From Mao Zedong to Jiang Zemin: The CCP Fools People with Lies

(Minghui.org) It is well known that many Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are corrupt. But what people may not have realized is that corruption is an inevitable byproduct of the totalitarian CCP regime. As summarized below, top CCP leaders from Mao Zedong to Jiang Zemin have all been deceiving citizens with lies. The lies were repeated so many times that many people do not even think they are lies, like the folktale of The Emperor’s New Clothes by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

Jiang Zemin: Monetary Bribery and Moral Corruption

With a motto of “keeping quiet while making a fortune,” Jiang led CCP officials in corruption. According to Da Cankao (Great Reference) by overseas dissidents (issue of May 2003, No. 1918), Jiang had a secret account in a Swiss bank of US $350 million. He also owned a mansion in Bali Malaysia, a gift from former Foreign Minister Tang Jiangxuan. It was already worth US $10 million in the 1990s.

According to Open magazine in Hong Kong, the Bank for International Settlements discovered in December 2002 an unclaimed fund of over over $2 billion in capital outflow from China. Liu Jinbao, CEO of the Bank of China (1997 – 2003) was later arrested for bribery and admitted that the fund was from Jiang Zemin. Before the CCP’s 12th National Congress in 2002, Jiang transferred the money overseas in case he needed to leave China.

Numerous sources estimated that Jiang’s family, including his son and grandson, may have a fortune of US $1 trillion.

Ruling with Corruption

After rising to the top position of the CCP from the bloodshed of Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Jiang had no credibility in the eyes of both senior officials and ordinary citizens. To earn their loyalty, he allowed officials to amass wealth by taking bribes and/or using their power as leverage in business dealings. He also led them in indulging in a promiscuous lifestyle.

Under his leadership, many lower-level officials bribed higher-ups in order to get promotions or other career advancements. After Xia Deliang, Nan’an District Party Secretary in Chongqing, was arrested in March 2012, he admitted giving 30 million yuan to Gu Kailai (Bo Xilai’s wife) to become a deputy mayor. After Bo was taken down in March 2012, investigators found that he and his wife had received about one billion yuan for promoting officials. Asahi Shimbun reported that the couple was found to have transferred US $6 billion overseas in illegal assets.

Moral Decay

In addition to amassing wealth illegally, Jiang and his followers also targeted Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation system based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. As a result, an untold number of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained, imprisoned, and tortured. When officials were rewarded for persecuting innocent practitioners with brutality and lies, society as a whole faced a dire consequence.

Like Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, former Party Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC), was also a key perpetrator who followed Jiang’s persecution policy against Falun Gong. Zhou was reported to have control over the oil industry. After former Vice-Minister of Public Security Zheng Shaodong was arrested, he said Zhou and his son, Zhou Bin, had also made a big fortune.

Zhou Bin was reported to have assets of 20 billion yuan, most of which was obtained through Bo Xilai. Bo once gave Zhou Bin a project worth 40 billion yuan and the latter pocketed nearly 10 billion yuan from it.

Mao Zedong: Astronomical Publishing Royalties

According to Zhengming magazine in Hong Kong, the Standing Committee of the CCP’s Central Politburo published an announcement in July 2002, claiming that Mao Zedong’s publishing royalties of 142.51 million yuan would be inherited by his offspring.

Netizens questioned that the royalties were obtained illegally. In fact, the Ministry of Culture published a notice, “Report on Abolishing the Royalty System and Thoroughly Reforming the Author Remuneration System” in October 1960 to void the royalty system. All writers would be instead paid a salary. Since Mao had a salary (the highest one among government employees), it was illegal for him to collect royalties.

Moreover, Mao’s writings were considered policies in communist China, and most families would own some copies as required. It is ironic that poor peasants and workers in China had to squeeze some of their limited income to purchase Mao’s writings. Not only that, the Chinese people were not aware of Mao’s royality earnings, and instead believed he lived a “modest” lifestyle as depicted by the CCP propaganda.

Absurdity of Great Leap Forward

One example of the CCP’s maniac culture was the Great Leap Forward in 1958. As people competed for being the most politically correct, crop production was exaggerated further and further. When Mao visited Xinli Village in Tianjin, he was told the harvested grain was 60,000 kilograms per mu (0.16 acre). When Liu Shaoqi visited Xushui County, locals said the harvest was 600,000 kilograms per mu. Both Mao and Liu laughed and praised the peasants for their “accomplishments.”

Many CCP leaders grew up in farmers’ families, including Mao and Liu, who would know that the actual output was less than 100 kilograms per mu at the time. But when the crop yields were exaggerated to an insane level, they did not question it, nor did local officials, who knew all these numbers were fabricated. But after the peasants turned in grains to the country and had nothing left for themselves (as the government’s cut of the crops was based on the fake numbers), the following famine took tens of millions of lives between 1959 and 1962.

There are many other examples. In the Anti-Rightist Campaign between 1957 and 1959, the CCP first approached intellectuals with a “sincere” attitude, seeking criticism of the CCP. After some intellectuals fell into the trap and offered constructive criticism, however, the CCP used the feedback as evidence against them. Dubbed the trap yang mou (open conspiracy), Mao successfully framed hundreds of thousands to millions of intellectuals. The suppression was so harsh that many people subsequently dared not express their own thoughts.

When “Servants” are in Power

From Karl Marx to the CCP, communist leaders always claim that ordinary citizens are the real masters of the country, while officials are only “servants.” Although such propaganda helped the CCP to gain trust and seize power, within just a few years after it took power in 1949, ordinary citizens found that the land seized from landlords by the CCP and “given” to them was seized by the CCP again. In addition, they have been controlled and bullied by the so-called “servants” with no human rights.

Class Gap

Other than China, few countries have the household registration system that makes it difficult for rural residents to migrate to urban areas. In China, the household registration system is designed such that the rural population serves as support for the urban population, which is given more preferential treatment. This “caste-like” system is a tactic intended to make the urban population thankful for the privilege given by the CCP, which deemed the urban population more likely to disrupt social stability.

Although Marx’s communism theory claimed to wipe out inequality, once in power the CCP created different social classes as mentioned above to control people with constant pressure and reliance on the Party.

With the economic reform in the late 70s and early 80s, farmers could farm their own contracted land with motivation, and their lives were better off. Privatization of businesses and inflow of foreign investment enabled many people to get rich. The “superiority of [communism] public ownership” thus turned out to be a lie. And even government employees quit their jobs and went to do business for a better life.

But this was seen as a threat to the totalitarian CCP regime including Jiang, all of whom had to be the richest and have the most power. The CCP sold or restructured some state-owned enterprises while controlling some key industries with monopoly power such as oil, electricity, water, land, gas, transportation, and telecommunications. At the same time, the medical industry and education were also industrialized with CCP officials directly or indirectly in control. This way, the CCP could exert control over almost everything, including housing prices. While homeowners owed huge mortgages and people struggled to make ends meet, government officials enjoy unparalleled privileges and benefits with high salaries, good healthcare, and handsome gray income. As a large number of officials became corrupt, they also suppressed faith systems such as Falun Gong, led promiscuous lives, owned mistresses, and sexually violated women including young girls.

Taken together, the CCP suppressed citizens with brutality and deceived them with lies. The CCP officials amassed fortunes through bribery, destroyed moral values, abused women including girls, and even killed Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. The CCP is harmful to China and the world, and we need a society without communism.