Jiang Xieren

> People assume I'm the next Xi Jingping or something because I 'look like a Communist'. I assure you, my friend, I despised Winnie The Pooh's [Xi Jingping] regime as much as you or the next person did. The Haidean Republic will work to do better than the Communist filth who never saw the potential in this beautiful land. It's for the Fatherland. The Fatherland, I tell you.
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> - Jiang Xieren during an exclusive interview with the Chemgotan Federal News Network (CFNN), 2060.

**Jiang Xieren** was a former member of the People's Liberation Army turned revolutionary who would take charge of the partisan movement, "The Haidean Revolutionary Front" against a rapidly-deteriorating People's Republic of China which would later be known as the Haidean Revolution, which would pave the way for the collapse of the PRC and the formation of the Haidean Republic. Regarded as one of the most influential and possibly one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 21st century, Xieren served as the first President of the Haidean Republic from it's founding in 2058 until his death in 2063. During his time in office, he signed several historic agreements with the Chemgotan leadership as part of what he saw as a "great friendship between Haide and Chemgota". He also personally signed and passed new laws and bills that allowed the Haidean Republic to excel as a regional power by efficiently using it's reserves of oil and it's agriculture industry to allow Haide to become an economical power. Jiang Xieren was sometimes regarded as "The Righteous Supreme and Spiritual Leader of the Fatherland" and has so far been the first and only president to die in office. Xieren's popularity has since allowed him and his legacy to become a symbol of Haidean nationalism, pride and resistance against the Kuomintang Chinese government that replaced the Communists.

Since assuming power, Xieren introduced far-ranging measures to enforce national discipline and to impose internal unity amongst the Haidean public. His anti-corruption campaign led to the downfall of prominent CCP sympathisers . He also enacted or promoted a more passive-aggressive foreign policy, particularly with regard to the Haide-Chemgota and Haide-Periwan relations, Haidean claims in Manchuria, and its advocacy for free trade and globalization. He sought to expand Haidean influence throughout the globe by enacting the Haidean Relevance Initiative.

Until 2060, Xieren was often been described as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" by political and academic observers, citing that he was a new kind of dictator or an authoritarian leader, citing a restriction of certain rights regarding the LGBTQ+ community, a slight increase in surveillance, the internment of pro-Beijing activists, the cult of personality developing around him, and the removal of term limits for the leadership under his tenure. Xieren's political thoughts have been incorporated into the party and national constitutions. As the central figure of a first generation leadership of the Haidean Republic, Xieren significantly centralised institutional power by taking new steering committees on economic and social reforms, military restructuring and modernization, and having Haide become a leading Internet provider.

During Xieren's service as President, he made sure that Haide was to undergo a period of deepening ties between Haide and the rest of the world. Xieren approved numerous development projects, such as the New Jaimusi Project and ordered the 2060 Raid on Chinese Communist Sympathizers. He also created his autobiography/manifesto, "Not Mao's Little Red Book", where he expressed beliefs about a Manchuria being unified as one political entity under a Haidean administration, as well as his outspoken hatred towards the Chinese Communist Party of the former China.

## Early life

Jiang Xieren was born at the Maoming People's Hospital in Maoming, Guangdong Province on the 17th of December, 1998, to Zhenhao Xieren and Ai Hendao, who were strong supporters of the Chinese Communist Party. Xieren spent much of his childhood growing up in Shanghai, where the family relocated when he was one year old. He was enrolled in Shanghai Yucai Primary School in 2004, and went on to complete his studies in 2016, graduating from the prestigious Shanghai High School. The schools taught their attendees about a variety of topics as per usual, but the schools were also teaching students to praise Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, which Xieren thought was weird. Nonetheless, Xieren mostly received good marks in school, but he was so shy that few people knew he was intelligent.

In 2017, he enrolled at the Shanghai Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry. He excelled in a number of agriculture-related subjects, but rather enjoyed studying the extracurricular English and Russian language. He originally aspired to be an irrigation engineer, but his interest in military affairs intensified in 2019, when he decided to join the People's Liberation Army. Xieren also joined the Communist Youth League of China in 2021 by befriending a local official. When he finished school, Xieren considered studying irrigation engineering on scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, although he ultimately decided to stay and serve in the ranks of the PRC. He left the PLA in 2026, and decided to move and live a life in Harbin, with his partner, Liu Xuan and his first child, Wu Xieren.

## Rise to prominence

### Realisation of Chinese Communist control

From 2028 to 2032, Xieren studied theory and ideological education in Harbin University, graduating with a doctorate in law and ideology in 2032. Later in Harbin, Xieren made efforts to attract investment from Taiwan and to strengthen the private sector of the provincial economy. In February 2033, he began to notice several problems with the Chinese Communist Party after a two-week visit to the United States. He was exposed to the numerous human rights issues in mainland China that he later considered the government to be mishandling, including the death penalty, the political and legal status of Tibet, and the apparent neglect of freedom of the press in mainland China. Other areas of concern include the lack of legal recognition of human rights and the lack of an independent judiciary, rule of law, and due process.

Further issues raised in regard to human rights include the severe lack of worker's rights, the absence of labour unions independent of the CCP and allegations of discrimination against rural workers and ethnic minorities, as well as the lack of religious freedom. Rights groups had highlighted repression of the Christian, Tibetan Buddhist, Uyghur Muslim, and Falun Gong religious groups. Xieren praised the few Chinese activist groups are trying to expand these freedoms, including Human Rights in China, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, and the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. He soon felt the need to lash out against the CCP, and earn the repressed minorities the freedom they deserved.

### Protest organiser

Xieren joined the Chinese Civil Human Rights Front in 2034, and began to organise the first and second 2034 protests against the CCP, advocating for freedom between the 13th of April and the 2nd of May, and helped organise the protest march against a Chinese bill that would allow for the further repression of the Uyghur peoples on the 9th of June. The number of participants at these march exceeded his expectations. He and other organisers set out a target of 300,000 protesters, and he estimated that over a million people participated. Xieren began to realise that if he had accumulated the right people and start his own nationalist movement, he could possibly form a breakaway state from the PRC.

On the 13th of June, after the Chinese government's announcement of its intention to restart debating the bill, Xieren decided to organize another protest march on the 16th of June, which meant they had only three days to advertise it. He estimated that there were close to two million participants at the June 16th protest. Xieren noted that the CCHRF is unable to mobilise such large numbers of people to participate in protests, and that the high number of protesters in the 2034 protests was caused by public awareness and poor governance by the Chinese government. He described CCHRF's role in the protests as providing a platform for citizens to express their views. He said that CCHRF estimates participants at protests by counting the participants from footbridges. Xieren later organised the 1st of July march in 2035, demanding a full retraction of the repression bill and for President Xi Jingping to step down.

During this time, Xieren began to realise that if he had accumulated the right people and start his own nationalist movement, he could possibly form a breakaway state from the PRC that would steer well away from the virtues of Communism and prosper in their own way that would eventually make this state a regional if possible, or even a major power. This is where Jiang Xieren first began to come up with the ideas and concept of the Haidean Republic. He went on to create his own movement, the **Xieren Movement Towards a Liberated China**, which Xieren himself led. This subsequently, allowed Xieren to be taken to the attention of Chinese authorities and ultimately, Xi Jingping himself. Jingping declared Xieren a "pest in the traditional Chinese society that must be rid of immediately". Xieren's protesters often waved around Chinese flags where the stars were made to look like a swastika, comparing the Chinese Communist Party to the Nazis.

### Pro-Jingping attacks on XMTLC members

In the wake of the Chinese government's repression bill protests in Harbin, clashes between pro-Xieren protesters and counter-protesters had become more frequent since the movement began in June 2034. During a pro-police rally on the 30th of June, their supporters began directing profanities at their opposition counterparts, leading to intense confrontations between the two parties. Pro-Beijing citizens, wearing "I love Jingping" T-shirts and waving the Chinese national flag, assaulted people perceived to be protesters on 14 September in Jixi. Subway stations often became sites of conflict between the two groups, with pro-Beijing citizens attempting to tear down the messages or removing poster art. Some pro-Xieren protesters and pedestrians who were caught in the mix were often beaten and attacked with knives near shopping centres by anywhere from a single perpetrator to suspected gang members. A reporter was stabbed and a teenager distributing pro-protest leaflets had his abdomen slashed. Owners of small businesses seen to be supportive of Jiang Xieren's movement and their employees have been assaulted in suspected politically motivated attacks and their businesses vandalised.

Some civilians rammed their cars into crowds of protesters or the barricades they set up. In one instance, a female protester suffered severe thigh fractures. Protest organisers, including Xieren himself, were frequently assaulted and attacked. On 3 November, politician Fang Xiuha had a part of his nose bitten off by a Chinese mainlander who had reportedly knifed three other people outside Harbin. Meanwhile, a suspected pro-Xieren lawmaker Zhou Fenyang was stabbed and his parents' grave was desecrated.

## Arrests and imprisonment

On the 6th of January 2037, after hiding from the Chinese authorities for some time, Xieren was arrested along with more than 50 other prominent members of the Xieren Movement Towards a Liberated China in a police crackdown targeting "those who wish to cause chaos amongst Chinese society", accused of violating the national security law, and "conspiring to create political dissent in China". They were all accused of trying to "overthrow" the government and "subversion." Xieren was released on bail on the 7th of April.

On the 28th of February the following year, Xieren, along with 46 others, was formally charged with "subversion" and arrested again. On the 4th of March, he was denied bail and remained in prison. The following week, an upper court denied him bail again, citing national security risks. On the 29th of April, the High Court adjourned his third bail application until August after one-hour deliberation. Until then, Xieren would remain in custody. On the 12th of August, the High Court denied him bail and ordered him to remain in custody. Xieren at the time was facing a possible life sentence if he was to be convicted of national security offences. On the 13th May 2039, a High Court judge upheld her decision to deny bail to Xieren arguing that he was a "determined and resolute man" who is capable of bringing down the Chinese Communist Party if granted bail. Xieren described the conditions in prison as "unforgiving and inhumane".

### Piquing Igor Elmpt's interest

From Hegang Prison in 2040, Xieren continued to preach his Libertarian ideology to the masses, where his popularity further increased to the point where pro-Xieren protesters gathered frequently over a number of weeks to demand for Xieren's release from prison. Xieren regularly prepared speeches for senior members of his movement, with many of his ideas being inspired by the Chemgotan revolutionary Igor Elmpt, where he took Igor's Elmptist political ideologies and motivations and incorporated them into the speeches he prepared. The pro-Xieren and Elmptist propaganda that he would send out of prison would prove to ultimately be successful, with millions all over China to start protesting against Xi Jingping's regime, accusing him of corruption, the frequent consolidation of power, leading Jingping to become a "leader for life", the removal of the CCP's rivals, mass genocide against ethnic minorities, censorship, and much more. President Xingping addressed these sudden uprisings, calling those who followed Xieren's ideology "brainwashed degenerates who does not know right from wrong". Jingping would later order a string of military crackdowns on prominent members of the XMTLC, with those arrested immediately being sentenced to death for "high treason". Xieren responded to Jingping's crackdowns from prison, saying, "If Jingping is so sure my followers are 'brainwashed degenerates', why is he so very scared of my ideas spreading?"

Xieren's boldness in continuing to spread Elmptist and his own propaganda from inside prison piqued the interest of the recently re-elected Chemgotan President Igor Elmpt, who saw the Communist China as a "thorn in Asia's side that keeps increasing it's plaguing self". Igor had learned of Xieren's movement through various news outlets documenting on the anti-Jingping protests in the late 2030s. When Xieren's ideas being inspired from Elmptism began gaining traction throughout China, Igor praised Xieren for preaching his pro-Libertarian efforts from inside prison. Igor later went on to say, "If Xieren is going to plan a revolution in China in order to establish a free, independent state in China's northeast, the Republic of Chemgota will make sure that his movement will endure a swift and decisive victory against the Chinese Communist Party, which should motivate Taiwan to reclaim the Chinese mainland."

### Breakout from prison

By March 2041, more radical pro-Xieren followers began to create anti-Chinese militias, and claimed that Xieren was attempting to establish a breakaway government among his followers in China's northeast. By that point, the Chinese Communist Party had carried out some of the most brutal crackdowns upon pro-Xieren followers, and were close to capitulating the XMTLC's leadership. According to most accounts, future Vice President Jungfeng Xiao had been with heavily armed Xieren loyalists in several buildings in Lixing Village for several months as Chinese raids against any opposition against Xi Jingping intensified. Hao Yu, a member of Xieren's inner circle and leader of one of the more prominent pro-Xieren militias, said that they were planning to free Xieren from prison using more violent tactics. Attempts by the CCP to persuade the militias to give up Xieren's ideology were ignored.

On the 5th of May, 2041, a group of pro-Xieren militiamen approached the outskirts of Hegang prison, where they bribed Chinese officials to reveal the location in which Xieren was being imprisoned at. At around 9:12 PM, the militiamen left a small building where they were conducting recon surveillance activities near Ronghua Village and began to move across the field towards the West Wing of the prison, which was the area where Jiang Xieren was currently being held at the time. Half an hour later, it was said that the assailants had reached the West Wing of the prison, and were affixing a homemade bomb to blow out the wall close to Xieren's cell. During the time the rebels spent attaching the IED to the wall, Xieren was yelling out to the other prisoners, preaching his Elmptist-inspired ideology.

The explosive was detonated at around 9:30, creating a massive hole in the wall, leading to the prisoner's common area. This caused much confusion, panic and chaos amongst the prisoners. Prison guards were quick to respond to the explosion, where an armed riot unit was dispatched towards the West Wing. As soon as the riot team arrived, they immediately engaged in a firefight against the Pro-Xieren militiamen, where the unit suffered heavy casualties. During the chaos, Xieren was able to escape his cell, and upon noticing this, the assailants fled the prison with Xieren and several political associates he made in prison.

## Exile and planning

After breaking out from Hegang prison, Xieren exiled himself to Chemgota along with other compatriots, where they would start to devise plans for a revolt to happen in Heilongjiang, hopefully attaining independence from the PRC.

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