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On November 13, Spain’s court indicted five high-ranking CCP officials for crimes of torture and genocide against Falun Gong practitioners. According to AOL UK, the five officials are Jiang Zemin, former head of the Communist Party, who ordered the campaign to “eradicate” the Falun Gong meditation practice in 1999; Luo Gan, head of the notorious “610 Office,” a nationwide secret police task force; Bo Xilai, current Chongqing party secretary; Jia Qinglin and Wu Guanzheng, both members of the Politburo Standing Committee.

The defendants have 4 to 6 weeks to reply and could face extradition if traveling to a country that has extradition treaties with Spain, including China and the US. If convicted, each could face up to a 20-year prison term.

Source: AOL UK,
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/jiang-zemin-indicted-in-spain-for-genocide-and-torture-of-falun-gong-practitioners/2110796267

Additional Source: The Epoch Times, November 19, 2009
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/11/19/n2727513.htm

Members of the “League Faction” (Ed: Hu Jintao’s supporters and allies) will serve as provincial heads in several provinces or autonomous regions (ARs), as current heads are close to retirement.

Takunpao republished Mingpao’s latest version concerning political realignment, which may be launched in early December:

– Liu Qi, Party Secretary of Beijing and Wang Lequan, Party Secretary of Xinjiang AR will remain in their posts
– Hu Chunhua, Governor of Hebei will assume the Inner Mongolia AR provincial head position
– Sun Zhengcai, Minister of Agriculture will be provincial head in Jilin
– Wang Min, current Jilin Party Secretary will take the Liaoning provincial head position
– Lu Zhangong, Party Secretary of Fujian will accept the Henan provincial head position.

Both Hu and Sun are 46. They are expected to be rise to the central leadership in Zhongnanhai at the 19th Central Committee in 2017.

Source: Takunpao, November 25, 2009
http://henan.takungpao.com/news/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=40539

The latest issue of Outlook Weekly magazine, owned by Xinhua, published an article titled “Hu Jintao’s Epochal Views.” Although the full text of the article, already in the print version of the magazine, is not seen on the web, major state media have widely reported this article. 

In order to monitor “top leaders,” on November 25, 2009, the Shenzhen City CCP Committee and Municipal Government promulgated “The Provisional Regulations on Supervision of the CCP and Government Chiefs,” which forbids “Naked Officials,” those whose spouses and children have moved out of China, from holding chief positions within the Party and the government or acting as members of important departments’ leadership teams.

[Ed: The problem of “naked officials” is known to have existed in China for many years. “Naked officials” abuse their power to get money illegally and then transfer it to their family members overseas. If they are investigated, they can easily manage to escape from China, since they are just by themselves.]

Source: Xinhua, November 25, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-11/25/content_12539184.htm

The State’s China Institute of Certified Public Accountants announced its goal for 2010 at a Party training workshop: to establish Party branches in every accounting firm in China. There are over 7,500 accounting firms in China with close to 90,000 practicing certified public accountants and close to 300,000 employees. However, only 14% of the accounting firms have Party branches and 11% of the employees are Party members. On October 18, 2009, a Party Commission was established for China’s CPA industry. Deputy Ministers of Finance have urged diligence and online courses in establishing a Party presence in the CPA firms.

Source: Huanqiu, November 23, 2009
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2009-11/640412.html
See also:
http://www.cicpa.org.cn/news/200911/t20091125_20032.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-11/25/content_12538678.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2009-11/26/content_12544990.htm

Wang Chen, Chief of the Information Office of the State Council, recently suggested that China has a very large “culture deficit” in its international exchange and distribution of culture. Chinese culture’s international power of influence is significantly behind China’s current world position and level of economic development. He delivered a speech at the Sixth Members Conference of the Translators Association of China. Wang believes translators have the “glorious” mission to deliver on the Party’s call for the enhancement of China’s “soft power” and the improvement of China’s international influence.

Source: Xinhua, November 15, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-11/15/content_12458166.htm 

According to Xinhua on November 22, 2009, Li Changchun, who is a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Political Bureau, made a speech during his visit to Guangzhou, Dong-wan, Shenzhen, etc. where he was accompanied by Wang Yang, the Party secretary of Guangdong Province from November 18 – 22, 2009.

Li Changchun stressed that the propaganda and ideological battlefront staff must conscientiously implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions, and propagandize our country’s successful practices in coping with the International financial crisis and in maintaining stable & rapid economic development, so as to mobilize and inspire a majority of the cadres and the masses to make an effort to achieve this year’s economic and social development goal.

Source: Xinhua, November 22, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-11/22/content_12521126.htm

People’s Daily recently published the full speech that Li Changchun gave at the Tenth Chinese Reporters Festival. Li is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party. He summarized the experience gained over the past 60 years: (1) Sticking to Party principles, always aligning with the Party Central Committee; (2) Always taking the “right public opinion guidance” as top priority; (3) Tightly combining the Party’s policies with the people’s thoughts; (4) Establishing a positive international “public opinion environment” by integrating internal and external propaganda; (5) Keeping up the reform of methods used to “occupy new battlefields” such as the Internet; (6) Enhancing and improving the Party’s control over media and making sure the media leadership is “tightly controlled” by the ones who are loyal to the Party.

Source: People’s Daily, November 9, 2009.
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1024/10338997.html