You can wake a person who is asleep, but you can never wake a person who is only pretending to be.
Che Zhiqiang was not a member of the Standing Committee, so he had no right to attend the meeting. He could only pin all his hopes on Fanzhi Wen. Fanzhi Wen had agreed quite readily, stating clearly that he would do his absolute best to fight for him. However, when Ping Hongzhen convened and presided over the meeting to discuss the matter of Che Zhiqiang’s transfer, Fanzhi Wen did not utter a single word.
This was not out of cowardice. If you were attacking my own people, then I would certainly argue tooth and nail. But you were attacking someone else—so what did that have to do with me, Fanzhi Wen?
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