice chairman of the CPPCC and then Jang Ming central military commission member in charge of military discipline and anti-corruption. Now the strangest part is Hungua because um as you all know now that he is in the anti-shi camp and he's one of the names floated as a possible successor to Xiinping and she has worked so hard to sideline Hu Jun Hua. So it's highly unlikely that Xiinping invited Hu to join him on this trip. And also Hutin Huang wasn't needed for this trip because his boss CPPCC chairman Wong Huning was already on the trip. Normally if the chairman goes, the vice chairman stays behind. The fact that who went anyway shows that the reformist faction or the camp insisted on sending who um just as checks and balances and Xiinping had no choice but to accepted. Okay, so that's point number two. Now point number three, Xiinping wasn't even the head of his entourage. State media reported that Wan Huning and not Xiinping was listed as head of the delegation from Beijing. This is highly unusual um by CCP's own protocol. The highest ranking official always leads the delegation. Number four, Xiinping left Tibet early. Not only was he not the head of the delegation, but he also cut his visit short. He stayed in Lassa for less than 24 hours. Compare that to his last visit in 2021 where he stayed for 3 days. This time he ar this is very short. He arrived on the 20th and then left on the 21st. It's not even 24 hours. Even stranger, the officials who traveled with him, the the his entourage, the the people that I just showed you on previous slides, they didn't return to Beijing with him. They simply went to the Lassa airport to see him off and then stayed behind to finish their business. Isn't that unusual? And then there's a missing man on this trip. I think you probably can guess that. Yes, his vice chairman Jang Yosha. Now, despite the large entourage, vice chairman of Central Military Commission, Jang Yosha was nowhere to be seen. In fact, Xiinping and Jang Yoa haven't appeared together for quite some time now. And this Tibet trip was she's fifth domestic visit of 2025, but the first time he inspected local troops. in the previous four visits. Uh he broke his tradition of always visiting local troops. Um and that actually was one of the reasons why people say that he has lost power um or he has lost control over the military because he stopped visiting local troops. now in Tibet he he went um but he in in in in all all this time um usually or I shouldn't say usually it's almost the case when the CMC chairman inspects troops his vice chairman should always accompany him but Juan wasn't there some might argue that well maybe Janga was busy preparing for the September 3rd parade if So the next in line, General Leo Jun Lee, uh the CMC's chief of staff um should should go in his place, right? But he didn't go either. Leo didn't go either. Instead, the man sent was Jang Shiming, the CMC member in charge of discipline and anti-corruption. Now, Janga isn't I'm sorry, not Jang Ming. This J isn't a field commander. He's a discip discip disciplinary officer. By tradition, someone in his capacity doesn't accompany the top commander to in to inspect troops because it's really sending the wrong message. Um, so having him sat next to Xiinping, let me in this photo. Do I have the photo? Oh yeah, here's the photo. Let me make this bigger. So, sitting to Xiinping's um left is Djang Ming. Um yeah, so that's Jang Shaming. So, yeah, he sat right next to to the left of Xiinping, right? So, this sends a very awkward message. Was he there to keep an eye on Xiinping? Why did a a um why did an officer in charge of um discipline and anti-corruption go on inspect the troops you know with Xiinping? It's just very odd. Now another absence is um this is very odd is that when Xiinping met with the Shing Jang military district officers, its commander, Lieutenant General Wang Kai here, here we go. He was absent. Okay. And then the man sitting um people say the man sitting next to him next to Xiinping on his right was his political commissar. Um so here's the here's the weird part. Now, why why would the commander of the Shing Jang military district absent when Xiinping is visiting, right? Um, and that's just very odd. So, here here's here's what people this is what people believe has happened. Um, Wankai is closely associated with Jang Yosha. He built his career in the 13th um and the 14th group armies, both considered Jang Yuan's strongholds. Now remember um I told you about uh a week ago that uh General Leo Yuan recently tooured Suchan and to rally support within the PLA. Well, the 13th group army is based in in Suchan in Chundu Suchan and the 14th is inn. So Wang Kai and Janga both held the title of commander of the 13th group army. Of course they were eight years apart. Um their ties to the 13th army make them close. um his absence from from Xiinping's reception alongside the absence of Jang Yua and Lio Juni all point in the same direction. It's a message from Janga which is that Shiin no longer commands the real muscle of the PLA. His activities now are mostly symbolic and Wankai's absence was almost certainly ordered by Jang Yoshia himself. And then point number seven, uh, Xiinping didn't look healthy. Footage from Tibet showed him walking slowly and sometimes even wobbly. Hold on, let me um play you the video. Uh, let me add to Yeah, here's him. A collage of video showing him walking in uh and he looked very sad. I mean, he just it wasn't enthusiastic at all. He met with different groups. [Applause] He looked very he wasn't enthusiastic as you could tell. Fore [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Okay, now you'll see the footage when he uh visit when he inspected the uh the Shing Jang military district officers and he looked very very unhappy and he moved extremely slow in this clip. Take a look. [Music] Okay. So, um I think the last clip where where you see him walk I mean he walking he's he walks he walks so slowly. I mean um anyway a medical expert actually said that um Lassa sits on the high altitude uh Tibetan plateau and people with heart conditions or poor health are not advised to travel there. Now Xiinping has cardiovascular condition. Um, a medical expert suggested that he must have undergone uh me health physical exams or tests at the 301 military hospital before the trip and perhaps the three doctors flow in from Shanghai were uh part were likely part of the team uh assessing whether he should he was fit to go or not. So um so that's what people believe because yeah going to uh Lassa the the high altitude you know a lot of people get sick because they're not used to the the high altitude. Um so taken together these signs suggest Xiinping's trip to Tibet was more about political theater than leadership. He was sent there to project unity and to reaffirm his status as party leader. But it came at the risk of his health because he didn't look too happy. Um um and also that is why he left within 24 hours leaving his entourage behind to carry out the actual duties because he could not his health could not afford to stay uh could not let him stay there for more uh for any longer. And meanwhile, Jang Yuan and the military deliberately distanced themselves. They sent only the lowest ranking CMC member and exclude the Shing Jang uh commander from she's reception. The message couldn't be clearer. Xiinping no longer commands the army. Now, let's talk about General Jang and the parade preparation in Beijing because it looks nothing like uh it doesn't look normal at all. I mean, in fact, Beijing, the capital city, has been anything but normal lately. Um, after the first rehearsal on August the 9th, the second one was staged on August the 16th, running from 5:30 p.m. all the way till the um uh till 3:30 the next morning uh with some 40,000 personnel involved. And the second drill covered an even wider area, disrupting daily life on a massive scale. Shops closed early, soldiers guarded intersections and overpasses, and residents filmed a long convoy of tanks and armored vehicles rumbling into the city day and night. And one video went viral. Uh, let me play you the video. It's this one. I'm going to Yeah, this video um shows rows of tanks were blocked at an intersection by buses parked across the road. So, people are saying, "Was it just poor planning uh or was it intentional?" Some suggest this bizarre scene reflected deep divisions at the very top. Neither side wanted a fire firefight. Hold on, let me play this again. um they don't want to have an open fight on the streets. So buses may have been used as a lastditch effort to stop the tanks from advancing. The fact that someone dared to block the army speaks volumes. There are there there must be real disagreements or even open confrontation inside the system. Um although not everyone believes that this was intentional. Some people believe this could be um the result of a a poorly a poorly run uh drill. It's just poor planning. So the views are divided. Some believe it's just poor planning. Some people believe it's deliberate. Um but this year's parade preparation are unlike anything in the past. No previous parade involved live ammunition inside the capitol. Absolute not. But this time, reports say Jungan Park, right outside the Forbidden City, has been stocked with weapons and armor and military Hold on, let me see. Yeah. So, military personnel or military camps have sprung up in downtown Beijing and in these parks. Um, so here's a picture of people taken from a park where they show these um military men. They were stationed. They camped out in the parks and they've seen tanks and armored vehicles parked across the city and in earlier years now these uh defenses were always staged on this outskirts. They're not in the city. Now the sight of live weapons in the in the very heart of the capital has left residents asking is this really parade preparation or a soft coup disguised as one? Um, and you probably remember that I told you the unit deployed in Beijing is the 82nd Group Army, formerly the Elite 38th Army. Um and its presence the the the pre the presence of the 82nd army around the capital has fueled intense speculation because this army has always been a trump card in CCP power struggles based in Baing. It belongs to the central theater command the strongest of China's five theaters. Today the 82nd uh army number numbers about 86,000 troops. Um and its predecessor it used to be the 38th Army. The 38th Army had a story has a history of stepping into political crisis. So let me just give you a few examples of how this elite army um got involved in political uh crisis or political struggles. So in 1971 during the uh the famous September 13th incident when vice chairman of CMC Lingo tried to flee to Soviet Union, Maoadong ordered the 38th Army to move north of Beijing and block the airport and Lynn's plane eventually crashed in Mongolia quite possibly brought down by a missile. And in 1989, the 38th was one of the units sent to enforce martial law in Beijing. But its commander, General, refused to obey the order. And for that act of defiance, he was sentenced to five years in prison. Um, and he is accident uh I I'm proud to tell you that he is incidentally a distant relative of mine. Um in 2012 during the standoff between Huin Tao and Jangzaming whose camp deployed the 38th Army into Beijing to confront Janzamin's ally Joong Kong and in 2015 Jang Yua helped Xiinping by moving the 38th Army into Junghai disarming the Central Security Bureau uh and removing its chiefing. replacing him with men loyal to Xi Jinping. So yes, the 38th has always been at the center of CCP infighting and today its successor the 82nd carries the same weight and they are everywhere in Beijing and that makes people uh worry. So what's interesting on August the 16th the PL daily ran a remarkable article about this 82nd army and it was titled an 82nd group army brigade rebuilds the prestige of political counters. So the language was striking. It praises a beautiful turnaround and declare that telling the truth and reporting real situations is not only a party requirement but essential to winning battles. Now think about that under she absolute loyalty has meant falsified reports and doctorred information. So telling the truth reporting the facts is not Xiinping language. its reform era language. Even more telling, the article never once mentioned Xiinping, Xiinping thoughts or Xiinping's leadership. Instead, it closed with a praise for collective leadership and democratic centralism uh which are hallmarks of the reformist group. So, it reads something like this. It reads something like this. It says, "When democratic centralism becomes the golden key to building consensus and solving problems, when telling the truth and reporting facts becomes the hard standard for building combat power, the prestige of political carters will be rebuilt step by step. In other words, rather than deny deny rumors about 82 movements in the capital city, um the PLE daily doubled down. It sent a signal the focus is on collective leadership and not Xiinping. At this point, it seems clear that the central theater command is in Janguia's hands. And this bold article about the 82nd army was no accident. It was a declaration. Um, in this struggle, the guiding principles are party discipline, the central committee and collective leadership, Nashi Jinping. Um, so the reports of the 82nd's unusual deployment uh or unusual deployments were no baseless rumor. Um, with brigades stationed inside Beijing and near Jun Nanghai, the message is unmistakable. Xiinping may still act like he's in charge, but Janga is preparing his own counterattack. So, in short, Xiinping's Tibet trip, the Bai consensus, and the tense parade preparations all reveal one thing, which is that the CCP leadership is locked in stalemate. They want Shei to keep playing the role of leader to buy themselves time. Meanwhile, Jang Yuja is using the parade to tighten his grip on Beijing. She may insist on inspecting the troops, but his rivals are using the moment to show where real power lies. So, on September the 3, we will see a parade. But underneath this spectacle uh looms a dangerous test of power, right? But in my opinion, the biggest wild card of all isn't some soldier firing a shot. I don't think that will happen. But I think the the the biggest wild card of all is Xiinping's health. uh in the end his health may decide not just his fate but the party's fate as well. All right, so that's all I have. Oh, but I like to mention that um if you've enjoyed my video on the moon, you should enjoy this the sequel to that. Uh I think Chris made the best video or edited the best video he has ever he has ever done and it's released tonight. I think it has been released. Um, it's based on a a a fascinating story that I read about the history of the moon. Um, and it it's like uh it's a science fiction epic. Uh, so um the story is just is just fascinating. So I hope you will enjoy that. Uh yeah, it's uh So Chris, if you could paste the link um to help people find it, that would be great. So that's all that's all. Let me see. Okay. All right. Okay. Let me first uh address the people who have given me super stickers. I think I saw a few flying by. All right, let's see. Oh, here's one for global as a Tibetan and from Lassa. This is truly sad. This forced festivities to welcome the oppressor in front of the uh patala which is the Dalai Lama's home. It is Yeah. It shouldn't be a celebration. It's just a um it's just so ironic. Yeah, it's very sad. I agree with you. I agree with you entirely. Well, thank you very much for the for this for the support. Okay, moving on. Let's see. Okay. Well, uh, Chrissy, if you could share the link of the Looking Glass video. Okay, let's see. All right, let's see. Have I reached the bottom? If you have questions for me, put my name in front so I know it's uh addressed to me. Wise downer. Well, thank you, Wes. Sorry, Wes. Thank you, Wes. Um, okay. Okay, here's a question from someone said, "Shiinping will retire and start a YouTube channel." All right. I I doubt it. Okay. Seek the truth. Is it true that Wong Huning has been removed from power? No, not yet. I know there there he will go down with Xiinping and when Xiin Ping goes down he will um but as as long as Xiinping is still kept there I think he will they need him they need him around Xiinping so it looks like there's no change so it looks like it's status quo yeah so so his fate is tied with that of Xiinping Uh what someone asked me what do I think of the meeting between Wangi Wan and Modi best friends now? I think nowadays politics or geopolitics have really just I mean politicians are all actors now. They should earn Academy Awards for their performance. It's all political theater now, right? And it's like uh yeah, it's I think they just, you know, put out an act for us to believe what they want us to believe. I don't believe China and India are best friends. No. Someone asked me, "Do you think you're too negative about China? Do you know whoever interviewed whoever?" Oh, this Jin Cuin, you know who she is? Her father is an as a CCP official. You know, people like Jin Cu, you know, they are well educated in the West. They have all the academic credentials. I mean, she has a PhD in economics. Um, so there's a whole class of quote unquote experts like them and I think there are more of them now. So these are the second or the third generations of CCP elders who are sent to the west well educated in the west and then they are working in various think tanks or or educa you know educational in education institutions uh or even banks right they hold these key they they appear as experts But their whole goal is to defend the CCP because their family's prestige is tied to the longevity of the regime. So these very western um looking well-educated quote unquote experts I think they're doing great harm u than any surf service. So I highly, you know, I'm sorry I have to say this. I mean, there's nothing personal against her, but I'm just saying if you look at their background, who their parents are, who their parents' parents are, who their grandparents are, I mean, it's they are the privileged class of people in China. Of course, they're going to defend their privilege. They're not speaking for the hundreds of millions of Chinese who are struggling in China. So, it's very sad, but the West allowed them to come here. We allowed them to come here. We gave them an education. We probably even gave them a scholarship. Like Xiinping's daughter got a full scholarship from Harvard. Um, we educate them. But do we change their mind? No. instead, you know, their narratives are precisely CCP's narratives, but they learn how to use the western um approach to convince to convince us. So, they talk like a westerner. Uh they appear they appear very westernized. So, what have we done? And and she's not alone. If you look at all these organizations, if you look at, you know, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, uh I mean, all these major media outlets, they employ these Chinese, you know, uh ethnic Chinese. But if you really do research on the background of these Chinese, where their parents come from, where their grand who their their grandparents are, they're not ordinary Chinese. I mean I'm I I shouldn't say not all of them but very very few few of them are ordinary Chinese with no background at all. Otherwise they would not have the chance to come to the US and be well educated or even hold a job in in in in organizations like the New York Times. Almost all of them have ties to the CCP or someone in in in the CCP. So what have we done? They're everywhere in the society now. So that's the harm. And it's very sad. It's very sad, you know, to hear these people because they're very selfish, you know, they're not really speaking for the interest of the Chinese people in general. They're only speaking for their class of people. I'm sorry, but this is my honest opinion. Uh, it's it's not a personal thing, but it's it's generally a problem that I'm concerned with. All right. All right. Nor clause. What does it take to change how Chinese people think or how they're educated at this point? It's an uphill battle. It's so difficult. Um, I would say the probably the better ed the the the better education they received, the worse the problem they have. Um because they're more I I found that the ordinary the the truly ordinary average people from small towns and cities are appear normal have normal thinking like everyone else around the world. But the so-called CCP elite they are the most selfish and ruthless people. Uh and so you ask me how to change them. Yeah, you you have I think you have to remove their privilege. Once they don't have the privilege, they'll learn their lesson. It it it's very difficult because I mean all day long I I see all these um heartbreaking stories taking place in Chinese society and some of the things that are happening um among people is is unthinkable. Yeah, I don't even want to talk about it. Okay, here's a question. What is Yan Honging? has been weighed in in what has been going on? What's his view? Um, here's okay, I have to tell you this this situation in the overseas Chinese dissident communities. There are quite a number of people who are very uh very well connected with China and they're very these people are very good. They give up a lot of things to um to be able to do what they do because they are courageous. They speak up. But what I have found is they all have their own opinion and they're not easily convinced to change their view. Some of them um adamantly believe that Xiinping is still in power while others believe that he's not. Um and they're both the both camp are very strong and some believe that Xiinping will attack Taiwan like im you know the war is imminent and while others believe that there's no way he will not attack Taiwan because he's he's um he's he's a very timid individual. He's he doesn't have the courage to start a war. And I found that over the years, of the four years that that I've been doing this, their view has not changed. And after a while, I realized whatever they say, it's almost like to defend their viewpoint. And to me, that's unnecessary. Like I said 1 billion people missing, but I have no problem if someone said that that's not true. To me, that's actually a better thing because if China has more people, I would rather be wrong um than see China actually having lost so many lives because having more lives is more important than proving that I'm right. So, I have no problem to actually find out to find out that I was wrong that China actually had more people. If somebody tell if one day we find out China does have one billion people, I mean I'll be happy because at least we lost, you know, uh we we lost fewer lives, right? Um so I think to do to do our job well, you cannot be attached to your view one way or the other. If someday I discover that Xiinping is fully in control, I'll tell you that because I'm not attached to my uh to my narratives. Uh because my job is to really tell you to assess the situation and tell you what's really happening. So for me to stubbornly hold on to my view that this is true, that I was right, that I was right from the beginning, I think is counterproductive. I could lose my credibility that way. Um so I found some of these um heavyweight dissidents are a little bit like that. They want to prove their point. Um yeah, but that but that doesn't mean that the things that they share or the tips that they the information that they got from from the inside from from their sources are not credible or not valid. But sometimes when you receive information, it's how you interpret them, right? How you interpret it. So um yeah, so that's what I try to uh view as many people's opinions as possible and then come up with my assessment. And I think the situation in China or in Jonah is changing so fast. The dynamics could swing in one way or the other. Anything is possible. Uh so so I don't want to stick to my version of the story and not change. Uh because if if I do that then I'm not being factual. I'm not being objective. Um, so when you ask me how I feel about uh, Professor Yuan's opinion, he is one of those who adamantly believe that Xiinping uh, is in is in control and will start a war against Taiwan imminently. So that's um, that's his view. Yeah. China uncensored. Another China watcher doesn't seem to think Xiinping's power is compromised. What do you think? Well, I mean it it's normal. Uh but they h but you have to give your justifications. Um like I try to um I try to give you my justifications of why I think what I why I believe what I believe, right? Um but I'm okay with Xiinping still in power. You know, some people they find it to be painful to admit that Xiinping is still in power. And I think that's also wrong because our job is not pass our personal feeling to our viewers. Our job is to tell you exactly what might be happening, right? Even though nobody knows for sure what's happening because it's such a blackbox operation. Um, so as long as they could provide the justifications and the reasoning, I think it's it's it's great. It's great to hear different opinions. I think peop wise people are open to different opinions. Um, so I always find it interesting to to to to watch programs or read articles uh from people who believe that Xiinping is is still in power. I want to see what they say. Uh but so far I think he is he doesn't have he lost control of the military. Uh but he doesn't he still has uh some political power because the whole regime needs him in that place and that gives him political clout. He still has to act. Um so he hasn't lost power entirely. That's that's my view. Okay. All right. So, because if it it's because for anyone to argue that she's power is not affected, then there's just so many um incidents that that's hard to explain. You know, there's no way that XiGP is in full control while losing so many of his lieutenants. How could you explain that? There's no way. Uh either he's crazy or he has lost some power. There's no way you could explain that Xiinping is fully in control and yet just wants to get rid of everyone he promoted. That that doesn't that doesn't jive. Okay. All right. That's my long rant on that. Somebody said, "Do you feel bad for she?" I do feel bad for him. But he he created his the this predictment himself. He when he first came to power, I mean, people respected him. People generally believed that he was going to make some um positive changes for China. Um and his initial anti-corruption campaign was wellreceived because China needed that under Jenzamin. It was it was very corrupt. But then he I mean he was faced with a tough decision whether he wants to whether he wanted to steer China to the right or to the left. Um to the right means he has to embrace some level of political reforms. But he he didn't like the capitalists. He didn't really understand capitalism. See, here's the handicap. He didn't understand what he he didn't know what he didn't know. And no one actually was patient enough uh or kind enough to really kind of a mentor him. Of course, it's difficult to mentor a CCP leader. They're not coachable. But if someone really had the courage and the compassion and the ability and the determination to tell him the right thing to do without, you know, without fearing of losing his life, he might have listened. But no one, but everybody just said, "Okay, well, you're the boss. Do whatever you want." So he never quite under un uh understood capitalism or or the market economy. So he thought that he solved the many um downsides of capital, you know, of the pro the the problem in American society and you know the the quote unquote chaos in a market economy. He didn't understand what what those phenomena really mean. So he went to the left because he only knows how the leftist ideology works. He grew up with it. Um so and people of his generation all had this problem. Yeah. Okay. All right. So that's all that Oh, here's I want to thank I want to here's a question. Marest 666. Do you know why Beijing was called Ping or Bing? And so and so with Guangjo from Canton, but Shanghai remain unchanged. I think the fanatics right um because it's based on ping uh because the ping for Shanghai is the same. Being was um what what's the the fanatic system that they used before the CCP came came over? There was a phonetic system called what do you call that? Guiles. Guys, what what is it called? I I forgot. But there was a a phonetic system that they used to pronounce Chinese words used by the Republic of China, the the the nationalists before the CCP came. And that's how Being Canton um and Canton I think may even be a name given by its Western merchants. But when the CCP came over, they changed names. Um, communists and socialists do not want you to carry on your tradition. So the first thing they do when they take over is change names, right? So they changed all the names of the streets in Shanghai and Beijing. Um, the same thing with the progressive movement in the US. They want to change like from Washington Street to something else. uh they they don't like these um the names that carry carries meaning of a history or has a historical meaning. They want to change history. So they changed the phonetic system and came up with ping. So all the spellings have changed but Shanghai is pronounced exactly the same under the ping you know in the ping with the ping system. So that's why it remains the same. All right. I've talked for quite a while. I hope you'll um take a look at my sequel to the moon video. Uh it's Chris's best work so far. I'm very proud of him. So, take a look. Uh all right, that's all for tonight. Thank you very much and I'll see you this weekend. Bye.