Then, on July 20, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered a violent persecution of Falun Gong, resulting in mass illegal detention of practitioners overnight. As recounted in "Killed to Order," Chinese organ transplants subsequently exploded.

The faction with bloody hands—the officials former CCP head Jiang Zemin promoted in order to carry out the persecution—is seeking to avoid accountability for their crimes and to continue the campaign.

Former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin pictured in the Great Hall of the People on Oct. 21, 2007.

Former CCP head Jiang Zemin and the current security czar Zhou Yongkang had the deepest involvement with Bo in carrying out these crimes.

Jiang Zemin changed his mind, however, when he saw that Bo actively followed him. Jiang started to rely on Bo and promoted Bo step by step while making him rich.

Jiang Zemin was paramount leader of China from 1989-2002, and this gave him the ability to abuse his political power and embezzle government resources. 

For example, Xi arrested Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong—former vice chairmen of the CMC—in 2014 and 2015, respectively, to subdue the military influence of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin.

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered the elimination of Falun Gong, instructing the newly formed, Gestapo-like 610 Office to "ruin" the practitioners physically, financially, and socially.

News Analysis Jiang Zemin in 2007. (Fredric J.

What began as a project to extend the lifespans of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elites took a sinister turn after then-dictator Jiang Zemin ordered the "eradication" of a peaceful spiritual discipline practiced by one in 13 Chinese people.

It's only when you get to Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping that relations with Japan deteriorate.

Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin mobilized the whole state apparatus, including state-run media at home as well as foreign media, in an attempt to “eradicate” Falun Gong within three months.

Fearing that its popularity would jeopardize the Chinese regime’s authoritarian rule, in July 1999, then-regime leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution campaign.

The submission included evidence of their crimes, with Jiang Zemin among those named on the list, the organization said on its website.

In July 1999, then-CCP head Jiang Zemin viewed Falun Gong’s moral teachings and growing popularity as a threat to the rule of the CCP. At the time, there were an estimated 70 million to 100 million followers of Falun Gong in China.

Fearing that its popularity would jeopardize the Chinese regime’s authoritarian rule, in July 1999, then-regime leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution campaign.

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., founded by Jiang Zemin during his tenure, is a major site of interest for the Jiang family and the Shanghai gang. Jiang Mianheng was listed as a director of the company in an internal document dated March 2007.

In 1998, Shi was appointed to the National People’s Congress, a Party-controlled rubber-stamp legislature, by then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin—a role he held for 20 years.

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a persecution against the group, calling on the CCP apparatus to “defame them in reputation, destroy them economically, and eliminate them physically.” The persecution continues today.

Jiang Zemin, Chinese paramount leader and head of the CCP during Falun Gong's meteoric rise, saw the practice as an existential threat.

Xi faced various hurdles from the corruption-riddled bloc led by the late former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Xi’s predecessors—Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu—took the "prizes" of absolute power and growth but left behind the systemic flaws of inequality, unspeakable acts, declining demographics, and an unreformable structure.

Jiang Zemin in 2007. (Fredric J.

The Hong Kong broadcaster ATV News repeatedly reported the news that Jiang Zemin was dead on Wednesday evening, July 6.

Fearing that its popularity would jeopardize the Chinese regime’s authoritarian rule, in July 1999, then-regime leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution campaign.

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He helped Deng's successor Jiang Zemin cover up Jiang's family background, and paved Jiang's path to the top. In return, Jiang helped Bo Yibo's son, Bo Xilai, all the way from his position as a county official to becoming a central leader.

Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin felt threatened by the number of Falun Gong practitioners in China, then estimated to be in the tens of millions, which outnumbered the Party's own membership.

Su noted that corruption within the PLA has deep roots, dating back to policies in the 1990s under former CCP leader Jiang Zemin that allowed military units to operate businesses.