Speculation about Xi Jinping being placed under house arrest takes place

Speculation about Chinese President Xi Jinping being placed under house arrest has taken over social media. Rumours are saying that Xi has been removed as the Chief of China's People's Liberation Army PLA and China's capital, Beijing, is currently under the army's control.

This comes a day after a former top security official was sentenced by the Chinese court to life in prison. He was believed to be part of the anti-Xi political clique Another two people associated with the group were similarly given suspended death sentences and three others received lengthy prison terms this week.

Other rumours on the Internet include Li Qiaoming, the General who is serving for the Chinese PLA, who has replaced Xi Jinping as China's ruler.

There is no official confirmation from the Chinese Communist Party or the state media about these rumours.

A Chinese human rights activist Jennifer Zeng, who is now living in the US, shared a video on Twitter and claimed the PLA was moving toward Beijing.

The whole procession is as long as 80 KM from Huanlai County near Beijing, ending in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. It has been reported that XiJinping was arrested after CCP seniors removed him as head of the PLA. There are also rumours that both international and domestic flights to and from Beijing have been halted and the city has been cut off from the rest of the world. More than 60 per cent of flights in China were grounded on Friday, according to rumours.

Gordon Chang, a Chinese author who lives in the US, replied to Zeng's tweet and wrote: This video of military vehicles moving to Beijing comes immediately after the grounding of 59% of the flights in the country and the jailing of senior officials. There is a lot of smoke in the CCP, which means there is a fire somewhere in it. Among Indians, BJP s Subramanian Swamy took to Twitter and wrote: New rumour to be checked out: Is Xi Jinping under house arrest in Beijing? When Xi arrived in Samarkand recently, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party had to remove Xi from the Party's in charge of the Army. Then there was house arrest. So goes the rumour,