Commentary A pro-Beijing Chinese language news portal recently published a series of articles, commemorating “the 30th Year of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour.” As of Jan. 27, at least nine articles have been published on Beijing-based DW News on Deng’s south tour, which Deng intentionally conducted to voice his policies of the socialist market economy amid intensifying infighting in 1992. He Qinglian, a Chinese author and economist now living in the United States, noted in her Chinese-language commentary on Jan. 25 that these articles signal Xi Jinping’s plan to target the Jiang Zemin faction and his crony Zeng Qinghong, who were the last remaining force in the CCP that could challenge him. In her article, He said that many of the DW News articles mentioned Jiang, pointing out that Jiang was not only corrupt but that he was also opposed to Deng’s reform. “This was the first time Jiang Zemin was …