By Chen Jing
Overseas Chinese critics such as Cai Xia and Hu Liren have long described Xi Jinping’s rule as “accelerating the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party.” That judgment is accurate—but incomplete. It captures the symptoms, not the disease.
The deeper reality is that Xi Jinping and the CCP have already fused into a single terminal organism. They are mutually parasitic hosts, locked in irreversible dependence. In order to secure absolute power and impose hereditary rule, Xi has embraced the Party as one clings to a dead ancestral tablet—knowing it is doomed, yet unable to let go.
Xi’s historical role is not to reform the CCP but to finish it. He is the final “executor” of the Party-state machine. Yet he will not survive its destruction. Xi is not external to the system; he is one of its sworn members. He, too, pledged the same oath.
Many observers focus on how Xi uses the CCP to eliminate rivals. What they miss is far more unsettling: the CCP itself—a Western-imported ideological specter—is using Xi as its instrument to demand payment from everyone who ever swore loyalty to it.
From repressing society to purging the Party elite
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For decades, the CCP’s primary victims appeared to be ordinary citizens—the endlessly harvested “chives” of popular slang—while Party elites enjoyed near-total immunity. That era is over.
The blade has turned upward. The targets are no longer merely dissidents or low-level cadres, but the Party’s own senior leadership and hereditary red aristocracy. The recent, officially announced downfall of military powerbrokers Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli shattered lingering illusions. Even “princelings”—the children of revolutionary families—have been forced to confront a grim truth.
Xi Jinping may disregard established norms, but this is not simply a matter of rule-breaking.
Zhang and Liu did not merely lose a factional struggle. They were considered “hard bones” of the system—men who stabilized and protected the Party’s coercive core. If even such figures can be discarded, the implication is unmistakable.
Within a demonic contract, there are no loyalists—only sacrifices.
The CCP’s ideological nature: a ‘specter’ that demands total sacrifice
The CCP openly defines its own nature. The Communist Manifesto begins by proclaiming communism a “specter haunting Europe.” Taken seriously, this is not a metaphor but a confession.
From a spiritual perspective, the CCP functions as an anti-divine, anti-human cult. When such an entity faces dissolution, it does not withdraw quietly. It seeks to drag every sworn follower with it—elite and rank-and-file alike—turning them into burial offerings for its collapse.
The Party does not distinguish between victims and beneficiaries. All who pledged themselves are claimed.
Why is Xi Jinping purging indiscriminately? Why are even the Party’s most privileged now expendable?
The answer lies in a ritual so familiar that most people ceased to take it seriously.
When joining the Young Pioneers, the Communist Youth League, or the Chinese Communist Party, members raise their right hand before a blood-red flag and swear to “dedicate everything to the Party at all times.” To many, this is ceremonial language. In reality, it is a binding declaration.
“Everything” means exactly that. Your labor, your property, your dignity—and ultimately your life—are no longer your own. They are pledged to the Party.
During periods of stability, the CCP demanded only obedience and productivity. Now, as it enters systemic collapse, it is enforcing the contract in full. The purges of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli are not aberrations; they are compulsory executions of a deferred obligation.
Xi Jinping is not acting arbitrarily. He is the designated agent enforcing a collective death contract.
Those who cannot believe that Zhang—once commanding real military authority—could be so easily removed are still clinging to the illusion that this oath was symbolic, or that power provides exemption.
Silence inside the People’s Liberation Army signals systemic breakdown
An abnormal stillness now grips the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Senior officers have largely refused to publicly declare loyalty. They understand the dilemma with brutal clarity: affirming loyalty invites death, but silence offers no protection either.
The procedural irregularities surrounding Zhang Youxia’s removal have become a pretext for passive resistance. Yet this paralysis cannot last.
The current stalemate exists because Zhang’s fall tore open a fissure in the system. That fissure is a temporary window—perhaps the last—left for those who have not yet grasped the nature of the trap.
This period is not an opportunity to spectate elite infighting. It is a chance to decide whether to survive.
The CCP is a sinking Titanic. It seeks to use the oath as a chain, locking every passenger below deck and dragging them down together—to ideological hell, to meet Marx.
The ‘Three Withdrawals’ movement and twenty-six years of warning
This reality clarifies a question that has lingered for more than twenty-six years. Why have certain spiritual practitioners persisted—despite persecution, exile, and death—in urging people to withdraw from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers?
Many dismiss this as political activism or factional maneuvering. That interpretation reveals only worldly misunderstanding.
Zhuangzi once wrote that the phoenix perches only on the paulownia tree and eats only bamboo fruit. The owl, clutching rotten meat, imagines the phoenix covets it. To cultivators, worldly power and political authority are that rotten flesh. What motivates them is compassion and reverence for universal law.
Their insistence over twenty-six years serves one purpose: to help individuals dissolve the poison oath.
They understand that life is the most precious force in the universe—and that the CCP’s defining feature is its contempt for life. Urging withdrawal is not about recruitment or regime change. It is about removing the mark of the beast before the red walls fall, severing the chain before it tightens.
A final warning to Party insiders as the window rapidly closes
The fate of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli is not an isolated episode. It is the final alarm for everyone still inside the system.
Do not assume that passive compliance will save you. Do not console yourself with the thought that you merely followed the crowd. The oath was real. The cost of honoring it is total.
The window is open—but closing rapidly.
As the CCP’s political meat grinder convulses toward collapse, the choice is stark: remain its fuel and burial offering, or heed the warning that has endured for twenty-six years, declare your withdrawal, and reclaim your life and future while it is still possible.
