China watchers say it is a political instrument for the purpose, in part, of cementing Xi’s position and deterring interference from the competing Jiang Zemin faction.

In September 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin visited Australia followed by New Zealand for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, and personally gave anti-Falun Gong propaganda to officials he met there. Mr. Jiang lobbied then-U.S.

Viewing Falun Gong’s popularity as a threat, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin began to persecute the spiritual practice in 1999, directing all Party and state forces to eradicate it.

Its subhead is "The two major events Jiang Zemin regrets in his life." The two events in question are the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and the persecution of Falun Gong.

However, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin viewed Falun Gong’s moral teachings and growing popularity as a threat and in 1999, he launched a campaign of persecution to eradicate the practice.

With an estimated 70 million to 100 million people taking up the practice by 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin viewed its immense popularity as a threat to the regime’s authoritarian control over Chinese society.

The campaign, which U.S. intelligence described as being more of a "targeting of political indiscipline and ideological impurity," first targeted loyalists of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Zeng was a close ally of former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin and was instrumental in consolidating Jiang's hold on power. For years, Mr. Zeng was the primary force behind the CCP's organization and personnel. And Mr.

Its adherents in China have been brutally persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to exterminate the movement in 1999.

Wang, a current member of the Politburo Standing Committee, has been a trusted adviser to three successive leaders of the CCP: the late Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping.

In July 1999, the CCP, led by the now-deceased Jiang Zemin, viewed Falun Gong's increasing popularity as a threat to its authority and initiated a severe persecution campaign aimed at eradicating the spiritual discipline.

Considering its popularity as a threat to the communist regime, on July 20, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution of Falun Gong that continues to this day.

Then, in 1999, then-paramount CCP leader Jiang Zemin issued orders to "eradicate" Falun Gong using methods including illegal arrests, propaganda, brainwashing, forced labor, and torture.

In July 1999, then-Communist leader Jiang Zemin initiated a persecution campaign against Falun Gong out of jealousy over its growing popularity.

However, in 1999, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin saw the rising popularity of the practice as a threat to his power and the atheist ideology of the CCP.

The incident draws attention to the power struggle between current CCP leader Xi Jinping and the faction of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

On July 20, 1999, former Communist leader Jiang Zemin, fearing the number of Falun Gong practitioners exceeded that of Chinese Communist Party members, launched a campaign of persecution that has continued for 25 years.

Former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, visited China 14 times, meeting with CCP leaders including Mao Zedong and Jiang Zemin.

However, in 1999, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin perceived its rising popularity as a threat to his authority and the atheist ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiang Zemin Hit by Rare Weather Twice On May 8, 2001, Jiang Zemin, former leader of the CCP, went to Hong Kong to attend the annual meeting of Fortune Global Forum Hong Kong, hosted by Fortune magazine.

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Wang lamented the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China, initiated in July 1999 by the late former communist leader Jiang Zemin.

According to current affairs commentator Li Yanming, the Chinese banking sector has long been controlled by the factions of the late former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong, former vice chairman.

The book “Unbridled Evil: The Corrupt Reign of Jiang Zemin in China,” which The Epoch Times published in Chinese in 2012, also describes the incident.

It was introduced to the public by Li Hongzhi in 1992 and attracted over 70 million followers in China due to its health benefits, before the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution 1999.

By 1999, the then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin perceived Falun Gong's moral teachings and growing popularity as a threat to the CCP's culture of struggle, atheism, and materialism, and he launched a nationwide campaign of persecution to eradicate the practice

Falun Gong practitioners have been facing persecution in China since 1999, the year then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin started a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice.

In January 2001, the CCP staged a self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square under the direction of then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin and blamed it on Falun Gong practitioners.

With the practice's immense popularity, the then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin viewed it as a threat to the regime's authoritarian control over Chinese society. By 1999, the number of Falun Gong practitioners had exceeded that of CCP members.

Feeling threatened by its popularity, China’s ruling Communist Party and its then-leader Jiang Zemin launched a severe repression campaign against Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999.