China’s Underground Empire “Splinters”: Why Must She Zhijiang Die While Chen Zhi Is Protected

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China’s Underground Empire “Splinters”: Why Must She Zhijiang Die While Chen Zhi Is Protected?

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4 Hours — from hope to a secret death sentence 03:07 A life-and-death bargain 05:56 She zhijiang must die, chen zhi must live 12:40 The ministry of public security “snatches” the case from state security She Zhijiang appeared at Bangkok’s airport looking alert, walking steadily, his eyes filled with defiance. Yet just four hours later, when the chartered plane touched down in Nanjing, the 56-year-old man looked completely different—his face pale, his eyes vacant, his steps unsteady as if he needed to be held up on both sides. From someone confident enough to declare, “I will absolutely never commit suicide,” She Zhijiang had turned into a hollow, shaken figure. What happened during those four hours on that plane? That question lingers hauntingly: What exactly took place in those four hours in the sky? Why did a man who had boldly insisted he would never take his own life end up looking broken, drained, like an empty shell? The extradition of She Zhijiang from Thailand to China was clearly far more than a routine legal process. Behind it was a life-and-death political transaction—one in which a man was destined to die in order to protect an entire network of power.