Xi Jinping Demands Loyalty From Top Chinese Officials as Rumors Spread About Alleged High-Ranking Defector
Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently led all high-ranking officials in Beijing to retake the loyalty oath and pledge their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The move comes amid rumors circulating on overseas Chinese media and some U.S. outlets about top Chinese security official Dong Jingwei who allegedly defected earlier this year and fled to […]
Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently led all high-ranking officials in Beijing to retake the loyalty oath and pledge their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The move comes amid rumors circulating on overseas Chinese media and some U.S. outlets about top Chinese security official Dong Jingwei who allegedly defected earlier this year and fled to the United States with his daughter. All 25 members of the Politburo—the top decision-making body of the CCP—and other top officials such as chairs of the secretariat, state councilors, the president of the supreme court, the chief prosecutor, and senior members of the rubber-stamp legislature (the National People's Congress) and the Central Military Commission, retook the Communist Party oath at the History’s Exhibition Hall in Beijing on June 18. The pledge included the statement: “Be ready at all times to sacrifice my all for the Party ... never betray the Party.” Before taking the oath, ...
