The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.
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Meng the Regent
Mèng Jiānguó 孟监国
Meng Jianzhu, who according to Guo Wengui, has “practically become […] the shadow emperor of China.” (Source: Wikipedia)
In his September 1, 2017 YouTube video, Guo Wengui, an exiled billionaire with known ties to former top Chinese intelligence officials, laid out an unorthodox explanation for Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign. In the video, Guo alleged that former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and his closest political allies (under the direct guidance of Jiang’s son Jiang Mianheng) had been orchestrating much of Xi’s campaign to take revenge on both traitors to the Jiang family, and on adversaries representing other Party factions. Guo described the origins of a close friendship between Jiang Mianheng and Meng Jianzhu, and claimed that Meng had “practically become China’s shadow emperor and the speaker for the Jiang family” (孟建柱书记成为一国之几乎要影子皇帝实实在在的江家的代言人).
In the video, Guo also claimed that Xi Jinping’s appointment to President and General Secretary of the Party in 2012 came on the condition that Meng Jianzhu would be seated as the Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. This position effectively granted Meng control over all of China’s non-military security apparatus, and according to Guo, allowed the Jiang family faction an enormous amount of control over Party and state affairs and the conduct of President Xi Jinping. Guo claimed:
Following secretary Meng Jianzhu becoming the Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the role of this post changed from simply protecting the security of society and the old revolutionaries to also being part of a political package with Xi becoming General Secretary and Chairman. This is where the word “Meng the Regent” comes from!
由孟建柱书记作为政法委书记，由公安部长一定升为政法委书记，从过去的叫保住社会和老革命的安全改变为同时决定了由习主席作为有交易的当总书记当主席，由孟建柱书记作为监国。孟监国这个词就是这么来的！[Chinese]
See also CDT’s extended translation of the transcript for Guo Wengui’s September 1, 2017 YouTube video exposé.
