There he was received and welcomed by then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and then-Premier Li Peng. “The special bromance between Chinese and Australian leaders was back on track.

In 1999, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Gong, following in a long history of persecution by the regime of orthodox religions and beliefs in China.

Since July 20, 1999—the day former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin issued a ban on Falun Dafa—millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in jails and detention facilities across the country, where they are subjected to torture and forced organ

During Hu Jintao's 10 years as head of the CCP, the cronies of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, were everywhere within the party, and Jiang retained the position of military leader for two more years.

Zemin—that opposes Xi’s leadership.

When Xi first came to power, he was facing pressure from various high-level factions from the Jiang Zemin era.

Zemin, and cronies of Jiang's such as Ling Jihua, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, and Bo Xilai.

This approach diverges from the "reform and opening up" policy—initially introduced by the second CCP leader, Deng Xiaoping, and subsequently advanced under the leadership of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao—which emphasizes international trade and engagement

However, then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin perceived the practice's popularity as a threat to the regime's totalitarian control. In July 1999, he initiated a nationwide mass arrest and persecution campaign with the aim of eradicating the practice.

Originating in mainland China in 1992, Falun Gong attracted some 70 million to 100 million practitioners, including Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and cadres, before former Chinese regime leader Jiang Zemin turned the party and state apparatus

Zemin (who stepped down in 2002 and died in 2022), was even more staggeringly high.

Alvin Jiang, 35, is the only child of Jiang Mianheng and the oldest grandchild of Jiang Zemin.

Former CCP Chairman Jiang Zemin, who died last November, launched a nationwide persecution against Falun Gong in July 1999, which is still ongoing in today’s China.

The persecution campaign began in 1999 under then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, who saw the practice’s growing popularity and spiritual tenets as being at odds with the Party’s atheist stance.

Zemin faction, which is still deeply entrenched in the Chinese market sector as its members were the early birds to Deng Xiaoping’s 1980s “reform” bonanza.

To show their support for the global lawsuits filed against China's former leader Jiang Zemin, Falun Gong practitioners march in Sydney on Sept. 4, 2015.

But three months later, the CCP, led by then-General Secretary Jiang Zemin, initiated what has become one of the longest-running persecutions against a faith group in China. Perry described this move as the act of "malfeasant cowards.”

The police, the state security, and the legal and judiciary system have been under the control of Xi's major rival Jiang Zemin faction and are the major targets of Xi's purging.

Daring Effort to Tap Into State TV Network “Eternal Spring” documents the memories of Daxiong, a Falun Gong adherent who fled China after police began cracking down on members of the spiritual group on the orders of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin,

Jiang Zemin, former leader of the CCP, initiated the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999. Despite his death in November 2022, the campaign has continued to this day, and numerous victims have lost their lives while in detention.

But Jiang Zemin, the CCP's former party leader, perceived that popularity as a threat to the regime's totalitarian rule and subsequently instigated a massive persecution campaign.

Falun Gong's widely reported health benefits attracted between 70 million to 100 million practitioners in China in the 1990s—a number deemed by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin as a threat to his party's authoritarian rule.

Under the leadership of then-Party Chief Jiang Zemin, the communist regime went ahead to launch an unprecedented nationwide persecution campaign to eradicate the peaceful meditation system in July 1999.

Until last year, the mouthpiece media made a statement on each previous handover anniversary mentioning former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Hong Kong’s first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, who have long been called “historical participants” in the transfer

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), under then-leader Jiang Zemin, launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, after the practice received a following of around 100 million practitioners.

However, the former leader of China’s communist regime, Jiang Zemin, initiated a campaign of persecution against Falun Gong in 1999.

(Allen Zhang/The Epoch Times) Falun Gong adherents have been subjected to a decades-long persecution campaign, launched by Jiang Zemin, the late former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The ongoing persecution of Falun Gong was launched by former CCP chief Jiang Zemin in 1999 after the authorities estimated that there were around 70 million to 100 million adherents.

Then-Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin deemed the meditation practice—which had 70 million to 100 million adherents by 1999—a threat to the Party’s authority.

Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and others launched a political campaign to persecute Falun Gong in 1999 and staged the "Tiananmen Square Self-immolation" case to slander Falun Gong.