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Beijing may have experienced an attempted military coup

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Boxun exclusive news from well-informed sources in Beijing: Officers of the Ninth Bureau of the Beijing Central Guards Unit (also known as Unit 8341) planned a military coup to overthrow Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. The coup-leading Ninth Bureau officers schemed to place Xi, anti-corruption chief Wang Qishan and other central leaders under house arrest, but Xi took preemptive measures and gained the upper hand. The Security Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee is familiarly referred to as the Ninth Bureau, responsible for the security of new and old Politburo Standing Committee members. On March 3rd, the second day of the annual “Two Sessions” parliamentary meetings (National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference), more than 300 Ninth Bureau officers at battalion level and higher surrendered their weapons and are undergoing a military coup investigation.


Boxun did not get confirmation from other sources, but confirmed that the director of Unit 8341, Cao Qing, was transferred to the Beijing Military Region. His new position is vice political commissar of the region.

Some of the following reports have not been confirmed by official news:
In October 2014, Xi Jinping proposed a personnel restructuring of the Central Military Commission. This resulted in the former Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat Huo Ke deliberately making a fool of Xi Jinping at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee with unscripted (in the Secretariat’s final printed program) content. Huo Ke was subsequently demoted to deputy director of the China National Tourism Administration. Xi then altered the personnel plan of the Central Military Commission, deepening its reform and restructuring. Generals Liu Yuan and Cai Yingting, Xi Jinping’s primary allies in the army, were blocked at the exit of the Central Military Commission by General and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Fan Changlong, Defense Minister Chang Wanquan, and retired General and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong (Guo and his son Major General Guo Zhenggang are under investigation for corruption) and other high-ranking military officials.

At the 75th anniversary of the historic Gutian Conference in November 2014, Xi Jinping pledged to thoroughly eliminate the toxic influence of former General and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou (Xu was arrested for taking bribes in 2014). Huo Ke was taken into custody in January 2015.

Xu Caihou, Guo Boxiong’s son Guo Zhenggang and more than a dozen other generals were arrested and transferred, indicating that Xi is still far from having completely consolidated military power. Xi Jinping had no choice but to assume full responsibility for the Central Military Commission’s operations. This, together with Xi’s other centralization of decision making, is the result of the complex political situation.

In March 2014 Boxun exclusively revealed that Defense Minister Chang Wanquan would be the next big “tiger” targeted in Xi’s anti-corruption campaign. General and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Fan Changlong, Defense Minister Chang Wanquan and others, fearing they’d be framed, contacted former Communist Party leader Hu Jintao and his top aide Zeng Qinghong to discuss launching a coup against Xi Jinping. But this coup-in-planning was discovered by Xi Jinping. Boxun learned that the coup planners hoped to use the same plan as that used to arrest the Gang of Four. Use the Central Guards Unit (Unit 8341), and on Tuesday March 3, 2015, during the “Two Sessions” parliamentary meetings, arrest Xi Jinping, Wang Qishan and other leaders.

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