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On July 17, 2015, Hong Kong Oriental Daily (http://hk.on.cc/hk/) published an article on the military leadership personnel changes in China titled, “Three Phenomenon at the Center of Army Restructuring.” China Gate and some other overseas Chinese websites republished the article on July 18, 2015, with a different title, “Xi Jinping’s Big Move: Jiang Zemin’s Closest Army Allies Are No longer in Power.”

According to the article, Xi has assigned some senior military generals to insignificant positions. Over the last six months, those in the most important leadership positions in the armed forces have all been replaced. Those officials who were close to Xi were promoted.

Source: Oriental Daily, July 17, 2015
http://hk.on.cc/cn/bkn/cnt/commentary/20150717/bkncn-20150717000313936-0717_05411_001.html
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/07/18/4422945.html

Qiushi Theory published an article on the “negative Internet culture.” The article described this as “negative cultural contents and phenomenon that bring damage to or have a negative impact on China’s mainstream ideology.” It stated that China must be on guard against it and take action to promote positive culture online.

According to the article, the impact of negative culture includes the “weakened feeling that Internet users have towards the Party as well as in their support of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.” The article stated that it was caused by the negative social trend and value system which is gaining the discourse right on the Internet. Meanwhile “the U.S. has been leading the Western countries to use their dominance in Internet technology to cause China’s ideology system to be permeated with Neoliberalism.” The article also listed a number of negative moral crises which include Internet contents that are full of violence, pornography, gambling, drugs, and cheating; as well as psychological and mental illnesses affecting those who are addicted to the Internet.

The article made a number of recommendations to minimize the impact of the negative Internet culture. In addition to establishing legal guidelines, the article suggested that the completion of the real-name registration system for all Internet users would help. It also suggested that an award system could be used for people who gave tips about the information. Lastly it suggested that, in order to stop relying on the Internet technology that the Western countries provide, with the U.S. as leader, there is a need to develop technology teams with the skills that are able to eliminate and prevent the spread of negative online culture contents.

Source: Qiushi Theory, July 18, 2015
http://www.qstheory.cn/zhuanqu/zywz/2015-07/18/c_1115966275.htm

China Review News republished an article that People’s Daily had originally published. It criticized the current tendency of “Guanxi” or interpersonal relationships between leaders and their subordinates, calling them "twisted relationships.” The article said that such relationships are heavily “contaminated” with various kinds of “implicit rules” and “personal favoritism.” It listed examples of different types of these relationships and stated that all Party members should work on themselves to improve their interpersonal relationships and make them more normal, pure, and less complicated. 

On July 13, 2015, People’s Liberation Army Daily published a full page article on how the Chinese puppet army collaborated with Japan during China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion. The article stated that, during World War II, China was the only country where the number of puppet army soldiers exceeded the number of invaders. 

On July 2-3, 2015, several overseas Chinese websites republished an article from Cheng Ming Monthly magazine in Hong Kong (the original article is not available online) on the possible collapse of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

According to the article, the Party is so corrupt that it is on the verge of disintegration. Even top Party leaders do not avoid the topic of the "death of the Party." 

In the middle of June 2015, the CCP Politburo Standing Committee held a two-day expanded meeting, discussing major political, economic, and other crises that the Party is facing. In addition to the Politburo Standing Committee members, Secretaries of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee, the State Councilors, Party Committee members of the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference, Central Military Commission members, and Deputy Secretaries of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Xi Jinping said in his speech, "We must have the courage to face, acknowledge, and accept the harsh reality that the Party has become so corrupt and degenerated so much that it could cause the crisis of the Party’s downfall." 

An investigative research report on the Party’s development and on Party cadres was distributed at the meeting. The report listed six crises, in the areas of politics, the economy, society, faith, and the future, that could lead to the Party’ death. The investigation showed that only 25 percent of senior officials in the CCP Central Committees and local governments have passed the CCDI’s review; 90 percent of Party committees at grass-roots levels or county levels have failed their performance review and need to be "reorganized."

Source: China Gate, July 2, 2015
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/07/02/4387525.html 
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2015/07/201507031039.shtml#.VZ08O2dmK3M
http://www.iask.ca/news/china/2015/07/337621.html

On July 4, 2015, China Gate, a Chinese website headquartered in the U.S., republished an article from Cheng Ming Monthly magazine in Hong Kong (original article is not available online) on the internal fight between factions within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The article stated that former CCP top leader Jiang Zemin and his right-hand Zeng Qinghong have become the next biggest targets of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, following the downfall of Zhou Yongkang, which broke the unspoken rule that there would be "no legal punishment of any Politburo Standing Committee member."

In order to save himself from being investigated, Zeng Qinghong tried to set up other CCP senior leaders as anti-corruption targets. This included the families of Li Peng and Chen Yun, both of whom were powerful political figures in the past. Zeng hoped that these families would be too big for Xi Jinping to take on and this would stop Xi’s anti-corruption campaign.

However, Zeng’s strategy didn’t work. Chen Yun’s family used to be close to Jiang Zemin, but this time, the family chose to side with Xi Jinping. Chen Yun’s son Chen Yuan supported Xi’s corruption investigation against two Vice Chairmen of the National People’s Congress. Chen Yun’s daughter Chen Weili made a high-profile statement, "We all support Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign."

Source: China Gate, July 4, 2015
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/07/04/4392092.html

China’s state media Xinhua published an exclusive report to “disclose” information about the recent Turkish demonstrations against the Chinese government. In asking what caused the demonstrations, the report quoted unnamed analysts who “point out that a few Western media have long been distorting China’s ethnic policy and the living status of those in ethnic minority areas. A small group of agitators and their reporting of rumors that [China] banned the ‘Ramadan fast’ in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region have brought about the recent anti-China protests in Turkey.”