XI JINPING THREATENS WORLD, FORMER PARTY LEADER CLAIMS

Cai Xia, 67, a former top professor at the Chinese Communist Party's top training center and think tank, has condemned Chinese President Xi Jinping for being a dictator and warned the entire world that Xi wants to dominate not only neighboring countries by snatching the entire South China Sea but also by trying to to control the world economy.

In an interview with CNN from the United States on August 23, Cai appealed to the international community to join hands in stopping the Communist Party from "infiltrating" global institutions and spreading Xi's "totalitarian" ideals. Cai was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for her criticisms of Xi, wbo brooks no dissent from anyone, unlike former President Hu Jintao, and who consolidated his position and authority over the CPC, which ranks among the world's largest political organizations with 90 million members.

The announcement of Cai’s expulsion offered scant details, but Cai said the school's internal statement listed three things that led to her removal: a short essay she wrote in May that decried Beijing's national security law on Hong Kong as "brutalizing the Hong Kong people," a leaked audio recording in which she labeled the Party a "political zombie" and referred to Xi as acting like a "mafia boss," and an online petition she signed in February calling for freedom of speech following the death of Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who was reprimanded by police for attempting to raise the alarm about the country's coronavirus outbreak. Li later died after catching the virus.

"What he emphasized was the concentration of power and the absolute conformity and loyalty to the Party's central leadership," she said. "He does not allow dissenting voices from within the Party, punishing those who air a different opinion with Party discipline and corruption charges." Last month, the Party expelled Ren Zhiqiang, an influential real estate tycoon and longtime Party member, for "serious violation" of Party discipline and law, after he penned an essay criticizing Xi's response to the coronavirus epidemic. Cai had previously voiced support for Ren when the outspoken tycoon was silenced from Chinese social media in 2016 after he questioned Xi's order that all state-run media must stay loyal to the Party in comments online. This time, she penned an essay in his defense, calling Ren the latest victim of Xi's "ruthless crackdown" on dissent within the Party.