We are 171 loyal members of the Chinese Communist Party, from all manner of Party, government, military, and mass organizations. In view of the current, deeply abnormal state of inner-Party organizational life brought about by Comrade Xi Jinping's personal dictatorship and cult of personality, we are issuing this open letter to the whole Party, the whole military, and the people of the entire nation, for the time being without signing our names. Through this open letter, we wish to express our deep concern over the severe crisis now facing the cause of the Party and the people, and we demand that the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Central Military Commission, and the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress immediately convene an emergency meeting to discuss the serious problems of Xi Jinping's rampant promotion of a personality cult, his destruction of the rule of law in favor of personal dictatorship, his reckless foreign aid spending in disregard of domestic livelihoods, his disruption of the military that undermines the nation's own defenses, and his dissolute personal conduct that has tarnished the image of the Party and the state, and to immediately remove Comrade Xi Jinping from all his posts within and outside the Party, in order to save the cause of the Party and the people. Since taking power at the 18th Party Congress, Xi Jinping has committed one serious error after another, causing enormous damage to the cause of the Party and the people and posing a grave threat to it. Xi Jinping's serious errors fall into the following five categories: First, he has openly violated the Party constitution by tolerating and supporting a cult of personality around himself. Article 10, clause 6, of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China explicitly states: "The Party prohibits all forms of personality cult." Looking at the dozens of songs circulating online in praise of Xi Jinping, titles such as "If You Want to Be Somebody, Be Like Big Daddy Xi," "Words from Chairman Xi," "Big Daddy Xi Loves Mama Peng," "Follow the Leader, Xi Jinping," "If You Want to Marry, Marry Someone Like Big Daddy Xi," "The East Is Red Again," and so on, the lyrics are embarrassingly sycophantic, with "The East Is Red Again" even containing lines that flatly disregard Party history, such as "The East is red again, the sun rises again, Xi Jinping carries on from Mao Zedong." Such personality-cult songs about Xi Jinping have proliferated across the internet, which is inseparable from Xi Jinping's own tolerance and encouragement. More seriously still, Hunan Satellite TV produced the song "I Don't Know What to Call You" and openly broadcast this ode to Xi Jinping on mainstream television. And during the "Two Sessions," when the Party Secretary of Hunan Province flattered him with sycophantic praise over this very song, Xi Jinping happily accepted it. Even more intolerable, this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala went so far as to appoint the younger sister of Xi Jinping's wife, Peng Liyuan, as executive producer, turning this year's Gala into a propaganda showcase for the personality cult around Xi Jinping. This year's Gala was cursed by hundreds of millions of people, while only CCTV and other Party mouthpieces continued to sing its praises in complete disregard of the facts. Xi Jinping allows his flatterers to call him "Xi Dada" (roughly, "Big Daddy Xi", "dada" meaning father). Compare this to Comrade Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of reform and opening up, who, when society sang his praises, modestly called himself "a son of the Chinese people." For Xi Jinping to arrogate to himself the title "Dada" is an act of extraordinary arrogance, a flagrant violation of inner-Party ethics. Xi Jinping's cheerleader Hua Qianfang recently went so far as to publish an article openly advocating that "the country should now adopt lifelong tenure for its leader," a development that has left Party comrades deeply alarmed. Does Xi Jinping intend to become another Chairman Mao in his later years? Day in and day out, Xi Jinping demands that Party comrades observe political discipline, while he himself openly tramples on the single greatest rule of political discipline within the Party: the Party constitution itself!
Second, he has destroyed the rule of law in favor of personal dictatorship. Xi Jinping has abandoned the Party's principle of collective leadership by the Standing Committee, built on democratic centralism, and has instead seized power on a massive scale. Xi Jinping has established all manner of Central Leading Groups, appointing himself head of each one, severely disrupting the normal operation of the existing Party and government administrative system and undermining the spirit of the rule of law. The cautionary precedent of the "Cultural Revolution Leading Group" remains vivid in memory, yet Xi Jinping's rule-by-"team-leader" is running rampant once again. The legitimate powers of comrades including Premier Li Keqiang have been severely constrained and undermined. Party and government cadres at every level are left not knowing which way to turn. The rule-of-law environment built up since reform and opening up has been wantonly trampled by Xi Jinping's personal hunger for power. Third, he has recklessly spent on foreign aid while disregarding people's livelihoods at home. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has recklessly spent on foreign aid without regard for domestic livelihoods, provoking widespread public resentment and complaint, to the point that he has even earned the nickname "Great Cash Splasher." In the face of millions of impoverished children unable to attend school in our country, over a million demobilized soldiers living in dire poverty with no means of support, millions of steel and coal miners going unpaid, tens of millions of impoverished households, and the widespread phenomenon of ordinary Chinese people unable to afford medical care, unable to support themselves in old age, and unable to afford housing, Xi Jinping, in pursuit of a hollow international reputation, has, without any discussion by the Party Central Committee plenum and without approval from the National People's Congress, recklessly handed out foreign aid and arbitrarily written off other nations' debts to China, provoking a boiling wave of public anger. An article pleading with Xi Jinping and his wife to stop giving away money abroad went viral online, describing the defining features of Xi Jinping's foreign visits as: "handing out gift lists, showing off marital affection, and splashing cash everywhere." Compare this with the absurd policies through which Xi Jinping extracts money from his own countrymen, requiring retirees to pay into medical insurance, extending the retirement age for civil servants, while doling out tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid at a time. Has this not already reached the point of sheer madness?
Fourth, he has thrown the military into disarray, undermining the nation's own defenses. In order to personally seize control of the military, Comrade Xi Jinping, disregarding the military's actual conditions and history, and without any discussion or approval by a Party Central Committee plenum, unilaterally abolished the seven military regions and replaced them with five theater commands. The military is the guarantor of national stability; military reform must be fully discussed and approved by a Central Committee plenum! Yet Xi Jinping pressed ahead unilaterally, resulting in today's reality of low morale within the military and deep tensions among military comrades. Compared with the decade of turmoil the military suffered under Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, the problems caused by Xi Jinping's current military reform are even more serious. The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the Party's army and the people's army; it is not Xi Jinping's private armed force, not an "Army of the Xi Family." Under the banner of military reform, Xi Jinping has practiced favoritism, appointing and dismissing personnel at will. Recently, he even forced Comrade Liu Yuan, who had rendered great service in the military's anti-corruption campaign, into retirement. Military comrades no longer know what principle, if any, governs the appointment and promotion of military cadres. Fifth, his dissolute personal conduct has tarnished the image of the Party and the state. During Comrade Xi Jinping's time working in Fuzhou, his intimate relationship with Fuzhou television host Meng Xue was common knowledge locally, almost to the last person. This would ordinarily be a matter of his personal private life. But when a Hong Kong bookstore published a book titled Xi Jinping and His Six Women, he went so far as to mobilize the state's public security apparatus to abduct, across borders, every shareholder and employee of that Hong Kong bookstore, two of whom held British and Swedish citizenship, triggering an international outcry. The international community roundly condemned our government for trampling on the principle of "one country, two systems," sparking diplomatic disputes, and even the political groups in Hong Kong friendly to us felt a loss of face. That Xi Jinping's own dissolute personal conduct should tarnish the image of the Party and the state is something that cannot be tolerated!