Beijing is festooned with red banners urging citizens to “resolutely root out black and evil forces”
to eradicate criminal gangs, Chinese officials deploy a colourful vocabulary. . Other banners mix metaphors. “Dig deep and thoroughly investigate the protective umbrellas” of such menaces, says one.
In January 2018 China’s leader, Xi Jinping, launched a three-year campaign against organised crime. State media brim with reports of success. The authorities in Zhanjiang, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, claim to have dealt an effective blow to “vehicle tyrants” , “sand tyrants” , “sea tyrants” and “basket tyrants” . So far more than 10,000 alleged gangsters have been brought to trial across the country.
A cartoon released by police in Zhaoqing, another city in Guangdong, gives an example. It shows what appears to be a Buddhist leader, judging by the decor and the kowtowing of his followers. He talks of establishing an “ideal country where we can do what we want”. Next he is shown leading protesters outside a government building. In the final scene he counts piles of banknotes. “The goal of an independent kingdom is getting ever closer,” he chortles, before police burst in.
Other examples given by state media relate to political control in the countryside. They include clans that “lord over” rural areas and the often-related issue of gangs that rig the vote in grassroots elections . Perhaps not surprisingly, the gangs that help developers and officials to evict people from their homes are not mentioned as targets of the campaign. Rather, it is black and evil forces that “whip up unrest” during demolitions that are to be crushed.
Since he took over as China’s leader in 2012, Mr Xi has been waging a campaign against corruption as well as perceived political threats to the party in the form of independent lawyers, unauthorised religious activity and dissidents generally. It may seem surprising, then, that more than six years later—amid a climate of fear that pervades officialdom and stifles most of the party’s critics—the party still sees so many threats to its control.
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