At the sensitive moment of the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Party media recently called on 70 million CCP members to adhere to “Four Principles of Deference” and rehashed the historical struggle over the lines of Wang Ming and Zhang Guotao, former senior CCP leaders. It’s believed that this is an insinuation of anti-Xi forces threatening Xi Jinping’s reign. On June 24, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) published an article titled “The Origin of the Four Principles of Deference” on its website. As stipulated in the CCP Constitution, the four principles are: Individual Party members defer to Party organizations, the minority defers to the majority, lower-level Party organizations defer to higher-level Party organizations, and all organizations and members of the Party defer to the National Congress and the Central Committee of the Party. The article emphasized that the fundamental principle of the Four Principles is …