This all happened during the reign of … Jiang Zemin who had absolute authority," Passang told The Epoch Times over text message.

Then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin perceived the practice as a threat to the Party's ideological control and launched an aggressive campaign to suppress the practitioners.

Was the Caixin story intended to send a message to the Jiang Zemin faction (the “Shanghai clique” in China)?

Perceiving the popularity of the practice as a threat to its rule, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a violent persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China in July 1999.

Xi has basically subdued the Jiang Zemin-Zeng Qinghong faction and eradicated the Youth League faction.

In 1999, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the time, Jiang Zemin, launched a brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners using the weight of the entire state apparatus.

Despite the improved health and morality Chinese people found in Falun Gong, CCP hardliners, such as then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, saw it as a resurgence of traditional culture that needed to be crushed by a Cultural Revolution-like campaign.

Lee visited China 33 times and privately briefed Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Hu Jintao, and others. Multiple generations of Chinese leaders treated him almost as a mentor.

Zemin and former security chief Zhou Yongkang.

Its enormous popularity, however, was perceived as a threat by then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who had long feared that the Party had lost its dominance over daily life in China.

Retired members of the Jiang faction, also known as the Shanghai clique, who are allies of the now-deceased former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, may oppose Li relentlessly because, in his previous role as Shanghai mayor, he undermined their influence in Shanghai

Chen noted this is abnormal and suspicious in contrast to the funerals of Jiang Zemin and Li Peng, where CCTV cameras were positioned before their family members, capturing Mr.

“That mass killing would not have occurred without the decision of the CCP in 1999 to repress the practice of  Falun Gong, a decision which Jiang Zemin sparked and led.”

Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin considered the practice a threat and launched the official persecution in July 1999, which has resulted in arbitrary imprisonments, sentencing, torture, and forced organ harvesting.

After having initially promoted Falun Gong for its benefits to health and morals, the CCP turned on it in 1999, starting a nationwide persecution against the spiritual practice, under the personal directive of then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

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.

Wang Youqun, a Chinese affairs analyst, indicated that former leader Jiang Zemin and his crony Zeng Qinghong are the backstage chiefs of the massive corrupt officials and cadres. But, neither Jiang or Zeng has been investigated.

This popularity was perceived by Jiang to be a threat to his authoritarian rule. Jiang Zemin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 8, 2012.

Huang noted that when former CCP leader Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution campaign against Falun Gong, practitioners were branded as “class enemies,” making them prime targets for forced organ harvesting.

Even more, the death of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin on Nov. 30, 2022, meant that the “Jiang Zemin faction” was now possibly even more amorphous than when Mr. Jiang was alive as a symbol of rejection of “Xi thought.”

However, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin overrode Zhu’s conciliatory stance toward Falun Gong and decided to characterize the appeal as a criminal threat, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.

Jiang Zemin leaves behind a legacy of brutal killing and torture of millions of Chinese citizens. No more TikTok for South Dakota state employees. The governor issued an executive ban of the Chinese app on South Dakota state-owned devices.

Wang Xing, a former engineer from a state-owned enterprise in mainland China, said that death is the easy way out for Jiang, as "the best ending should be bringing Jiang Zemin to justice," he said.

Alarmed by its widespread popularity and independence from the communist regime’s control, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution of the practice in 1999.

Deeming the surging popularity a threat to the Party's control, then-CCP leader, Jiang Zemin, initiated the persecution of Falun Gong, which continues today.

But in 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin turned the state apparatus against the group, launching an eradication campaign that has lasted for 25 years.

Yaita also pointed out that the Chinese regime under former CCP leader Jiang Zemin also handed over land to Russia in the 1990s. "What Xi Jinping wants to oppose is the free democratic camp headed by the United States.

The persecution of Falun Gong was initiated in July 1999 by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who perceived the widespread popularity of Falun Gong and its spiritual and moral teachings as a threat to the regime's atheist ideology.

Zhu, the situation for Falun Gong would begin to deteriorate (at the behest of CCP leader Jiang Zemin), gradually escalating into the official start of the persecution on July 20, 1999.

Song—in a legal complaint filed in 2015 with the CCP’s highest prosecuting body, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, against former CCP leader Jiang Zemin for crimes committed in persecuting Falun Gong—said that she lost her right foot after three months