Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1440-W1040

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1440-W1040

Release Date: December 23, 2021

发布日：2021年12月23日

Topic: 2021 Review -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：2021年终回顾 -- 魏京生

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2021 Review

-- Wei Jingsheng

At the end of each year, we must review and summarize the good and bad things of the year in order to make plans for the future. Countries and people who are not good at looking back are often not good at looking forward, or have no future.

From the point of view that ordinary people like gossip, the media is mostly kitsch. So, sexual scandals in show business, wealth disputes among rich people, etc., have become the mainstream in the media. The common people are very busy all day long and need a little sensory stimulation. Gossip news came into being to meet this need of readers and audiences.

However, when the common people are unaware, conspirators will also take advantage of the time people are enjoying this gossip with a lack of vigilance to sell their private goods to achieve ulterior goals. Everyone knows this simple phenomenon: when you inadvertently lose your vigilance, it is an opportunity for scammers to start. So, many of the sexual scandals that everyone has seen recently are indeed hidden with conspiracies and deceptions.

For example, the scandal between Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli seemed to meet the common people’s curiosity inherited from the era of monkeys and apes. From the perspective of the politics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it is full of conspiracies and power struggles. From the perspective of Western political circles, this is yet another example of the hypocrisy and scandal of the CCP. In the eyes of anti-Communist Chinese, the intensification of the CCP’s internal fighting indicates that the time for its collapse may not be far away, and it is time to prepare for the issue of how to establish a democratic society.

So for some people who are not as prominent as Zhang Gaoli, is it just pure gossip news? It seems not so simple. After punishing large enterprises in China, it is time for the CCP government to harvest from the medium and small businesses; after finishing small and medium businesses, it is time to strike those high-end entertainment circles in China. The entertainment industry is best to rectify yet not easy to rectify, mainly because their popularity is very high, and there are many Chinese who love them. This feature is very similar to the Chinese dissident opposition. By rectify these people, the CCP will offend a large number of Chinese who like or sympathize with them, so it needs to find an effective reason to start.

Thus yet another scandal came out. For ordinary people who have a lasting curiosity about scandals, then exposing or creating their scandals will be an effective trick against these targeted. The more ugly, the more effective they are. Anyway, the people don't have the interest and opportunity to distinguish these. This kind of rumor or disclosure of privacy is often right on the target. The common people, in addition to their own family affairs and professionalism, must be ignorant, which means they are very easy to deceive. This is the trick that allows scammers often to be successful.

Therefore, the endless sexual scandals this year are a warning to the common Chinese: don't think that you are the smartest in the world, and anyone has a chance to be deceived. So it is best to distinguish clearly before speaking, or to believe that someone is smarter than you and thus can help you distinguish between true and false. For example, a good legal court is one of the places to help fools avoid being deceived. Confident and stupid people often die miserably and even cause others to be deceived.

What is most important to China and the lives of ordinary Chinese this year? Even Xi Jinping has to admit that China's economy is going downward. Of course, he does not admit that it was caused by his perverse behavior. Of course, he continues to be the core of the wisest thinker to the degree one would never see such a wise thinker in a century. Bad things and responsibilities will always be someone else's faults, so he only needs to find some scapegoats.

It was said that as Zhang Gaoli could not be planted, Xi Jinping arrested General Liu Yazhou recently. The charge has not been made public. One said it was for traditional corruption claims, while someone else said it was due to a conspiracy to engage in a coup, and so on. In short, no matter how people guess, this is the result of the CCP's internal fighting and finding scapegoats. Even though General Liu believes in Christianity and loves the United States, he has also planned and released an anti-American patriotism propaganda film, so he can't be publicly identified as being traitorous to the enemy, right?

This example illustrates an issue: in front of a very suspicious Xi Jinping who resembles Mao Zedong in this regard, no matter how good you pretend, no matter how actively you show your loyalty, even if you have some kind of highest-level interpersonal relationship, you can’t avoid the possibility of suspicion that may happen at any time. Aren’t the leaders from the Jiang Zemin faction in trouble even though it is where Xi Jinping came from? Isn't Zeng Qinghong, who had fully promoted Xi to his current position, also made into trouble as well? Wang Qishan, who helped Xi Jinping to clean up and smooth out the political arena, is more fortunate to be forced aside with a state-level retirement.

The only people left with Xi are Zhang Youxia who has a relationship with him over two generations and helps Xi to control the military, and Liu He who helps Xi to control the Chinese economy. With such a small group, Xi wants to be emperor. This is very ridiculous. But who knows. After decades of reversed selection and repeated eliminations within, there left no brave and strong men within the CCP anymore. So it is still possible for Xi Jinping to be the last emperor.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-12232021104304.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2021/WeiJS211222on2021.mp3

(Written and recorded on December 22, 2021. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on December 23, 2021.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1440-W1040

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1440-W1040

Release Date: December 23, 2021

发布日：2021年12月23日

Topic: 2021 Review -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：2021年终回顾 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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2021年终回顾

-- 魏京生

每到年底都要回顾总结一下这一年的好事坏事，以便为今后做打算。不善于回头看的国家和人，往往也不善于向前看，或者说没什么前途。

从老百姓喜欢八卦的角度看，媒体大多是媚俗的。所以什么演艺界的绯闻啦，富翁们的财产纠纷啦等等，就成为媒体上的主流。老百姓一天到晚忙得不亦乐乎。需要点感官刺激，八卦新闻也就应运而生，满足读者观众的需要。

但是在老百姓无所察觉的时候，阴谋家们也会利用人们正在享受，缺乏警觉的时机，兜售他们的私货，达到不可告人的目的。大家都知道一个简单的现象：在你不经意间丧失警惕的时候，就是骗子们下手的机会来了。所以最近大家看到的不少绯闻，的确暗藏着阴谋和欺骗。

例如彭帅和张高丽的绯闻，在老百姓看来就是满足了从猴子猿人时代继承下来的好奇心。从共产党政界看来，就充满了阴谋和权力斗争。从西方政界看来，这是又爆出了共产党的虚伪和丑闻。在反共的华人看来，共产党内斗的加剧，预示着垮台的时间可能不远了，该准备如何建立民主社会的问题了。

那么一些不如张高丽显赫的人物，就是纯粹的八卦新闻吗？好像不那么单纯。整完大企业就该整韭菜了；整完中小韭菜，就该整那些高级韭菜娱乐圈了。娱乐圈最好整治也不好整治，主要就是他们的人气很高，爱他们的人很多，这个特点和异议人士反对派很相似。整他们就会得罪大量喜欢或者同情他们的人，要找一个有效的下手理由。

又是绯闻。老百姓对绯闻有持久的好奇心，那就揭露或者制造他们的绯闻，越丑恶的越有效，反正老百姓没有辨别的兴趣和机会。这种谣言或者揭发隐私往往百发百中，老百姓嘛，除了自己的家事和专业之外，必然是愚昧的，也就是说很好骗。这就是骗子们往往得手的诀窍。

因此这一年的绯闻层出，就是对老百姓的一个警告：别以为你天下最聪明，任何人都有受骗上当的机会。最好辩别清楚再说话，或者相信有人比你聪明，可以帮你辨别真假。例如好的法院就是帮助愚民们避免受骗的地方之一。自信而又愚蠢的人，往往死得最惨，还要害别人连带受骗。

对国家和老百姓的生活来说，这一年来有什么最重要呢？就是习近平也不得不承认中国经济全面下滑。他当然不承认是他的倒行逆施造成的，他当然继续成为最英明的思想家核心而且是百年不遇。坏事和责任永远是别人的，只要找一些替罪羊就妥了。

据说栽赃张高丽不成，最近抓了刘亚洲将军。罪名还没有公开。一说是传统的贪赃枉法，也有说是阴谋搞政变，等等，不一而足。总之不管人们怎么猜测，这都是中共内斗，找替罪羊的结果。即使刘将军信仰基督教，热爱美国，但也策划了反美爱国主义的宣传片，不能公开认定投敌卖国吧。

这个例子说明了一个问题：在疑心病很重的、类似老毛的小习面前，你就是伪装得再好，效忠得再积极，甚至有某种最高层的人际关系，也不能避免随时可能发生的疑心病。小习出身的江派大佬们不是正在挨整吗？全力推举小习上位的曾庆红不是也正在挨整吗？帮助小习整人，扫平政坛的王岐山，还好有个正国级待遇的闲差。

剩下的只有两代人关系的张又侠，帮小习掌握军队；刘鹤帮他掌握经济。这样的小集团就想当皇帝，太扯了吧。也没准儿。几十年的逆淘汰，可能党内确实更无一人是男儿了。小习当个末代皇帝还是有可能的。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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